The resistance dilemma : place-based movements and the climate crisis

The resistance dilemma place-based movements and the climate crisis

"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Hoberg, George, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press [2021]
Colección:American and comparative environmental policy
Materias:
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.
North America > Environmental conditions.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009654831706719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The grand challenge : mobilizing to address the climate crisis
  • The oil sands policy regime : resource, markets, politics
  • The oil sands policy regime : ideas, institutions, and environmental policies
  • Keystone XL and the rise of the anti-pipeline movement
  • The Northern Gateway Pipeline : the continental divide in energy politics
  • Trans Mountain expansion project : the politics of structure
  • After careful review of changed circumstances : the demise of Energy East / co-authored with Xavier Deschênes-Philion
  • The impact of pipeline resistance
  • Site C Dam and the political barriers to renewable energy
  • How resistance to renewable energy infrastructure might frustrate climate solutions
  • Overcoming place-based resistance to renewable energy infrastructure.

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