Gordon Walker

Energy and Rhythm

Rhythmanalysis for a Low Carbon Future

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: RLPG/Galleys
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9781786613356
• ISBN-10: 1786613352
• Artikelnr.: 60012618

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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