The Political Economy Of Global Warming

Author : Del Weston
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135084936

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The Political Economy of Global Warming by Del Weston Pdf

Humanity is facing an unprecedented global catastrophe as a result of global warming. This book examines the reasons why international agencies, together with national governments, are seemingly unable to provide real and binding solutions to the problems. The reasons presented relate to the existing dominant global economic structure of capitalism as well as the fact that global warming is too often seen as an isolated problem rather than one of a suite of exceptional, converging and accelerating crises arising from the global capitalist political economy. This book adopts a political economy framework to address these issues. It accepts the science of global warming but challenges the predominant politics and economics of global warming. To illustrate the key issues involved, the book draws on South Africa – building on Samir Amin’s thesis that the country represents a microcosm of the global political economy. By taking a political economy approach, the book provides a clear explanation of the deep and pervasive problem of the denial which fails to acknowledge global warming as a systemic rather than a market problem. The book should be of interest to students and scholars researching climate change, environmental politics, environmental and ecological economics, development studies and political economics.

Author : Benjamin K. Sovacool,Björn-Ola Linnér
Publisher : Springer
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137496737

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The Political Economy of Climate Change Adaptation by Benjamin K. Sovacool,Björn-Ola Linnér Pdf

Drawing on concepts in political economy, political ecology, justice theory, and critical development studies, the authors offer the first comprehensive, systematic exploration of the ways in which adaptation projects can produce unintended, undesirable results. This work is on the Global Policy: Next Generation list of six key books for understanding the politics of global climate change.

Author : Sujata Gupta,Stephen Hall,Nick Mabey,Clare Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005-10-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134750658

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Argument in the Greenhouse by Sujata Gupta,Stephen Hall,Nick Mabey,Clare Smith Pdf

How can greenhouse gases be controlled and reduced? Will it be in time? This book adds a significant new contribution to the crucial climate change/global warming debate. Incorporating the key political and legal considerations into `real world' applied economic analysis, the authors provide a unique focus on the wider political economy of the problem. All the key issues of controlling climate change (costs, timing and degree of stabilisation, ecological taxt reform, developing countries, and evolution of international agreements), are placed firmly within the current legal and political context, with state-of-the-art economic techniques introduced to analyse different policy proposals. Covering both the developing and developed world, this book identifies important new policies to foster effective agreements on eissions and prevent global warming - realistic policies, likely to receive support at both international and domestic levels. be in time? This book adds a significant new contribution to the crucial climate change/global warming debate. Incorporating the key political and legal considerations into 'real world' applied economic analysis, the book's authors provide a unique focus on the wider political economy of the problem. All the key issues of controlling climate change (costs, timing and degree of stabilisation, ecological tax reform, developing countries and evolution of international agreements), are placed firmly within the current legal and political economy context, with state-of-the-art economic techniques introduced to analyse different policy proposals. Covering both the developing and developed world, this book identifies important new policies to foster effective agreements on emmissions and prevent global warming - realistic policies which are likely to receive support at both international and domestic levels.

Author : Thomas L. Brewer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107069213

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The United States in a Warming World by Thomas L. Brewer Pdf

Balanced factual and conceptual analysis of the political and economic factors that shape the United States' responses to climate change.

Author : Noam Chomsky,Robert Pollin
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781788739863

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Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal by Noam Chomsky,Robert Pollin Pdf

Climate change: watershed or endgame? In this compelling new book, Noam Chomsky, the world’s leading public intellectual, and Robert Pollin, a renowned progressive economist, map out the catastrophic consequences of unchecked climate change—and present a realistic blueprint for change: the Green New Deal. Together, Chomsky and Pollin show how the forecasts for a hotter planet strain the imagination: vast stretches of the Earth will become uninhabitable, plagued by extreme weather, drought, rising seas, and crop failure. Arguing against the misplaced fear of economic disaster and unemployment arising from the transition to a green economy, they show how this bogus concern encourages climate denialism. Humanity must stop burning fossil fuels within the next thirty years and do so in a way that improves living standards and opportunities for working people. This is the goal of the Green New Deal and, as the authors make clear, it is entirely feasible. Climate change is an emergency that cannot be ignored. This book shows how it can be overcome both politically and economically.

Author : Peter Newell,Matthew Paterson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521127288

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Climate Capitalism by Peter Newell,Matthew Paterson Pdf

Explores how we should react to the political dilemmas of adapting the global economy to confront climate change.

Author : Stefan Gaarsmand Jacobsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781315306179

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Climate Justice and the Economy by Stefan Gaarsmand Jacobsen Pdf

As climate change has increasingly become the main focus of environmentalist activism since the late 1990s, the global economic drivers of CO2 emissions are now a major concern for radical greens. In turn, the emphasis on connected crises in both natural and social systems has attracted more activists to the Climate Justice movement and created a common cause between activists from the Global South and North. In the absence of a pervasive narrative of transnational or socialist economic planning to prevent catastrophic climate change, these activists have been eager to engage with advanced knowledge and ideas on political and economic structures that diminish risks and allow for new climate agency. This book breaks new ground by investigating what kind of economy the Climate Justice movement is calling for us to build and how the struggle for economic change has unfolded so far. Examining ecological debt, just transition, indigenous ecologies, social ecology, community economies and divestment among other topics, the authors provide a critical assessment and a common ground for future debate on economic innovation via social mobilization. Taking a transdisciplinary approach that synthesizes political economy, history, theory and ethnography, this volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate justice, environmental politics and policy, environmental economics and sustainable development.

Author : Ian Gough
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-27
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 9781785365119

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Heat, Greed and Human Need by Ian Gough Pdf

This book builds an essential bridge between climate change and social policy. Combining ethics and human need theory with political economy and climate science, it offers a long-term, interdisciplinary analysis of the prospects for sustainable development and social justice. Beyond ‘green growth’ (which assumes an unprecedented rise in the emissions efficiency of production) it envisages two further policy stages vital for rich countries: a progressive ‘recomposition’ of consumption, and a post-growth ceiling on demand. An essential resource for scholars and policymakers.

Author : Roger Bate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : IND:39000003094591

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The Political Economy of Climate Change Science by Roger Bate Pdf

Author : Peadar Kirby,Tadhg O’Mahony
Publisher : Springer
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319625546

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The Political Economy of the Low-Carbon Transition by Peadar Kirby,Tadhg O’Mahony Pdf

This book addresses the global need to transition to a low-carbon society and economy by 2050. The authors interrogate the dominant frames used for understanding this challenge and the predominant policy approaches for achieving it. Highlighting the techno-optimism that informs our current understanding and policy options, Kirby and O’Mahony draw on the lessons of international development to situate the transition within a political economy framework. Assisted by thinking on future scenarios, they critically examine the range of pathways being implemented by both developed and developing countries, identifying the prevailing forms of climate capitalism led by technology. Based on evidence that this is inadequate to achieve a low-carbon and sustainable society, the authors identify an alternative approach. This advance emerges from community initiatives, discussions on postcapitalism and debates about wellbeing and degrowth. The re-positioning of society and environment at the core of development can be labelled “ecosocialism” – a concept which must be tempered against the conditions created by Trumpism and Brexit.

Author : Janelle Kallie Knox
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780198718451

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The Cultures of Markets by Janelle Kallie Knox Pdf

This book explores the establishment of emissions trading as a form of environmental, market-based governance. It conceptualizes markets as institutions, and analyzes them as a system of climate governance. To this end, it argues that international efforts to promulgate markets run up against local cultures of markets that shape economic practices and knowledge to different degrees. The book also examines the material implications of emissions markets on the environment and climatic systems. In sum, the study finds that cultures of markets present a substantial challenge to a universalist prescription for resolving climate change and highlights issues at the interface of political and economic governance in different political economies. This includes issues of citizen, state, and industry participation, and the materiality of economic and financial productivity.

Author : Peter Newell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108832854

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Power Shift by Peter Newell Pdf

A novel, interdisciplinary account of the global politics of producing, financing, governing and mobilising energy system transformation.

Author : Graciela Chichilnisky,Armon Rezai
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 180392005X

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Handbook on the Economics of Climate Change by Graciela Chichilnisky,Armon Rezai Pdf

This timely Handbook recognizes the emergence of climate change as the defining topic of our time. With public climate discourse growing more urgent every year, this Handbook brings together international experts from different economic disciplines to answer critical climate policy questions. Chapters present key ideas and policies to support and accelerate advances in three key areas: the political economy of climate change and climate policy, integrated assessment modelling, and economic and resource sustainability. Contributors discuss the distributional implications of climate change and how policymakers may respond in order to contribute to economic transformation in the midst of a global crisis. With reference to both theoretical and applied economics, this Handbook is critical reading for economists working in the field of climate policy and climate change. It will also appeal to a broader group of environmental scientists and scholars. Contributors include L.M. Abadie, G.B. Asheim, J.K. Boyce, W.A. Brock, M. Budolfson, G. Chichilnisky, N. Chichilnisky-Heal, F. Dennig, J. Doyne Farmer, D.K. Foley, I. Galarraga, R. Hahnel, J. Hartwick, G. Heal, C. Hepburn, C. Hope, D. Iris, A. Markandya, P. Mealy, T. Mitra, T. Narasimhan, F. Nesje, I. Parry, A. Rezai, E. Sainz de Murieta, N. Schofield, B. Shang, A. Tavoni, L. Taylor, R. van der Ploeg, N. Vernon, P. Wingender, C. Withagen, A. Xepapadeas

Author : Jennifer Clapp,Peter Dauvergne
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0262532719

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Paths to a Green World by Jennifer Clapp,Peter Dauvergne Pdf

Examines the debates over the causes and consequences of environmental change from economic, political, ecological, and social perspectives.

Author : Leigh Glover,Mikael Granberg
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030462055

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The Politics of Adapting to Climate Change by Leigh Glover,Mikael Granberg Pdf

This book examines the political themes and policy perspectives related to, and influencing, climate change adaptation. It provides an informed primer on the politics of adaptation, a topic largely overlooked in the current scholarship and literature, and addresses questions such as why these politics are so important, what they mean, and what their implications are. The book also reviews various political texts on adaptation.