Challenging Legitimacy at the Precipice of Energy Calamity

Challenging Legitimacy at the Precipice of Energy Calamity
ISBN-10
1461402875
ISBN-13
9781461402879
Category
Science
Pages
232
Language
English
Published
2011-08-31
Publisher
Springer Science & Business Media
Authors
Debra J. Davidson, Mike Gismondi

Description

Human history has often been described as a progressive relinquishment from environmental constraints. Now, it seems, we have come full circle. The ecological irrationalities associated with industrial societies have a lengthy history, and our purpose in the proposed book is not to catalogue this litany of wrongs. Rather, this book is about political responses to global environmental crisis at a crucial turning point in history, by focusing on the political discourses surrounding the tar sands in Alberta, Canada.

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