Holly Jean Buck

After Geoengineering

Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

What if the people seized the means of climate production?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso / Verso US
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 6338
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 158mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9781788730365
• ISBN-10: 1788730364
• Artikelnr.: 54944241

Autorenporträt

Holly Jean Buck is a geographer and environmental social scientist studying rural futures, the politics of platforms, and how emerging technologies can address environmental challenges. She works as an Assistant Professor of Environment and Sustainability at the University at Buffalo in Buffalo, New York, and has a Ph.D. in Development Sociology from Cornell University. She is the author of After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration and Ending Fossil Fuels: Why Net Zero Is Not Enough.

Rezensionen

In the face of rapid climate change, how should we think about geoengineering? In this timely and bold book, Holly Jean Buck lays out a case for approaching geoengineering from the Left. Blending journalistic insight with scientific speculation, After Geoenginneeringinspires much-needed thought experiments about the changes coming to our warmer and weirder world. Joel Wainwright, author of Decolonizing Development, Geopiracy, and Climate Leviathan (with Geoff Mann)