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Informationen zum Autor Gordon Walker is Professor at the Lancaster Environment Centre and until recently Co-Director of the DEMAND (Dynamics of Energy, Mobility and Demand) Centre. He has a profile of research on the social and spatial dimensions of environment, energy and sustainability issues. This includes work on environmental and energy justice; social practice, sociotechnical transitions and energy demand; community engagement with renewable energy technologies. Books include sole-authored 'Environmental Justice: concepts, evidence and politics' (2012); the co-authored 'Energy and Society: a critical perspective' (2018); and co-edited 'Routledge Handbook of Environmental Justice' (2017) and 'Demanding Energy: Space, Time and Change' (2018). Klappentext This is a novel and far reaching polyrhythmic theorisation of our collective living with energy in its many natural and technological forms. It provides a distinctive understanding of the urgent challenges of transforming future energy systems into more just and lower carbon configurations. Zusammenfassung This is a novel and far reaching polyrhythmic theorisation of our collective living with energy in its many natural and technological forms. It provides a distinctive understanding of the urgent challenges of transforming future energy systems into more just and lower carbon configurations. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction: Energy and Rhythm Together Chapter 2 Rhythm and Rhythmanalysis: Interpretation and Foundation Chapter 3 Energetic Rhythms: Thermodynamics and Rhythmanalysis Chapter 4: Solar and Social Rhythms: Light, Heat and Polyrhythmic Change Chapter 5: Rhythms in Energy Systems: Grid Electricity and Big (Carbon) Power Chapter 6: Low Carbon Rhythms and Electricity Systems in Polyrhythmic Transition Chapter 7 Rhythms without Techno-energies: Bodies, Homes and Cities
