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Transportation and the Culture of Climate Change : Accelerating Ride to Global Crisis /
"This interdisciplinary collection of eleven original essays focuses on the environmental impact of transportation, which is, as Tatiana Prorokova-Konrad and Brian C. Black note in their introduction, responsible for 26 percent of global energy use. Approaching mobility not solely as a material...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Morgantown :
West Virginia University Press,
2020.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Energy and society.
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "This interdisciplinary collection of eleven original essays focuses on the environmental impact of transportation, which is, as Tatiana Prorokova-Konrad and Brian C. Black note in their introduction, responsible for 26 percent of global energy use. Approaching mobility not solely as a material, logistical question but as a phenomenon mediated by culture, the book interrogates popular assumptions deeply entangled with energy choices. Rethinking transportation, the contributors argue, necessarily involves fundamental understandings of consumption, freedom, and self"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (274 pages). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781949199659 |