Urban Dependency

The Inescapable Reality of the Energy Economy

Gregory M. Fulkerson, Alexander R. Thomas (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

218 Seiten

2020
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-2309-6 (ISBN)

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Urban Dependency investigates the risks of urban populations that cannot survive without the massive consumption of basic rural products like food, textiles, fossil fuels, and other energy-rich goods that are harvested by a shrinking rural base. Thomas and Fulkerson argue that though essential, rural workers and communities are poorly compensated for their labor that is both dangerous and highly exploitative. While the rural population is already shrinking, the authors predict that harsh political-economic conditions will only fuel further rural-urban migration, worsening the problem of urban dependency. The authors apply their theory of the energy economy to explore a balance between the supply and demand of energy resources that promotes rural justice.

Gregory M. Fulkerson is professor and chair of the Department of Sociology at SUNY Oneonta. Alexander R. Thomas is professor of sociology at SUNY Oneonta.

Chapter 1 An Environmental Demographic Perspective
Chapter 2 Matter and Energy: Theorizing Balance
Chapter 3 The Energy Economy: Accounting for Sustainable Balance
Chapter 4 Caloric Well Analysis of Settlements
Chapter 5 World Urbanization and Urban Dependency
Chapter 6 Urban Food Dependency
Chapter 7 Urban Energy Dependency
Chapter 8 Urbanormativity and Urban Dependency
Conclusion: Sustainability and the Future of Urban-Rural Systems
Appendix 1 Definition of Population Related Municipalities
Appendix 2 Comparison of FAO Food Energy Balance Ratios

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Urban–Rural Dynamics
Zusatzinfo	44 b/w photos; 11 tables;
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10	1-7936-2309-0 / 1793623090
ISBN-13	978-1-7936-2309-6 / 9781793623096
Zustand	Neuware