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1 online resource (219 pages) |
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Intro; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Contents; 1 Reimagining the Suburbs Beyond Growth; Prelude: The Great Resettlement; The Suburban Age; The End of the Carnival; A Crisis of Overproduction; Consumptive Cities; The Limits to Capital; To a New Settlement; Charting for Degrowth; Our Project: A Radical Urban Imaginary; Chapter Overviews; References; 2 Carbon Suburbia and the Energy Descent Future; Powerdown: Navigating Energy Descent Futures; The Energetic Foundations of Suburbia; The Finitude of Oil and the Fate of Suburbia; Peak Oil: Not Dead, Only in Remission; Unburnable Carbon |
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The Moral Hazard of Possible Technological SolutionsThe Politics and Economics of Deep Decarbonisation; A Just Transition to a Post-carbon Suburbia Implies Energy Descent; References; 3 Light Green Illusions and the 'Blind Field' of Techno-optimism; Nuclear Energy: Limited Potential as Carbon Mitigation Technology; Can Renewable Energy Fully Replace Fossil Fuels?; Renewable Energy: The Potential and Limitations; A Critique of Electric Vehicles: Driving Down the Wrong Road More Slowly; Energy Descent, Relocalisation, and the Low-Mobility Future; References |
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4 Resettling Suburbia: A Post-capitalist Politics 'From Below'Democracy, Energy Descent, and the Post-capitalist Politics of Degrowth; The Growth Imperative, Capital, and the Political Problem of 'Empire'; The Politics of the Household Economy: Driving Suburban Change 'From Below'; Re-accomplishing Democracy Through Participation; Resistance and Renewal: Contemporary Urban Social Movements Bubbling Under the Surface; Getting on with the Work of Resettling; References; 5 Unlearning Abundance: Suburban Practices of Energy Descent; Degrowth for Whom? |
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Enough, for Everyone, Forever: Towards an Economics of SufficiencySuburban Practices of Energy Descent; The Necessity of Demand Reduction; Solar; An Electric 'Heat Pump' Hot Water System; Biogas in the Suburbs; Post-carbon Transport; Low-Meat Diets and the Other Great Taboo; Towards a Post-carbon Suburban Homestead: Reimagining the Good Life; Enlightened Material Restraint: The Practice of Sufficiency and Self-Limitation; Eating the Suburbs; Escaping the Market: Sharing, Gift, and the Urban Peasantry; Retrofitting the Suburbs: Prospects and Obstacles |
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Aim for Sustainability but Settle for Resilience?References; 6 Degrowth in the Suburbs: Envisioning a Prosperous Descent; Reflections on the Future: Looking Backward from the Year 2038; Oil, Financial Crisis, and the Second Great Depression; Life After Growth: Crisis as Opportunity in Australia; Degrowth in the Suburbs: Embracing the Sufficiency Imperative; Water; Urban Agriculture; Work, Production, and Self-Employment in the Informal Economy; Transport in a Local Economy; Managing Energy Descent; Reimagining the Built Environment; A Prosperous Descent |
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7 Regoverning the City: Policies for a New Economy |
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Print version record |
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Anti-environmentalism.
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Suburbs.
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Anti-environmentalism
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Suburbs
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gleeson, Brendan
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| ISBN |
9789811321313 |
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9811321310 |
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