Climate Justice and Community Renewal (eBook, PDF)

Resistance and Grassroots Solutions
Redaktion: Tokar, Brian; Gilbertson, Tamra

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together the voices of people from five continents who live, work and research on the front lines of climate resistance and renewal. It will appeal to students, researchers, activists, and all who appreciate the need for a truly justice-centered response to escalating climate disruptions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000049176
• Artikelnr.: 58987835

Autorenporträt

Brian Tokar is a Lecturer in Environmental Studies at the University of Vermont, USA, and the author and editor of six previous books on environmental issues and movements. Tamra L Gilbertson is the climate change and forest policy advisor of the Indigenous Environmental Network. She is currently a lecturer at the University of Tennessee, Department of Sociology, where she completed her PhD. She works in the nexus of environmental, climate and social justice, social movements, and extractive industry research, as well as carbon pricing, forests, and land related to development policies.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Climate Impacts, Extractivism, and Land Defense 1. The Climate
Abuse of Climate Inaction 2. Grassroots Megadam Resistance at Muskrat
Falls, Labrador 3. Petroleum and Eucalyptus Monoculture in Brazil: The
Vicious Cycle of Climate Change 4. Moving Away from State and Capital:
Climate Change, Hegemony and Resistance in Indian Forests 5. Sea Level
Rise, Marshall Islands, and Environmental Justice 6.Resistance is Fertile:
Direct Action vs. Fossil Fuels across North America 7. Resistance to REDD:
Lessons from the Ground 8. African Climate Justice Part 2: Reclaiming
Community 9. Hurricane María, Agroecology, and Climate Change Resiliency
10. Small is Beautiful 11.The Unsettling of Detroit 12. Indigenous Just
Transition: Reflections from the Field 13. An Ecofeminist Analysis of
Grassroots Activism for a Just Transition from Capitalism to Commons 14.
"Green City" Initiatives in Europe 15.Energy Democracy in the Northeastern
U.S.