Renewing Destruction: Wind Energy Development, Conflict and Resistance in a Latin American Context (Transforming Capitalism) - Hardcover

Buch 8 von 12: Transforming Capitalism

Dunlap, Alexander A.

 
9781786610652: Renewing Destruction: Wind Energy Development, Conflict and Resistance in a Latin American Context (Transforming Capitalism)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1786610655 ISBN 13: 9781786610652
Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

Renewing Destruction examines how wind energy projects impact people and their environments. Wind energy development, in Mexico and most countries, fall into a 'roll out' neoliberal strategy that is justified by climate change mitigation programs that are continuing a process of land and wind resources grabbing for profit. The result has been an exaggeration of pre-existing problems in communities around land, income-inequality, local politics and, contrary to public relations stories, is devastating traditional livelihoods and socio-ecological relationships. Exacerbating pre-existing social and material problems in surrounding towns, wind energy development is placing greater stress on semi-subsistence communities, marginalizing Indigenous traditions and indirectly resulting in the displacement and migration of people into urban centers.

Based on intensive fieldwork with local groups in Oaxaca, Mexico, this book provides an in-depth study, demonstrating the complications and problems that emerge with the current regime of 'sustainable development' and wind energy projects in Mexico, which has wider lessons to be drawn for other regions and countries. Put simply, the book reveals a tragic reality that calls into question the marketed hopes of the green economy and the current method of climate change mitigation. It shows the variegated impacts and issues associated with building wind energy parks, which extends to recognizing the destructive effects on Indigenous cultures and practices in the region. The book, however, highlights what to consider or, more importantly, what to avoid if one is working with industrial-scale wind energy systems.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Alexander Dunlap is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo.

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Verlag
Rowman & Littlefield
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1786610655
ISBN 13 
9781786610652
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
244
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