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Human health and well being are closely intertwined with the ability to access affordable and modern domestic energy services, including heating, cooling, lighting, cooking, and information technology. Energy poverty is said to occur when such amenities cannot be secured up to a socially- and physically- necessitated level. Millions of people across the world suffer from energy poverty due to a combination of financial, social and technical circumstances. Energy Poverty and Vulnerability provides novel and critical perspectives on the drivers and consequences of energy-related injustices in the home. Drawing together original research conducted by leading experts, the book offers fresh and innovative insights into the ways in which hitherto unexplored factors such as cultural norms, environmental conditions and household needs combine to shape vulnerability to energy poverty. Case studies from a wide range of countries are presented, thus providing the first globally-integrated account of a policy and research domain that has previously been divided between the Global South and North. An examination of the diverse manifestations of energy poverty is supplemented by an identification of this condition's shared and context-specific causes. Conveying policy-relevant insights that can inform decision-making, this book can be of great interest to students and scholars of energy demand, social justice, and sustainability transitions, as well as decision-makers and practitioners who wish to find out more about this complex issue.

Energy security --- Scarcity --- Deficiency --- Shortages --- Energy dependence --- Energy independence --- Energy insecurity --- Security, Energy --- Energy policy --- energy poverty --- global perspective --- Efficient energy use --- Infrastructure --- North–South divide --- Qualitative research --- South Africa --- Youth

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It was the age of exploration, the age of empire and conquest, and human beings were extending their reach-and their numbers-as never before. In the process, they were intervening in the world's natural environment in equally unprecedented and dramatic ways. A sweeping work of environmental history, The Unending Frontier offers a truly global perspective on the profound impact of humanity on the natural world in the early modern period. John F. Richards identifies four broadly shared historical processes that speeded environmental change from roughly 1500 to 1800 c.e.: intensified human land use along settlement frontiers; biological invasions; commercial hunting of wildlife; and problems of energy scarcity. The Unending Frontier considers each of these trends in a series of case studies, sometimes of a particular place, such as Tokugawa Japan and early modern England and China, sometimes of a particular activity, such as the fur trade in North America and Russia, cod fishing in the North Atlantic, and whaling in the Arctic. Throughout, Richards shows how humans-whether clearing forests or draining wetlands, transporting bacteria, insects, and livestock; hunting species to extinction, or reshaping landscapes-altered the material well-being of the natural world along with their own.

Human ecology --- Nature --- Environmental history --- History. --- Effect of human beings on --- Human ecology - History --- Nature - Effect of human beings on - History --- age of exploration. --- case studies. --- china. --- commercial hunting. --- conquest. --- deforestation. --- early modern period. --- england. --- environmental change. --- environmental history. --- environmental impact. --- frontier life. --- fur trade. --- global history. --- global perspective. --- historical processes. --- human impact. --- imperialism. --- japan. --- natural environment. --- natural historians. --- natural history. --- natural world. --- north america. --- reshaping landscapes. --- russia. --- settlement frontiers. --- wetland ecology.

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This groundbreaking book presents a global perspective on the history of forced migration over three centuries and illuminates the centrality of these vast movements of people in the making of the modern world. Highly original essays from renowned international scholars trace the history of slaves, indentured servants, transported convicts, bonded soldiers, trafficked women, and coolie and Kanaka labor across the Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic Oceans. They depict the cruelty of the captivity, torture, terror, and death involved in the shipping of human cargo over the waterways of the world, which continues unabated to this day. At the same time, these essays highlight the forms of resistance and cultural creativity that have emerged from this violent history. Together, the essays accomplish what no single author could provide: a truly global context for understanding the experience of men, women, and children forced into the violent and alienating experience of bonded labor in a strange new world. This pioneering volume also begins to chart a new role of the sea as a key site where history is made.

Slave trade --- Slaves. --- Slavery. --- Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- Slaves --- Enslaved persons --- Persons --- Slavery --- History. --- History --- Slave trade -- Africa -- History. --- Enslaved persons. --- abolition. --- african slave trade. --- american civil war. --- american south. --- bonded labor. --- bonded soldiers. --- captivity. --- china sea. --- chinese labor. --- convict transportation. --- death. --- east african middle passage. --- forced migration. --- global perspective. --- history of slavery. --- history. --- human cargo. --- indentured servants. --- indian ocean. --- irish labor. --- melanesian labor trade. --- middle passage. --- migration. --- slave traders. --- slavery. --- sulu zone. --- terror. --- torture. --- trafficked women. --- transported convicts. --- voc voyages. --- yellow trade.

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Earth Sound Earth Signal is a study of energies in aesthetics and the arts, from the birth of modern communications in the nineteenth century to the global transmissions of the present day. Douglas Kahn begins by evoking the Aeolian sphere music that Henry David Thoreau heard blowing along telegraph lines and the Aelectrosonic sounds of natural radio that Thomas Watson heard through the first telephone; he then traces the histories of science, media, music, and the arts to the 1960's and beyond. Earth Sound Earth Signal rethinks energy at a global scale, from brainwaves to outer space, through detailed discussions of musicians, artists and scientists such as Alvin Lucier, Edmond Dewan, Pauline Oliveros, John Cage, James Turrell, Robert Barry, Joyce Hinterding, and many others. Earth Sound Earth Signal is a study of energies in aesthetics and the arts, from the birth of modern communications in the nineteenth century to the global transmissions of the present day. Grounded in the Aeolian sphere music that Henry David Thoreau heard blowing in telegraph lines and in the Aelectrosonic sounds of natural radio that Thomas Watson heard in telephone lines, the book moves through the histories of science, media, music, and the arts to the 1960s, when the composer Alvin Lucier worked with the ""natural electromagnetic sounds"" present from ""brainwaves to outer.

Sound in art. --- Radio noise. --- 7.01 --- Geluid ; geluiden ; klanken ; in de kunst --- Sound studies --- Sound Art --- Radiogeluiden ; radioruis ; radiosignalen --- Energetische aardstralen ; in de kunst --- Noise, Radio --- Electronic noise --- Radio astronomy --- Radio meteorology --- Kunst ; theorie, filosofie, esthetica --- Sound in art --- Radio noise --- Art --- Music --- music [performing arts] --- sound [acoustics] --- performance art --- electronic music --- sound art --- Sound in art.. --- 1960s. --- 19th century. --- aelectrosonic sounds. --- aeolian sphere music. --- aesthetics. --- artists. --- arts. --- brainwaves. --- early sound technologies. --- earth magnitude. --- energies. --- global perspective. --- global transmissions. --- henry david thoreau. --- humanities. --- media studies. --- modern communications. --- modern world. --- music history. --- musicians. --- natural radio. --- nonfiction. --- outer space. --- science historians. --- science history. --- scientists. --- sound energy. --- telegraph lines. --- telephone. --- thomas watson. --- 781.1 --- Geluidskunst --- music [performing arts genre]