James Goodman, Stuart Rosewarne, Linda Connor, Devleena Ghosh, Kanchi Kohli, Jonathan Paul Marshall, Manju Menon, Katja Mueller, Tom Morton, Rebecca Pearse

Beyond the Coal Rush

A Turning Point for Global Energy and Climate Policy?

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Produktbeschreibung

Climate change makes fossil fuels unburnable, but how can the world stop mining coal - the worst source of greenhouse gas emissions?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: European Community
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 171mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 628g
• ISBN-13: 9781108479820
• ISBN-10: 1108479820
• Artikelnr.: 59991102

Autorenporträt

James Goodman (convening author) is professor and director of the Climate Justice Research Centre at the University of Technology Sydney. He researches global politics, socio-cultural change, and climate justice. He has co-authored five books, including Justice Globalism (Sage, 2013) and Climate Upsurge: An Ethnography of Climate Movement Politics (Routledge, 2014), and has co-edited seven volumes.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1. The Global Contest over Coal and Development
Chapter 2. India: Coercion, Impunity and the Fight for Adivasi Rights in Chhattisgarh
Chapter 3. Australia: Contesting Coal Capital on the Liverpool Plains
Chapter 4. Germany: Globalizing the Local to Reach the National, Protest against Coal in the Lausitz
Chapter 5. Foundations for the Coal Rush: The post-War 'Coal-Industrial Complex'
Chapter 6. Kyoto and the Coal Boom: Coal's Climate Contradictions
Chapter 7. Coal in a Climate-constrained World: the Last Gasp?
Chapter 8. Concluding Chapter: Dynamics for a Post-Coal Future
Bibliography
Index.