Beschreibung:
The volume introduces original contributions to the debates on peak oil, land grabbing and social alternatives, thus creating a synthesis to gain an overview of the multiple crises of our times. Using the most up to date research on resource crises, this integrative and critical analysis brings together the issues with a radical perspective on possibilites for future change as well as a strong social economic and ethical dimesion.
1. Exiting the Multiple Crisis through "Green" Growth, Elmar Altvater and Margot Geiger 2. The End of the Black Epoch: Fossil Fuel Peaks, Werner Zittel 3. The Stuff of the Green Revolution: Nitrogen, Potassium and Phosphate, Werner Zittel 4. Coloured Metals or the Mining Comeback,Werner Zittel, Andreas Exner 5. Land and the Centrality of Biomass, Lukas Kranzl, Gerald Kalt, Christian Lauk, Kay Kemendy, Andreas Exner 6. The New Land Grab at the Frontiers of the Fossil Energy Regime, Andreas Exner 7. Possible Futures among Dictatorship, Chaos, and Living Well , Peter Fleissner and Andreas Exner 8. De-growth Solidarity: The Great Socio-Ecological Transformation of the 21st Century, Andreas Exner 9. A Strategy of Double Power: The State and Global Regulation, Andreas Exner