The resistance dilemma : : place-based movements and the climate crisis / / George Hoberg.

• Superior document: American and comparative environmental policy
• VerfasserIn: Hoberg, George,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, Massachusetts : : The MIT Press,, [2021]
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: American and comparative environmental policy
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

"The book focuses on a strategic choice by the North American wing of the global climate movement: to ally themselves with place-based interests, including Indigenous groups, to block new coal plants, coal port expansion, fracking, and more recently, oil sands pipelines. The strategy by climate activists to target fossil fuel infrastructure has been effective at movement building and driving policy forward, but it might also indirectly threaten the clean energy transformation needed to address the climate crisis"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

The grand challenge : mobilizing to address the climate crisis -- The oil sands policy regime : resource, markets, politics -- The oil sands policy regime : ideas, institutions, and environmental policies -- Keystone XL and the rise of the anti-pipeline movement -- The Northern Gateway Pipeline : the continental divide in energy politics -- Trans Mountain expansion project : the politics of structure -- After careful review of changed circumstances : the demise of Energy East / co-authored with Xavier Deschênes-Philion -- The impact of pipeline resistance -- Site C Dam and the political barriers to renewable energy -- How resistance to renewable energy infrastructure might frustrate climate solutions -- Overcoming place-based resistance to renewable energy infrastructure.