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2 produkter
2 produkter
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
459 kr
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How histories of environmental inequalities and settler colonialism undercut a famously “green” regionIn Portland’s harbor, environmental justice groups challenge the EPA for a more thorough cleanup of the Willamette River. Near Olympia, the Puyallup assert their tribal sovereignty and treaty rights to fish. Seattle housing activists demand that Amazon pay to address the affordability crisis it helped create. Urban Cascadia, the infrastructure, social networks, built environments, and non-human animals and plants that are interconnected in the increasingly urbanized bioregion that surrounds Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver, enjoys a reputation for progressive ambitions and forward-thinking green urbanism. Yet legacies of settler colonialism and environmental inequalities contradict these ambitions, even as people strive to achieve those progressive ideals.In this edited volume, historians, geographers, urbanists, and other scholars critically examine these contradictions to better understand the capitalist urbanization of nature, the creation of social and environmental inequalities, and the movements to fight for social and environmental justice. Neither a story of green disillusion nor one of green boosterism, Urban Cascadia and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice reveals how the region can address broader issues of environmental justice, Indigenous sovereignty, and the politics of environmental change.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2027
371 kr
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Hydropower has long defined the Northwest. Massive dams on the Columbia and Snake Rivers electrify cities, fuel industrial growth, and help create one of the lowest-carbon electricity systems in the United States. Yet those same structures also flooded Indigenous homelands, transformed river ecosystems, and helped drive the region’s iconic salmon toward collapse. Damming Debates examines this profound dilemma at the heart of the region’s energy future.Blending fieldwork, interviews, and historical research, Nik Janos follows the people shaping the hydropower debate—dam operators, policymakers, tribal leaders, environmental advocates, farmers, and river communities—as they wrestle with competing visions. The conflict is often framed as “dams versus fish,” but beneath that slogan lies deeper questions about climate responsibility, tribal sovereignty, economic livelihoods, and the meaning of environmental restoration.Hydropower embodies a central paradox of the clean-energy transition: infrastructure that produces abundant low-carbon electricity can simultaneously perpetuate ecological damage and colonial extraction. In the Northwest, debates about dam removal, salmon recovery, and energy reliability reveal how difficult it is to reconcile climate urgency with justice and ecological repair.Clear, nuanced, and grounded in voices from across the region, Damming Debates offers an essential guide to a consequential environmental crossroads—and to the broader challenge of building a just energy transition.