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Motor Vehicles, the Environment, and the Human Condition

Motor Vehicles, the Environment, and the Human Condition

Hans A. Baer

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Bloomsbury Publishing plc
Año de edición:
2023
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Ecología, la biosfera
ISBN:
9781793604903
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This book explores the political ecology of motor vehicles in an era of growing social disparities and environmental crises. Humanity needs to move beyond motor vehicles as much as possible as part and parcel of the larger process of radical social structural changes.

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