Electric mountains : climate, power, and justice in an energy transition / Shaun A. Golding

By:

Golding, Shaun A [VerfasserIn]

Resource type: Ressourcentyp: BuchBookLanguage: English Series: Nature, society, and culturePublisher: New Brunswick ; Camden ; Newark, New Jersey ; London : Rutgers University Press, [2021]Copyright date: © 2021Description: xiii, 285 Seiten : IllustrationenISBN:

9781978820685
9781978820692
9781978820722

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Additional physical formats: 9781978820708 | 9781978820715 | Erscheint auch als: Electric mountains. Online-Ausgabe New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2021. 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 285 Seiten)DDC classification:

333.790973

RVK: RVK: NW 2708LOC classification:

HD9502.U5

Summary: "Climate change has shifted from future menace to current event. As eco-conscious electricity consumers, we want to do our part in weening from fossil fuels, but what are we actually a part of? Committed environmentalists in one of North America's most progressive regions desperately wanted energy policies that address the climate crisis. For many of them, wind turbines on Northern New England's iconic ridgelines symbolize the energy transition that they have long hoped to see. For others, however, ridgeline wind takes on a very different meaning. When weighing its costs and benefits locally and globally, some wind opponents now see the graceful structures as symbols of corrupted energy politics. This book derives from several years of research to make sense of how wind turbines have so starkly split a community of environmentalists, as well as several communities. In doing so, it casts a critical light on the roadmap for energy transition that Northern New England's ridgeline wind projects demarcate. It outlines how ridgeline wind conforms to antiquated social structures propping up corporate energy interests, to the detriment of the swift de-carbonizing and equitable transformation that climate predictions warrant. It suggests, therefore, that the energy transition of which most of us are a part, is probably not the transition we would have designed ourselves, if we had been asked"--Call number: Grundsignatur: 2023 A 437PPN: PPN: 173836819X

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Item type	Home library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Handbibliothek	ITAS	Handbibliothek (Ausleihe und Einsicht nicht möglich)	2023 A 437	Checked out Ausleihe und Einsicht nicht möglich	09.04.2046	53720200090

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