Ending the fossil fuel era /edited by Thomas Princen, Jack P. Manno and Pamela L. Martin.

Ending the fossil fuel era /edited by Thomas Princen, Jack P. Manno and Pamela L. Martin. - Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource (xii, 374 pages) : illustrations.

Includes bibliographies and index.

The problem / The biophysical : the decline in energy returned on energy invested, net energy, and marginal benefits / The cultural : the magic, the vision, the power / The ethical : a fossil fuel ethic / Leaving oil under the Amazon : the Yasuní-ITT initiative as a postpetroleum model? / Appalachia coal : the campaign to end mountaintop removal mining / El Salvador gold : toward a mining ban / Slowing uranium in Australia : lessons for urgent transition beyond coal, gas, and oil / The future would have to give way to the past : Germany and the coal dilemma / Heating up and cooling down the petrostate : the Norwegian experience / The good life (sumak kawsay) and the good mind (ganigonhi:oh) : indigenous values and keeping fossil fuels in the ground / Exit strategies / On the way down : fossil fuel politics in the twenty-first century / Thomas Princen, Jack P. Manno, and Pamela L. Martin -- Jack P. Manno and Stephen B. Balogh -- Thomas Princen -- Thomas Princen -- Pamela L. Martin -- Laura A. Bozzi -- Robin Broad and John Cavanagh -- James Goodman and Stuart Rosewarne -- Tom Morton -- Helge Ryggvik and Berit Kristoffersen -- Jack P. Manno and Pamela L. Martin -- Thomas Princen and Adele Santana -- Thomas Princen, Jack P. Manno, and Pamela L. Martin.



9780262327077


Fossil fuels.
Energy security.
Energy policy.
Environmental degradation.


Electronic Books.

TP318 / .E535 2015