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This work executes a unique transdisciplinary methodology building on the author’s previous book, A User’s Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: And How to Save it (Pluto, 2010), which was the first peer-reviewed study to establish a social science framework for the integrated analysis of crises acro...

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Κύριος συγγραφέας: Ahmed, Nafeez Mosaddeq (Συγγραφέας)
Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
Σειρά:SpringerBriefs in Energy,
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • Introduction
  • Riot Epidemic: State Failure, or System Failure?
  • The Matrix: How Fossil Fuel Interests Dominate Corporate Media Reporting on Energy and Climate Change
  • Failed Forecasts: How the Media’s Pro-Fossil Fuel Bias Ruins Energy Journalism
  • Oil Depletion as Strategic Threat, MENA
  • Oil Depletion as Strategic Threat, Europe
  • Oil Depletion as Strategic Threat, Asia
  • Oil Depletion as Strategic Threat, Africa
  • How US, Britain and Europe are responding to the end of cheap oil: State-militarisation, fossil fuel consolidation
  • Disruption from Below – Exponential Renewables
  • Disruption from Below – Utility Death Spiral
  • Disruption from Below – New Financial Models
  • Disruption from Below – Decentralisation of Power
  • Disruption from Below – the Open Source Revolution
  • Disruption from Below – the Rising Culture
  • Conclusions – Paradigm Shift.