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Climate Capitalism: Global Warming and the Transformation of the Global Economy
Peter Newell,Matthew Paterson +1 more
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The authors assesses the huge political dilemmas this poses, and the need to challenge the entrenched power of many corporations, the culture of energy use, and global inequalities in energy consumption.Abstract:
Confronting climate change is now understood as a problem of 'decarbonising' the global economy: ending our dependence on carbon-based fossil fuels. This book explores whether such a transformation is underway, how it might be accelerated, and the complex politics of this process. Given the dominance of global capitalism and free-market ideologies, decarbonisation is dependent on creating carbon markets and engaging powerful actors in the world of business and finance. Climate Capitalism assesses the huge political dilemmas this poses, and the need to challenge the entrenched power of many corporations, the culture of energy use, and global inequalities in energy consumption. Climate Capitalism is essential reading for anyone wanting to better understand the challenge we face. It will also inform a range of student courses in environmental studies, development studies, international relations, and business programmes.read more
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Green Grabbing: a new appropriation of nature?
TL;DR: In this article, the authors draw new theorisation together with cases from African, Asian and Latin American settings, and link critical studies of nature with critical agrarian studies, to ask: To what extent and in what ways do "green grabs" constitute new forms of appropriation of nature? How and when do circulations of green capital become manifest in actual appropriations on the ground, through what political and discursive dynamics? What are the implications for ecologies, landscapes and livelihoods? And who is gaining and who is losing, how are agricultural social relations, rights and authority
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Overcoming the tragedy of super wicked problems: constraining our future selves to ameliorate global climate change
TL;DR: It is argued that an “applied forward reasoning” approach is better suited for social scientists seeking to address climate change, which is characterized as a “super wicked” problem comprising four key features: time is running out, those who cause the problem also seek to provide a solution, the central authority needed to address it is weak or non-existent, and policy responses discount the future irrationally.
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
TL;DR: This Changes Everything as discussed by the authors is a must-read on our future, one of the defining and most hopeful books of this era, which upended the debate about the stormy era already upon us, exposing the myths that are clouding the climate debate.
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Governing and implementing REDD
TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce a special issue dedicated to understanding the governance and implementation dimensions of REDD+ at international, national and local levels, and highlight three main pillars for a future research agenda.
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Climate change through the lens of intersectionality
Anna Kaijser,Annica Kronsell +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, intersectional analysis of climate change illuminates how different individuals and groups relate differently to climate change, due to their situatedness in power structures based on context-specific and dynamic social categorisations.
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