The Fossil-Fuelled Climate Crisis
Foresight or Discounting Danger?
This book analyses the threat posed by the continued use of fossil fuels. By utilizing Elizabeth Shove's social practices approach and Murphy's own social closure framework, the book examines the accelerating treadmill of carbon-polluting practices. It incorporates externalities theory to investigate how the full cost of fossil fuels is paid by others rather than users, and to demonstrate that the environmental commons is a medium for conveying intergenerational monopolisation and exclusion in the Anthropocene. Murphy uncovers a pattern of opposition to change when exploiting valuable but dangerous resources. He argues that a new faith in mas…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-3-030-53327-4
- EAN: 9783030533274
- Produktnummer: 37657210
- Verlag: Springer International Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 416 S.
- Masse: H21.0 cm x B14.8 cm x D2.2 cm 536 g
- Auflage: 1st ed. 2021
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 536
Über den Autor
Raymond Murphy is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Ottawa, Canada and Past-president of the Environment and Society Research Committee, International Sociological Association. He has authored multiple books including Social Closure (1988) and Leadership in Disaster (2009).
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