Beyond the Coal Rush - James Goodman

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Résumé :
Climate change makes fossil fuels unburnable, but how can the world stop mining coal - the worst source of greenhouse gas emissions?

Biographie:
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.

Sommaire:
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.