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 is assistant research scientist and adjunct professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Georgia.
John Schelhas is research forester with the Southern Research Station of the USDA Forest Service.
J. Peter Brosius is distinguished research professor of anthropology at the University of Georgia and founding director of the University of Georgia's Center for Integrative Conservation Research.

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