Title The resistance dilemma : place-based movements and the climate crisis / George Hoberg

Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2021] ©2021

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 366 pages) : illustrations Series American and comparative environmental policy American and comparative environmental policy. Contents 1. The grand challenge : mobilizing to address the climate crisis -- I The oil sands policy regime -- 2. The oil sands policy regime : resource, markets, politics -- 3. The oil sands policy regime : ideas, institutions, and environmental policies -- II Pipeline Resistance -- 4. Keystone XL and the rise of the anti-pipeline movement -- 5. The Northern Gateway Pipeline : the continental divide in energy politics -- 6. Trans Mountain expansion project : the politics of structure -- 7. After careful review of changed circumstances : the demise of Energy East / co-authored with Xavier Deschênes-Philion -- 8. The impact of pipeline resistance -- III The Resistance Dilemma -- 9. Site C Dam and the political barriers to renewable energy -- 10. How resistance to renewable energy infrastructure might frustrate climate solutions -- IV Can Innovative Processes Avoid Paralysis? -- 11. Overcoming place-based resistance to renewable energy infrastructure --12. Conclusion Summary "The book focuses on a strategic choice by the North American wing of the global climate movement: to ally themselves with place-based interests, including Indigenous groups, to block new coal plants, coal port expansion, fracking, and more recently, oil sands pipelines. The strategy by climate activists to target fossil fuel infrastructure has been effective at movement building and driving policy forward, but it might also indirectly threaten the clean energy transformation needed to address the climate crisis"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO; viewed on August 20, 2021) Subject Environmentalism -- North America Environmental sociology -- North America Environmental policy -- North America -- Citizen participation Climate change mitigation -- North America Climatic changes -- Government policy -- North America Renewable energy sources -- Environmental aspects -- North America Environmental sociology. Climate change mitigation Climatic changes -- Government policy Ecology Environmental policy -- Citizen participation Environmental sociology Environmentalism Renewable energy sources -- Environmental aspects SUBJECT North America -- Environmental conditions Subject North America Form Electronic book LC no. 2020048456 ISBN 0262367157 9780262367158 9780262367165 0262367165

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