Super Polluters : : Tackling the World’s Largest Sites of Climate-Disrupting Emissions / / Andrew Jorgenson, Don Grant, Wesley Longhofer.
Power plants are essential to achieving the standard of living that modern societies demand and the social and economic infrastructure on which they depend. Yet their indispensability has allowed them to evade responsibility for their vast carbon emissions. Fossil-fueled power plants are the single...
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Grant, Don, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Super Polluters : Tackling the World’s Largest Sites of Climate-Disrupting Emissions / Andrew Jorgenson, Don Grant, Wesley Longhofer. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2020] ©2020 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Society and the Environment Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Who Is Responsible for This Mess?: The Climate Crisis and Hyperemitting Power Plants -- 2. Cleaning Up Their Act: Potential Emission Reductions from Targeting the Worst of the Worst Power Plants -- 3. Recipes for Disaster: How Social Structures Interact to Make Environmentally Destructive Plants Even More So -- 4. A Win-Win Solution?: The Paradoxical Effects of Efficiency on Plants’ CO2 Emissions -- 5. Bottom-Up Strategies: The Effectiveness of Local Policies and Activism (with Ion Bogdan Vasi) -- 6. Next Steps: Future Research and Action on Society’s Super Polluters -- Appendixes -- Notes -- References -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Power plants are essential to achieving the standard of living that modern societies demand and the social and economic infrastructure on which they depend. Yet their indispensability has allowed them to evade responsibility for their vast carbon emissions. Fossil-fueled power plants are the single largest sites of anthropogenic greenhouse gases, making them one of the greatest threats to our planet’s climate. Significant as they are, we lack a comprehensive understanding of the social causes that enable power plant emissions and continue to delay their reduction.Super Polluters offers a groundbreaking global analysis of carbon pollution caused by the generation of electricity, pinpointing who bears the most responsibility for the energy sector’s vast emissions and what can be done about them. The sociologists Don Grant, Andrew Jorgenson, and Wesley Longhofer analyze a novel dataset on the carbon dioxide emissions and structural attributes of thousands of fossil-fueled power plants around the world, identifying which plants discharge the most carbon. They investigate the global, organizational, and political conditions that explain these hyper-emitting facilities’ behavior and call into question the claim that improvements in technical efficiency will always reduce emissions. Grant, Jorgenson, and Longhofer demonstrate which energy and climate policies are most effective at abating power-plant pollution, emphasizing how mobilized citizen activism shapes those outcomes. A comprehensive account of who bears the blame for our warming planet, Super Polluters points to more feasible and effective emission reduction strategies that target the world’s most profligate polluters. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Jan 2023) Air Pollution. Carbon dioxide mitigation. Electric power-plants Environmental aspects. Environmental sociology. SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change. bisacsh climate change. environmental sociology. pollution. power plants. Jorgenson, Andrew, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Longhofer, Wesley, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020 9783110710977 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English 9783110704716 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 9783110704518 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Medicine and Life Sciences 2020 English 9783110704808 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Medicine and Life Sciences 2020 9783110704600 ZDB-23-DPM https://doi.org/10.7312/gran19216 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231549691 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231549691/original |
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