Energy and the Environment I: Fossil Fuels
The goal of this chapter on energy and the environment is to review the basic impacts of human civilization’s quest for natural resources and energy and how these developments impact socio-ecological systems. Each of the major fossil fuel sources—natural
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E n e r gy TRANSITIONS Socio-Ecological Dimensions of Decarbonization
Sustainable Energy Transitions
Dustin Mulvaney
Sustainable Energy Transitions Socio-Ecological Dimensions of Decarbonization
Dustin Mulvaney San José State University San José, CA, USA
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Acknowledgments This book is dedicated to all my teachers, and our orange cat César (2002– 2020). There are a bunch of people to thank for helping me be a better teacher. I took courses from some wonderful instructors, in high school, college, and graduate school. In college, Professors Angelo J. Perna, R.P. Thompkins, and Trevor Tyson were major influences. Some of my teaching mentors include Professors Melanie Dupuis, David Goodman, Margaret FitzSimmons, Eric Katz, Ronnie Lipschutz, Roberto Sanchez-Rodriguez, Donna Haraway, Nancy Jackson, Ali Shakouri, and Ben Crow, all of whom I was a teaching assistant for, or who I took classes from. I learned and continue to learn a tremendous amount from my fellow graduate students in Environmental Studies at University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). Thanks to Daniel Press, who hired me to develop and teach my first energy course at UCSC in 2008. I had an amazing teaching-focused interdisciplinary postdoctoral experience in Electrical Engineering and at College 8 (the Rachel Carson College) at UCSC where I really began to refine p
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