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Author |
: Del Weston |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 249 |
Release |
: 2014-04-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781135084936 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1135084939 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Political Economy of Global Warming by : Del Weston
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 |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 386 |
Release |
: 2016-04-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781137496737 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1137496738 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Political Economy of Climate Change Adaptation by : Benjamin K. Sovacool
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 |
: Noam Chomsky |
Publisher |
: Verso Books |
Total Pages |
: 193 |
Release |
: 2020-09-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781788739856 |
ISBN-13 |
: 178873985X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal by : Noam Chomsky
An engaging conversation with Noam Chomsky—revered public intellectual and Manufacturing Consent author—about climate change, capitalism, and how a global Green New Deal can save the planet. 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 |
: Sujata Gupta |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 464 |
Release |
: 2005-10-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134750658 |
ISBN-13 |
: 113475065X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis Argument in the Greenhouse by : Sujata Gupta
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 |
Total Pages |
: 383 |
Release |
: 2015 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107069213 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107069211 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis The United States in a Warming World by : Thomas L. Brewer
Balanced factual and conceptual analysis of the political and economic factors that shape the United States' responses to climate change.
Author |
: Douglas Arent |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 631 |
Release |
: 2017 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780198802242 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0198802242 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Political Economy of Clean Energy Transitions by : Douglas Arent
A volume on the political economy of clean energy transition in developed and developing regions, with a focus on the issues that different countries face as they transition from fossil fuels to lower carbon technologies.
Author |
: Noam Chomsky |
Publisher |
: Verso Books |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2020-09-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781788739863 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1788739868 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal by : Noam Chomsky
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 |
: Dipankar Dey |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:1375120625 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Political Economy of Global Warming and Its Changing Strategic Role by : Dipankar Dey
To a military strategist of the last century when nation states were eager to retain their sovereign power, weather was a potential weapon. In the 21st century, when the role of the nation states is being redefined, the strategic importance of weather may have changed. This paper has been divided into three sections were the changing importance of climate, in a TNC (transnational corporation) dominated world order has been analyzed. The first section, briefly discusses the genesis of the global warming concept - its scientific basis, economic consequence and political motives. The second section, deals with the major developments in the global warming issue during the period between the Rio Earth Summit and ratification of Kyoto protocol in 2005. This section we also highlights the fact that within a decade of its declaration, the basic objectives of the Rio Earth Summit have been distorted systematically confirming to the suspicion that from its inception, the objectives were not seriously taken up by the leaders. In this new century, the TNCs would play more important role than the sovereign nation states, in developing rules and regulations of different multilateral treaties, pertaining to important issues like climate change, intellectual property rights etc. The power of the nation states is eroding very fast. The TNCs with the help of mainstream global media, on which they have almost total control, are capable to systematically establish or suppress any 'scientific' view, which are important for their strategic planning. Under this changed power structure, old strategies and tactics are bound to change. 'Weather' which had a strategic importance as 'weapon' to a nation state during cold war period, is likely to have a strategic importance of different type (as 'economic good') to a TNC dominated world order of this century. Now the emphasis is more on economics than politics. The paradigm shift is very clear and distinct. The third section discusses the implications of the Kyoto Protocol on the global environment and energy market. By shifting environmentally hazardous activities to the fund-starved poorer countries, pollutions will be 'parceled out' to the Southern states. The responsibility of reducing the 'green house gas' has been shifted already to the less polluting developing countries by promising a few extra dollars. The Kyoto protocol basically has done this through its much-hyped clean development mechanism. However, few civil societies in the North have taken initiatives to correct this practice. The study concludes with the observation that in an integrated global economy, where TNCs have developed alliances with their local partners for further consolidation of their power, an international alliance of consumer and civil societies to safeguard common citizens' interest across the globe is essential. Fortunately few initiatives to this effect have been made. In the absence of such a coordinated effort, Southern countries, as before, will remain at the receiving ends and would be treated as dump yards for Northern wastes and pollutants.
Author |
: William D. Nordhaus |
Publisher |
: MIT Press |
Total Pages |
: 258 |
Release |
: 2003-08-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0262640546 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780262640541 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis Warming the World by : William D. Nordhaus
This book presents in detail a pair of models of the economics of climate change. The models, called RICE-99 (for the Regional Dynamic Integrated model of Climate and the Economy) and DICE-99 (for the Dynamic Integrated Model of Climate and the Economy) build on the authors' earlier work, particularly their RICE and DICE models of the early 1990s. Humanity is risking the health of the natural environment through a myriad of interventions, including the atmospheric emission of trace gases such as carbon dioxide, the use of ozone-depleting chemicals, the engineering of massive land-use changes, and the destruction of the habitats of many species. It is imperative that we learn to protect our common geophysical and biological resources. Although scientists have studied greenhouse warming for decades, it is only recently that society has begun to consider the economic, political, and institutional aspects of environmental intervention. To do so raises formidable challenges of data modeling, uncertainty, international coordination, and institutional design. Attempts to deal with complex scientific and economic issues have increasingly involved the use of models to help analysts and decision makers understand likely future outcomes as well as the implications of alternative policies. This book presents in detail a pair of models of the economics of climate change. The models, called RICE-99 (for the Regional Dynamic Integrated model of Climate and the Economy) and DICE-99 (for the Dynamic Integrated Model of Climate and the Economy) build on the authors' earlier work, particularly their RICE and DICE models of the early 1990s. They can help policy makers design better economic and environmental policies.
Author |
: Janelle Kallie Knox |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 344 |
Release |
: 2016 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780198718451 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0198718454 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cultures of Markets by : Janelle Kallie Knox
Climate change is one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century. Countries around the globe are developing emissions markets as a response to it. This book examines the cultures of these markets, arguing policy makers must include more flexibility in climate policy to allow emissions markets to be translated and transferred across regions.