Power Struggles: Dignity, Value, and the Renewable Energy Frontier in Spain Franquesa JaumePaperback
Power Struggles: Dignity, Value, and the Renewable Energy Frontier in Spain Franquesa JaumePaperback Wind energy is often portrayed as a panacea for the environmental and political ills brought on by…
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Power Struggles: Dignity, Value, and the Renewable Energy Frontier in Spain Franquesa JaumePaperback
Wind energy is often portrayed as a panacea for the environmental and political ills brought on by an overreliance on fossil fuels, but this characterization may ignore the impact wind farms have on the regions that host them. In particular, he looks at the Southern Catalonia region, which has traditionally been a source of energy production through nuclear reactors, dams, oil refineries, and gas and electrical lines. Power Struggles investigates the uneven allocation of risks and benefits in the relationship between the regions that produce this energy and those that consume it.Jaume Franquesa considers Spain, a country where wind now constitutes the main source of energy production.
Despite providing energy that runs the country, the region is still forced to the political and economic periphery as the power they produce is controlled by centralized,