Forests As Fuel - Energy, Landscape, Climate, and Race in the U.s. South

Forests as Fuel uses extensive multi-sited ethnography to address the complexities of bioenergy development, highlighting the impacts of varying perceptions of climate change in rural, forest- dependent communities within the US South.

List of contents

Foreword
J. Marshall Shepherd
Introduction Bioenergy Stories at the Intersection of Energy, Landscape, Race, and Climate in the U.S. South
Chapter 2 What People Hear and What People Say about Bioenergy: Translating Bioenergy Narratives, Imaginaries, and Metaphors
Chapter 3 Bioenergy Landscapes: Impacts of Bioenergy Developments on Forest-Dependent Communities in the U.S. South
Chapter 4 What's Climate Change Got to Do with It?: The Relevance (Or Not) of Climate Change to Perceptions of Bioenergy
Chapter 5 "The South Be the South": How Bioenergy Development Illustrates and Affects
Racial Dynamics in the U.S. South
Conclusion A New Bioenergy Imaginary in the U.S. South

About the author

Sarah Hitchner, John Schelhas, J. Peter Brosius

Summary

Forests as Fuel uses extensive multi-sited ethnography to address the complexities of bioenergy development, highlighting the impacts of varying perceptions of climate change in rural, forest- dependent communities within the US South.

Product details

• Authors: J. Peter Brosius, Brosius J. Peter, Sarah Hitchner, Sarah Schelhas Hitchner, John Schelhas, Schelhas John
• Assisted by: James Marshall Shepherd (Foreword)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2023
• EAN: 9781793632364
• ISBN: 978-1-79363-236-4
• No. of pages: 252
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Forests & Rainforests, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Forests, rainforests, Alternative & renewable energy sources & technology, Central Southern States, Alternative and renewable energy sources and technology, US South, Forests and woodland