03428nam 2200601K 450 991055751660332120210618054807.00-262-36715-70-262-36716-5(CKB)4100000012000821(MiAaPQ)EBC6684165(Au-PeEL)EBL6684165(OCoLC)1256683511(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/78628(OCoLC-P)1256683511(MaCbMITP)13668(EXLCZ)99410000001200082120210616d2021 uy 0engurcn#---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe resistance dilemma place-based movements and the climate crisis /George HobergCambridge, Massachusetts :The MIT Press,[2021]1 online resourceAmerican and comparative environmental policy0-262-54308-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.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."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.American and comparative environmental policyEnvironmentalismNorth AmericaEnvironmental sociologyNorth AmericaEnvironmental policyNorth AmericaCitizen participationClimate change mitigationNorth AmericaClimatic changesGovernment policyNorth AmericaRenewable energy sourcesEnvironmental aspectsNorth AmericaNorth AmericaEnvironmental conditionsEnvironmentalismEnvironmental sociologyEnvironmental policyCitizen participation.Climate change mitigationClimatic changesGovernment policyRenewable energy sourcesEnvironmental aspects363.738/7460973Hoberg George1204465OCoLC-POCoLC-PBOOK9910557516603321The resistance dilemma2827142UNINA