Hans A. Baer

Motor Vehicles, the Environment, and the Human Condition (eBook, PDF)

Driving to Extinction

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The world now has more than a billion motor vehicles, and this number continues to increase as developing countries imitate developed societies in their adoption of the culture of automobility. This book explores the political ecology of motor vehicles in an era of growing social disparities and environmental crises, the latter of which are most manifest in anthropogenic climate change to which motor vehicles constitute a major contributor. A political ecological perspective recognizes that motor vehicles, perhaps more than any other machine, embody the social, structural, cultural, and environmental contradictions of the capitalist world system. In addition to highlighting many of the environmental, social, and health, environmental consequences of humanity's increasing reliance on motor vehicles, particularly private automobiles, this book argues that ultimately we need as a species to move beyond motor vehicles as much as possible but that such an effort will have be part and parcel of creating an alternative world system based on social justice, democratic processes, environmental sustainability, and a safe climate, one termed democratic eco-socialism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978776685
• Artikelnr.: 74848084

Autorenporträt

Hans A. Baer is principal honorary research fellow in the School of Social Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. Hans was a Fulbright Scholar in at Humboldt University in East Berlin in the German Democratic Republic in 1988-1989. He has taught at several US universities, including George Peabody College for Teachers, St. John's University, the University of Southern Mississippi, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, the University of California - Berkeley, Arizona State University, and at two Australian universities, namely the Australian National University and the University of Melbourne.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1 - The Political Economy of Motor Vehicles
Chapter 2 - Cultural Tropes Associated with Motor Vehicles
Chapter 3 - The Political Ecological Impact of Motor Vehicles on Settlement
Patterns
Chapter 4 - The Impact of Motor Vehicles on the Natural Environment
Chapter 5 - The Political Ecological Impact of Motor Vehicles on Health
Chapter 6 - Case Studies of Motor Vehicles in Various Places
Chapter 7 - Beyond the Automobile Motor Vehicle
Chapter 8 - Creating a Sustainable Transportation System within the Context
of an Alternative World System
References
About the Author