The Low-Carbon Contradiction: Energy Transition, Geopolitics, and the Infrastructural State in Cuba Volume 13

by Gustav Cederlöf and Gustav Cederlof

In the pursuit of socialism, Cuba became Latin America's most oil-dependent economy. When the Soviet Union collapsed, the country lost 86 percent of its crude oil supplies, resulting in a severe energy crisis. In the face of this shock, Cuba started to develop a low-carbon economy on the basis of economic and social reform rather than high-tech innovation. The Low-Carbon Contradiction examines this period of rapid low-carbon energy transition,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520393120
• ISBN13: 9780520393127
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 9.1"