1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910554229203321

Autore

Golding Shaun A

Titolo

Electric Mountains : Climate, Power, and Justice in an Energy Transition

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Brunswick : , : Rutgers University Press, , 2021

©2021

ISBN

9781978820722

1978820720

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (307 pages)

Collana

Nature, Society, and Culture

Disciplina

333.790973

Soggetti

Energy policy - United States

Renewable energy sources - New England

Sustainable development

Wind turbines - New England

Technology & Engineering / General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Windy Ridgelines, Social Fault Lines -- 3. For the Love of Mountains: The Green Politics of Place -- 4. But What If . . . ? Wind and the Discourse of Risk -- 5. Following Power Lines: A Regional Political Economy of Renewables -- Part I: The Money -- Part II: The People -- 6. Scripted in Chaos -- 7. Why We Follow the Slow Transition Road Map -- 8. Ecological Modernizations or Capitalist Treadmills? -- 9. Energy and "Justice" in the Mountains -- 10. Reimagining Energy -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author -- Series Titles.

Sommario/riassunto

Climate change has shifted from future menace to current event. As eco-conscious electricity consumers, we want to do our part in weening from fossil fuels, but what are we actually a part of? Committed environmentalists in one of North America’s most progressive regions desperately wanted energy policies that address the climate crisis. For many of them, wind turbines on Northern New England’s iconic ridgelines symbolize the energy transition that they have long hoped to



see. For others, however, ridgeline wind takes on a very different meaning. When weighing its costs and benefits locally and globally, some wind opponents now see the graceful structures as symbols of corrupted energy politics. This book derives from several years of research to make sense of how wind turbines have so starkly split a community of environmentalists, as well as several communities. In doing so, it casts a critical light on the roadmap for energy transition that Northern New England’s ridgeline wind projects demarcate. It outlines how ridgeline wind conforms to antiquated social structures propping up corporate energy interests, to the detriment of the swift de-carbonizing and equitable transformation that climate predictions warrant. It suggests, therefore, that the energy transition of which most of us are a part, is probably not the transition we would have designed ourselves, if we had been asked.

2.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00075261

Autore

ABDULLAH, Muhammed Said

Titolo

Duniani kuna watu / Muhammed Said Abdulla

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Dar es Salaam, : EAPH, 1973

Descrizione fisica

121 p. ; 19 cm

Disciplina

896.3923

Soggetti

Romanzi Swahili

Lingua di pubblicazione

Swahili

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia