Failing States, Collapsing Systems BioPhysical Triggers of Political Violence /

• 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,
• Θέματα: Energy.; Energy policy.; Energy and state.; Nature.; Environment.; Economic growth.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Energy Policy, Economics and Management.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.; Economic Growth.; Popular Science in Economics.; Popular Science in Nature and Environment.

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...

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.