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Informationen zum Autor Laura Nader is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, and a member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences. Nader's books include Naked Science : Anthropological Inquiry into Boundaries, Power and Knowledge (1996), The Life of the Law (2002), and, with Ugo Mattei, Plunder-When the Rule of Law is Illegal (Blackwell, 2008). Her films To Make the Balance and a later PBS film Little Injustices are widely disseminated. Klappentext The Energy Reader examines the quandary of meeting future energy needs, bringing a unique critical approach to this complex global challenge and its potentially dire implications. It evaluates the social and cultural components of the energy problem in addition to the technological issues, and differentiates long-term perspectives from short term fixes presenting readers with a truly holistic approach to energy. In this insightful book a wide range of experts address the overall energy problem, the politics of energy, the protection of future generations, the avoidance of dangerous waste products, efficiency, resilience, and democratic relevance. These cross-disciplinary critical perspectives are presented by respected social scientists, physicists, economists, business experts, engineers, journalists, historians, and entrepreneurs. They illuminate the key historical trends in energy development and demonstrate new and sometimes controversial solutions-they tell us what can and will work with respect to current and future energy policies. The Energy Reader offers thought-provoking insights into the global energy strategies necessary for humanity's future. "Overall, The Energy Reader provides a necessary, timely, and unique collection of materials to drive these critical conversations forward." ( Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment , 12 June 2013) Zusammenfassung The Energy Reader presents a series of readings that examine the energy problem from an anthropological perspective and look at energy holistically! including social and cultural components and long term implications for global and social environmental change. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures. List of Tables. Preface ( Laura Nader ). Acknowledgments. Introduction ( Laura Nader, Leticia Cesarino, and Chris Hebdon ). Part I: The Energy Problem. 1. Social Power and the Future ( Richard Newbold Adams ). 2. Energy and the Rise of American Industrial Society ( Ian Barbour, Harvey Brooks, Sanford Lakoff, and John Opie ). 3. Energy Transitions in Historical Perspective ( Martin Melosi ). Energy in Action 1: Contemplating the Abyss: The Role of Environmental Degradation in the Collapse of Human Societies ( William Rees ). 4. Introduction to the Steady-State Economy ( Herman E. Daly ). Energy in Action 2: Net-Zero Energy Home Generating an Energy Surplus. 5. Dimensions of the "People Problem" in Energy Research and "the" Factual Basis of Dispersed Energy Futures ( Laura Nader and Norman Milleron ). 6. Red Land and Uranium Mining: How the Search for Energy Is Endangering Indian Tribal Lands ( Winona La Duke ). Energy in Action 3: How Energy Search Challenges Indian Tribal Life ( Mark Stevens ). 7. The House that Uranium Built: Perspectives on the Effects of Exposure on Individuals and Community ( Margaret Amalia Hiesinger ). 8. Uranium Mining and Milling: Navajo Experiences in the American Southwest ( Barbara Rose Johnston, Susan E. Dawson, and Gary E. Madsen ). Part II: Mind-Sets - a Critical Perspective. 9. "Introduction," The Idea of Progress: An Inquiry Into Its Origin and Growth ( Charles A. Beard ). 10. On the Road to Riches ( Henry Ford ). 11. Energy St...
