{"title":"John Urry","description":"\u003cp\u003eJohn Urry's work offers insightful explorations into the changing landscapes of society and the environment. His books delve into topics such as the impact of climate change, the future of industry, and the evolving relationship between technology and everyday life, making complex social and scientific issues accessible to readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCombining rigorous research with engaging analysis, Urry invites readers to reconsider traditional perspectives on mobility, energy, and societal transformation. His writing is essential for those interested in the intersections of \u003cem\u003escience, nature,\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003esocial change.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"after-the-car-by-john-urry-9780745644219","title":"After the Car","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is difficult to imagine a world without the car, and yet that is exactly what Dennis and Urry set out to do in this provocative new book. They argue that the days of the car are numbered: powerful forces around the world are undermining the car system and will usher in a new transport system sometime in the next few decades. Specifically, the book examines how several major processes are shaping the future of how we travel, including:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eGlobal warming and its many global consequences\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003ePeaking of oil supplies\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eIncreased digitisation of many aspects of economic and social life\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eMassive global population increases\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe authors look at changes in technology, policy, economy and society, and make a convincing argument for a future where, by necessity, the present car system will be re-designed and re-engineered.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYet the book also suggests that there are some hugely bleak dilemmas facing the twenty-first century. The authors lay out what they consider to be possible 'post-car' future scenarios. These they describe as 'local sustainability', 'regional warlordism' and 'digital networks of control'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAfter the Car\u003c\/i\u003e will be of great interest to planners, policy makers, social scientists, futurologists, those working in industry, as well as general readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSome have described the 20th Century as the century of the car. 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So far, the discipline that has represented and modelled such human behaviour is economics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy contrast, \u003ci\u003eClimate Change and Society\u003c\/i\u003e tries to place the ‘social’ at the heart of both the analysis of climates and the assessment of alternative futures. It demonstrates the importance of social practices organised into systems. In the fateful twentieth century, various interlocking high carbon systems were established. This sedimented high carbon social practices, engendering huge population growth, increasing greenhouse gas emissions and the potentially declining availability of oil that made this world go round. Especially important in stabilising this pattern was the ‘carbon military-industrial complex’ around the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book goes on to examine how in this new century, it is systems that have to change, to move from growing high carbon systems to those that are low carbon. Many suggestions are made as to how to innovate such low carbon systems. It is shown that such a transition has to happen fast to create positive feedbacks of each low carbon system upon each other. Various scenarios are elaborated of differing futures for the middle of this century, futures that all contain significant costs for the scale, extent, and richness of social life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eClimate Change and Society\u003c\/i\u003e thus attempts to replace economics with sociology as the dominant discipline in climate change analysis. Sociology has spent much time examining the nature of modern societies, of modernity, but mostly failed to analyse the carbon resource base of such societies. This book seeks to remedy that failing. 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