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Solar Technology and Global Environmental Justice
- The Vision and the Reality
Engelsk
Bogcover for Solar Technology and Global Environmental Justice af Andreas Roos, 9781032273396
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
218
ISBN-13:
9781032273396
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1032273399
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
7 okt 2024
Størrelse i cm:
23,4 x 15,6
Oplagsdato:
7 okt 2024
Forfatter(e):

Solar Technology and Global Environmental Justice

- The Vision and the Reality
Engelsk
Paperback 2024
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Building on insights from ecological economics and philosophy of technology, this book offers a novel, interdisciplinary approach to understand the contradictory nature of Solar photovoltaic (PV) technology.

Solar photovoltaic (PV) technology is rapidly emerging as a cost-effective option in the world economy. However, reports about miserable working conditions, environmentally deleterious mineral extraction and toxic waste dumps corrode the image of a problem-free future based on solar power. Against this backdrop, Andreas Roos explores whether ‘ecologically unequal exchange’ – an asymmetric transfer of labour time and natural resources – is a necessary condition for solar PV development. He demonstrates how the massive increase in solar PV installation over recent years would not have been possible without significant wage/price differences in the world economy - notably between Europe/North America and Asia- and concludes that solar PV development is currently contingent on environmental injustices in the world economy. As a solution, Roos argues that solar technology is best coupled with strategies for degrowth, which allow for a transition away from fossil fuels and towards a socially just and ecologically sustainable future.

This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of solar power, philosophy of technology, and environmental justice.

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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
218
ISBN-13:
9781032273396
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1032273399
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
7 okt 2024
Størrelse i cm:
23,4 x 15,6
Oplagsdato:
7 okt 2024
Forfatter(e):
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