1.

Record Nr.

UNIBAS000022044

Autore

Bessis, Sophie

Titolo

L'Occident et les autres : Histoire d'une suprématie / Sophie Bessis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Parigi : <<La>> Découverte, c2003

ISBN

2-7071-4255-7

Descrizione fisica

340 p. ; 19 cm

Collana

La découverte/poche ; 132

Disciplina

327.1

Soggetti

Paesi industrializzati

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Préface inédite de l'auteur

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787422603321

Autore

Corpi Lucha <1945->

Titolo

Confessions of a book burner : personal essays + stories / / Lucha Corpi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Houston, Texas : , : Arte Público Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-61192-677-7

1-61192-857-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (v, 242 pages )

Disciplina

814/.54

Soggetti

Women authors, American

Women immigrants

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph



Nota di contenuto

Remembrance, Poetry and Storytelling -- Four, Free and Invisible -- Epiphany: The Third Gift -- La Pagina Roja -- The ASPCA's Most Wanted: All Creatures Great, Small and Peewee -- Colorlines: The Kiss Ed Olmos Owes Me -- Photos of author and past book burner: Lucha Corpi -- Morpheus Unbound: Butterflies, Madmen and Death Dreams -- Wings, Chimes and Laurel Wreaths: Missing Destiny -- North and West of Memory: Cine Nights -- Also Known As: As Woman's Names -- Confession of a Book Burner

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910745599303321

Titolo

Coal and energy in South Africa : considering a just transition / / edited by Lochner Marais, Phillippe Burger, Maléne Campbell, Stuart Paul Denoon-Stevens and Deidré van Rooyen [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2021

©2022

ISBN

1-3995-1352-4

1-4744-8707-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (260 p.)

Collana

Edinburgh studies in urban political economy

Edinburgh scholarship online

Disciplina

333.790968276

Soggetti

Energy transition - South Africa - eMalahleni

Energy development - South Africa - eMalahleni

Coal mines and mining - South Africa - eMalahleni

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Also issued in print: 2021.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- CHAPTER 1 Mining and Mining Towns: A Conceptual Framework -- Chapter 2 What Is a Just Transition? -- Chapter 3 Mine Closure in the Coal Industry: Global and National Perspectives -- Chapter 4 Household Welfare in Emalahleni -- Chapter 5 Work and Life Satisfaction of Mining Employees -- Chapter 6 Informal Settlements in the Mining Context -- Chapter 7 Coal and Water: Exploiting One Precious Natural Resource at



the Expense of Another? -- Chapter 8 The Health Impacts of Coal Mining and Coal-based Energy -- Chapter 9 Sustainability Reporting by Collieries -- Chapter 10 Residents’ Perceptions of Coal Mining and Energy Generation -- Chapter 11 Boom or Bust for Emalahleni Businesses? -- Chapter 12 Socio-economic Dynamics of the Informal Economy -- Chapter 13 A More Resilient Policy Approach to Spatial Fragmentation -- Chapter 14 Planning in the Dark -- Chapter 15 ‘The mines must fix the potholes’: A Desperate Community -- Chapter 16 Municipal Finances -- Chapter 17 Is a Just Transition Possible? -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Taking the growing South African mining town of Emalahleni as a case study, this book investigates whether a just transition from coal-generated energy is possible and what the local implications of this global restructuring of the energy sector will be.