Solar Technology and Global Environmental Justice

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  • Solar Technology and Global Environmental Justice Book Detail

  • Author : Andreas Roos
  • Release Date : 2023-02-02
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Genre : Technology & Engineering
  • Pages : 239
  • ISBN 13 : 1000832619
  • File Size : 58,58 MB
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Solar Technology and Global Environmental Justice by Andreas Roos PDF Summary

Book Description: 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 the image of a problem-free future based on solar power. Against this backdrop, Andreas Roos explores whether ‘ecologically unequal exchange’ – an asymmetric transfer of labour time and natural resources – is a necessary condition for solar PV development. He demonstrates how the massive increase in solar PV installation over recent years would not have been possible without significant wage/price differences in the world economy - notably between Europe/North America and Asia- and concludes that solar PV development is currently contingent on environmental injustices in the world economy. As a solution, Roos argues that solar technology is best coupled with strategies for degrowth, which allow for a transition away from fossil fuels and towards a socially just and ecologically sustainable future. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of solar power, philosophy of technology, and environmental justice.

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