Forests as Fuel

Energy, Landscape, Climate, and Race in the U.S. South

AvSarah Hitchner,John Schelhas

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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In the US South, wood-based bioenergy schemes are being promoted and implemented through a powerful vision merging social, environmental, and economic benefits for rural, forest-dependent communities. While this dominant narrative has led to heavy investment in experimental technologies and rural development, many complexities and complications have emerged during implementation. Forests as Fuel draws on extensive multi-sited ethnography to ground the story of wood-based bioenergy in the biophysical, economic, political, social, and cultural landscape of this region. This book contextualizes energy issues within the history and potential futures of the region’s forested landscapes, highlighting the impacts of varying perceptions of climate change and complex racial dynamics. Eschewing simple answers, the authors illuminate the points of friction that occur as competing visions of bioenergy development confront each other to variously support, reshape, contest, or reject bioenergy development. Building on recent conceptual advances in studies of sociotechnical imaginaries, environmental history, and energy justice, the authors present a careful and nuanced analysis that can provide guidance for promoting meaningful participation of local community members in renewable energy policy and production while recognizing the complex interplay of factors affecting its implementation in local places.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-01-28
Mått:161 x 227 x 23 mm
Vikt:576 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:252
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Medarbetare:Shepherd,JamesMarshall
ISBN:9781793632340

Utforska kategorier

Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Energiteknik inom Naturvetenskap och teknik
Geografi inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

Mer om författaren

Sarah Hitchner is assistant research scientist and adjunct professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Georgia.John Schelhas is research forester with the Southern Research Station of the USDA Forest Service.J. Peter Brosius is distinguished research professor of anthropology at the University of Georgia and founding director of the University of Georgia's Center for Integrative Conservation Research.

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This work offers an engaging, multi-faceted ethnography, covering two Georgia sites and one in Mississippi…. This book is well-researched and meticulously referenced. It will interest scholars in a wide range of disciplines, from anthropology and environmental studies to political science.Highlyrecommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals. General readers.

Innehållsförteckning

ForewordJ. Marshall ShepherdIntroduction Bioenergy Stories at the Intersection of Energy, Landscape, Race, and Climate in the U.S. SouthChapter 2 What People Hear and What People Say about Bioenergy: Translating Bioenergy Narratives, Imaginaries, and MetaphorsChapter 3 Bioenergy Landscapes: Impacts of Bioenergy Developments on Forest-Dependent Communities in the U.S. SouthChapter 4 What’s Climate Change Got to Do with It?: The Relevance (Or Not) of Climate Change to Perceptions of BioenergyChapter 5 “The South Be the South”: How Bioenergy Development Illustrates and Affects Racial Dynamics in the U.S. SouthConclusion A New Bioenergy Imaginary in the U.S. South