Challenging Legitimacy at the Precipice of Energy Calamity

• Main Authors: Davidson, Debra J. (Author), Gismondi, Mike (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2011.
• Edition: 1.
• Subjects: Environment.; Energy policy.; Energy and state.; Political science.; Mineral resources.; Climate change.; Environment, general.; Energy Policy, Economics and Management.; Climate Change.; Mineral Resources.; Political Science.

Two intersecting moments of the Twenty-first Century define our politics, economies, and future prospects for civilization: the mounting evidence for global climate change, now unequivocally attributed to socio-economic activities, and its de-stabilizing effects on our biosphere, combined with the e...

Table of Contents:

• Look Who's Talking
• Observing Global Flows
• Visualizing the Tar Sands Through Time
• Capital, Labour, and the State
• Ecological Disruption
• Energy Matters
• Lessons from the Study
• A View from the Future
• Index.