Transportation and the Culture of Climate Change: Accelerating Ride to Global Crisis

Book Overview

This interdisciplinary collection of eleven original essays focuses on the environmental impact of transportation, which is, as Tatiana Prorokova-Konrad and Brian C. Black note in their introduction, responsible for 26 percent of global energy use. Approaching mobility not solely as a material, logistical question but as a phenomenon mediated by culture, the book interrogates popular assumptions deeply entangled with energy choices. Rethinking transportation,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1949199649
• ISBN13: 9781949199642
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: West Virginia University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"