
Beyond the Coal Rush
A Turning Point for Global Energy and Climate Policy?
Cambridge University Press
Published on 26. November 2020
Book
Hardback
282 pages
978-1-108-47982-0 (ISBN)
Description
Climate change makes fossil fuels unburnable, yet global coal production has almost doubled over the last 20 years. This book explores how the world can stop mining coal - the most prolific source of greenhouse gas emissions. It documents efforts at halting coal production, focusing specifically on how campaigners are trying to stop coal mining in India, Germany, and Australia. Through in-depth comparative ethnography, it shows how local people are fighting to save their homes, livelihoods, and environments, creating new constituencies and alliances for the transition from fossil fuels. The book relates these struggles to conflicts between global climate policy and the national coal-industrial complex. With coal's meaning transformed from an important asset to a threat, and the coal industry declining, it charts reasons for continuing coal dependence, and how this can be overcome. It will provide a source of inspiration for energy transition for researchers in environment, sustainability, and politics, as well as policymakers.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises; 7 Halftones, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 249 mm
Width: 171 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
628 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-108-47982-0 (9781108479820)
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Persons
James Goodman (convening author) is professor and director of the Climate Justice Research Centre at the University of Technology Sydney. He researches global politics, socio-cultural change, and climate justice. He has co-authored five books, including Justice Globalism (Sage, 2013) and Climate Upsurge: An Ethnography of Climate Movement Politics (Routledge, 2014), and has co-edited seven volumes.
Author
University of Technology Sydney
University of Sydney
University of Technology Sydney
University of Technology Sydney
Martin Luther-Universitaet Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
University of Technology Sydney
University of Sydney
University of Sydney
Content
Introduction; Chapter 1. The Global Contest over Coal and Development; Chapter 2. India: Coercion, Impunity and the Fight for Adivasi Rights in Chhattisgarh; Chapter 3. Australia: Contesting Coal Capital on the Liverpool Plains; Chapter 4. Germany: Globalizing the Local to Reach the National, Protest against Coal in the Lausitz; Chapter 5. Foundations for the Coal Rush: The post-War 'Coal-Industrial Complex'; Chapter 6. Kyoto and the Coal Boom: Coal's Climate Contradictions; Chapter 7. Coal in a Climate-constrained World: the Last Gasp?; Chapter 8. Concluding Chapter: Dynamics for a Post-Coal Future; Bibliography; Index.