Limits to Terrestrial Extraction (Hardcover)

This volume focuses on the social, cultural, and ecological consequences of a political economy of energy. A political economy of energy holds that an enduring hallmark of the current context is a reorganization of human society toward energy extraction and production. Limits to Terrestrial Extraction looks at the construction of society itself as an energy-harvesting "megamachine," the ecomodernist project of the latter half of the twentieth century and its disastrous environmental record, and mining Near Earth Objects to extract extraterrestrial resources. Each chapter explores a limit to terrestrial extraction - spatially, economically, or socially - finding that business as usual cannot yield a different world. The authors eschew easy answers of natural resource management or discourses of wise use, instead offering critiques of market society and its constitutive drive to produce and waste energy. Overall, this volume establishes the existential stakes and scope of change that will be required to build a better world. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental political theory, as well as social scientists and humanities scholars who study the intersection of energy and society.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Focus on Energy Studies
Release date:	February 2020
First published:	2020
Editors:	Robert Kirsch
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 7mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	84
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-86336-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General Books > Business & Economics > Economics > General Books > Professional & Technical > Energy technology & engineering > Alternative & renewable energy sources & technology Books > Professional & Technical > Environmental engineering & technology > General Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Energy industries & utilities > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Classical mechanics > General Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Pollution & threats to the environment > Global warming Promotions
LSN:	0-367-86336-7
Barcode:	9780367863364

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!