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Looks at how society navigates crucial historic moments
Focuses on the Athabasca tar sands and the high viscosity tar that has been deposited over several millennia
The potential for reflexive social change can best be evaluated through critical consideration of why current social structures are sustained
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Human history has often been described as a progressive relinquishment from environmental constraints. Now, it seems, we have come full circle. The ecological irrationalities associated with industrial societies have a lengthy history, and our purpose in the proposed book is not to catalogue this litany of wrongs. Rather, this book is about political responses to global environmental crisis at a crucial turning point in history, by focusing on the political discourses surrounding the tar sands in Alberta, Canada.
Authors and Affiliations
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Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Enviro, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Debra J. Davidson
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Centre for Integrated Studies, Athabasca University, Athabasca, Canada
Mike Gismondi
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Challenging Legitimacy at the Precipice of Energy Calamity
Authors: Debra J. Davidson, Mike Gismondi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0287-9
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-0286-2Published: 31 August 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-0104-3Published: 01 October 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-0287-9Published: 30 August 2011
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 232
Topics: Environment, general, Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Climate Change, Mineral Resources, Political Science