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Motor Vehicles, the Environment, and the Human Condition


Motor Vehicles, the Environment, and the Human Condition

Driving to Extinction
Environment and Society

von: Hans A. Baer

36,99 €

Verlag: Lexington Books
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 09.10.2019
ISBN/EAN: 9781793604897
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 258

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<span>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. </span>
<a><span>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. </span></a>
<span>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. <br><br></span>
<span>This book explores the political ecology of motor vehicles in an era of growing social disparities and environmental crises. Humanity needs to move beyond motor vehicles as much as possible as part and parcel of the larger process of radical social structural changes.</span>
<span>Introduction </span>
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<span>Chapter 1 – The Political Economy of Motor Vehicles </span>
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<span>Chapter 2 – Cultural Tropes Associated with Motor Vehicles </span>
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<span>Chapter 3 – The Political Ecological Impact of Motor Vehicles on Settlement Patterns </span>
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<span>Chapter 4 – The Impact of Motor Vehicles on the Natural Environment </span>
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<span>Chapter 5 – The Political Ecological Impact of Motor Vehicles on Health </span>
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<span>Chapter 6 – Case Studies of Motor Vehicles in Various Places </span>
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<span>Chapter 7 – Beyond the Automobile Motor Vehicle</span>
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<span>Chapter 8 – Creating a Sustainable Transportation System within the Context of an Alternative World System </span>
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<span>References</span>
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<span>About the Author</span>
<p><span>Hans A. Baer </span><span>is principal honorary research fellow in the School of Social Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne and author of </span><span>Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Real Utopia: Transitioning to an Alternative World System.</span></p>

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