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1 online resource (318 pages) |
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Routledge Studies in Environmental Policy |
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Routledge studies in environmental policy.
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| Contents |
Cover; Land and Resource Scarcity; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on the authors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Exiting the multiple crises through 'green' growth?; 2 The end of the black epoch: fossil fuel peaks; 3 The stuff of the green revolution: nitrogen, potassium and phosphate; 4 Mining between comeback and dead end; 5 Land and the centrality of biomass; 6 The new land grab at the frontiers of the fossil energy regime; 7 Possible futures among dictatorship, chaos, and living well |
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8 De-growth solidarity: the great socio-ecological transformation of the twenty-first century9 A strategy of double power: the state and global regulation; References; Index |
| Summary |
This book brings together geological, biological, radical economic, technological, historical and social perspectives on peak oil and other scarce resources. The contributors to this volume argue that these scarcities will put an end to the capitalist system as we know it and alternatives must be created. The book combines natural science with emancipatory thinking, focusing on bottom up alternatives and social struggles to change the world by taking action. The volume introduces original contributions to the debates on peak oil, land grabbing and social alternatives, thus creating a synthe |
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Print version record |
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Power resources.
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Fossil fuels.
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Renewable energy sources.
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Resource allocation.
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Land supply
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energy resources.
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fossil fuel.
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Fossil fuels
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Power resources
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Renewable energy sources
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Resource allocation
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Erschöpfbare Ressourcen
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Fossiler Brennstoff
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Knappheit
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Landzuweisungspolitik
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Fleissner, Peter
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Kranzl, Lukas
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Zittel, Werner
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| ISBN |
9781136223181 |
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1136223185 |
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