Solar Technology and Global Environmental Justice: The Vision and the Reality

by Andreas Roos

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032273380
• ISBN13: 9781032273389
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"