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Ending the Fossil Fuel Era /

Not so long ago, people North and South had little reason to believe that wealth from oil, gas, and coal brought anything but great prosperity. But the presumption of net benefits from fossil fuels is eroding as widening circles of people rich and poor experience the downside. A positive transition...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Martin, Pamela, 1971- (Editor ), Manno, Jack (Editor ), Princen, Thomas, 1951- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London, England : The MIT Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The problem / Thomas Princen, Jack P. Manno, and Pamela L. Martin
  • The biophysical : the decline in energy returned on energy invested, net energy, and marginal benefits / Jack P. Manno and Stephen B. Balogh
  • The cultural : the magic, the vision, the power / Thomas Princen
  • The ethical : a fossil fuel ethic / Thomas Princen
  • Leaving oil under the Amazon : the Yasuní-ITT initiative as a postpetroleum model? / Pamela L. Martin
  • Appalachia coal : the campaign to end mountaintop removal mining / Laura A. Bozzi
  • El Salvador gold : toward a mining ban / Robin Broad and John Cavanagh
  • Slowing uranium in Australia : lessons for urgent transition beyond coal, gas, and oil / James Goodman and Stuart Rosewarne
  • The future would have to give way to the past : Germany and the coal dilemma / Tom Morton
  • Heating up and cooling down the petrostate : the Norwegian experience / Helge Ryggvik and Berit Kristoffersen
  • The good life (sumak kawsay) and the good mind (ganigonhi:oh) : indigenous values and keeping fossil fuels in the ground / Jack P. Manno and Pamela L. Martin
  • Exit strategies / Thomas Princen and Adele Santana
  • On the way down : fossil fuel politics in the twenty-first century / Thomas Princen, Jack P. Manno, and Pamela L. Martin.