The shadows of consumption : consequences for the global environment / Peter Dauvergne
- Bib ID:
- 4505734
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Dauvergne, Peter
- Description:
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- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008
- xvi, 315 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780262042468
- 0262042460
- Full contents:
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- Introduction. The Ecological Shadows of Rising Consumption
- 1. An Unbalanced Global Political Economy
- 2. Dying of Consumption
- I. Automobiles
- 3. Accidental Dependency? The Road to an Auto World
- 4. A Better Ride: Selling Safe and Clean
- 5. The Road Tolls
- 6. The Globalization of Accidents and Emissions
- II. Leaded Gasoline
- 7. Leaded Science: Pumping Out Profits and Risks
- 8. Lead Must Go
- 9. Taking the Lead Out of Africa
- 10. The Globalization of Risk
- III. Refrigerators
- 11. Refrigerating the Ozone Layer
- 12. Phasing Out CFC Refrigerators
- 13. Selling the "Superior" Refrigerator
- 14. The Globalization of Plugging In
- IV. Beef
- 15. The Efficient Steer: Fast, Fat, and Cheap
- 16. The Ecology of Big Beef
- 17. Sustainable Beef? Chasing a Stampede of "Regular" Steers
- 18. The Globalization of More Meat
- V. The Harp Seal Hunt
- 19. To the Red Ice: Heroes and Overharvesting
- 20. The Brutes! Killing Markets with Activism.
- 21. Hunting Beaters for Globalizing Markets
- 22. The Globalization of Slippery Markets
- Conclusion: Transforming Global Consumption
- 23. The Illusions of Environmentalism
- 24. A Brighter World Order of Balanced Consumption.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-287) and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
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