| Description |
1 online resource |
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Routledge Studies in Environmental Policy |
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Routledge studies in environmental policy.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Zombie markets or zombie analyses? Revivifying the politics of carbon markets; Part I The politics of carbon before carbon; 2 Resources for the future, resources for growth: the making of the 1975 growth ban; 3 Politics by other means: the making of the emissions trading instrument as a 'pre-history' of carbon trading; 4 Allometric equations and timber markets: an important forerunner of REDD+?; 5 Virtuous carbon; Part II The politics of carbon |
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6 A neo-Gramscian account of carbon markets: the cases of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme and the Clean Development Mechanism7 The politics of carbon markets in the global South; 8 Carbon governance in China by the creation of a carbon market; 9 The currencies of carbon: carbon money and its social meaning; Part III The politics of carbon after carbon; 10 The politics of researching carbon trading in Australia; 11 Dialogue of the deaf? The CDM's legitimation crisis; 12 The post- and future politics of green economy and REDD+ |
| Summary |
"The carbon markets are in the middle of a fundamental crisis - a crisis marked by collapsing prices, fleeing actors, and ever increasing greenhouse gas levels. Yet carbon trading remains at the heart of global attempts to respond to climate change. Not only this, but markets continue to proliferate - particularly in the Global South. The Politics of Carbon Markets helps to make sense of this paradox and brings two urgently needed insights to the analysis of carbon markets. First, the markets must be understood in relation to the politics involved in their development, maintenance and opposition. Second, this politics is multiform and pervasive. Implementation of new techniques and measuring tools, policy development and contestation, and the structuring context of institutional settings and macro-social forces all involve a variety of political actors and create new forms of political agency. The contributions study the total extent of the carbon markets, from their prehistory to their contemporary expansion and wider impacts. This wide-ranging political perspective on the carbon markets is invaluable to those studying and interested in ecological markets, climate change governance and environmental politics"-- Provided by publisher |
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"Today's beleaguered yet expanding carbon market represents a type of relationship between economy and ecology scarcely imaginable forty years ago. This collection brings together a comprehensive array of perspectives to critically scrutinise the development and on-going maintenance of this global carbon market. The book's contributors recognise that the market itself, as well as the notion of the environment that it instantiates, is highly political and contested; thus the chapters investigate the market system and its insertion into and influence on climate and environmental governance within the global political economy"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Title from PDF title page (viewed on September 10, 2014) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Emissions trading -- Political aspects
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Carbon offsetting -- Political aspects
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Carbon dioxide mitigation -- Political aspects
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Air -- Pollution -- Political aspects
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Environmental policy.
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environmental policy.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Economic Development.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Sustainable Development.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Environmental Economics.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Air -- Pollution -- Political aspects.
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Environmental policy.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Stephan, Benjamin
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Lane, Richard (Research student, University of Sussex)
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| ISBN |
9781134590056 |
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1134590059 |
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9781315886985 |
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1315886987 |
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1322094268 |
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9781322094267 |
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9780415707138 |
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0415707137 |
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