Climate Crisis, Energy Violence, and Environmental Racism

Despite global support for energy democracy and sustainable energy systems, there remains considerable unevenness in the distribution and extent of energy rights, and concentrations of energy poverty and energy violence, homicides and repression intimately connected to the energy sector. Climate Crisis, Energy Violence, and Environmental Racism communicates the extremity, breadth, and the extent of energy violence across energy sources, sectors and geographies. The work accommodates structural, ecological, institutional, physical and economic forms of energy violence. It explores the field through novel research methods and data sources including the use of comparative homicide and repression databases, the analysis of hotspots and sacrifice zone analysis, and systematic representation of the full continuum of violence. The work is accompanied by a comprehensive complement of case studies drawn from global examples, including coal mining, oil production, hydraulic fracturing, biofuels, hydroelectric dams, and solar panel construction. By framing the work in the context of violence, and in particular the use of metrics, the book provides a compelling and engaging argument for energy justice. Analyses energy violence in an accessible and common-sense theoretical framework grounded in ecology, ethics, and human rightsExplores energy violence comprehensively across multiple sources, sectors and geographiesInterrogates quantifiable structural violence through homicide and repression databases INDICE: Introduction: Climate Chaos and the Violence of Accelerated Energy Buildout 1. Energy Violence and Environmental Racism 2. Research Methodology 3. Illustrative Cases 4. Comparative Analysis 5. Findings Conclusions and Additional Engagements

• ISBN: 978-0-12-819501-7
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 304
• Fecha Publicación: 01/08/2020
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés