Barthold analyzes the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group to illustrate how city networks are powerful actors in the global dissemination of eco-modernization strategies aimed at decoupling economic growth from environmental degradation.

This volume of Perspectives offers case studies of energy transitions within everyday environments over the last two centuries, from Europe to South Asia, to North and Latin America.

Ruth Sandwell examines people’s energy-related experiences in the transition from the organic to the mineral fuel regime in Canada.

Sean Patrick Adams explores coal storage and expansion in nineteenth-century America.