Beyond the Coal Rush: A Turning Point for Global Energy and Climate Policy?
Cambridge University Press, 11/26/2020
EAN 9781108479820, ISBN10: 1108479820
Hardcover, 288 pages, 24.4 x 17 x 1.8 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
Climate change makes fossil fuels unburnable, yet global coal production has almost doubled over the last 20 years. This book explores how the world can stop mining coal - the most prolific source of greenhouse gas emissions. It documents efforts at halting coal production, focusing specifically on how campaigners are trying to stop coal mining in India, Germany, and Australia. Through in-depth comparative ethnography, it shows how local people are fighting to save their homes, livelihoods, and environments, creating new constituencies and alliances for the transition from fossil fuels. The book relates these struggles to conflicts between global climate policy and the national coal-industrial complex. With coal's meaning transformed from an important asset to a threat, and the coal industry declining, it charts reasons for continuing coal dependence, and how this can be overcome. It will provide a source of inspiration for energy transition for researchers in environment, sustainability, and politics, as well as policymakers.
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.