| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 307 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Critical green engagements |
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Critical green engagements.
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| Contents |
1. Carbon and the synecdochical re-inscription of science -- 2. The UNFCCC negotiation process: agreeing to keep talking -- 3. Forests at the center of climate change policies -- 4. Operating transnational governance locally: REDD in Acre and Mozambique -- 5. REDD on the ground: broadening the scope, fostering vagueness and confusion |
| Summary |
"Examines how climate science, the policy-world, and neoliberalism have mutually informed and co-constituted each other in order to define the problem of climate change as one of 'market failure' - a diagnosis that implicitly restricts the imaginable solutions and concomitant policy debates to ones about how to adjust, improve, or otherwise rationalize the market. This book traces the history through which politics and science have intertwined and informed each other in order to confine debates about how to tackle climate change in ways that pre-empt any possibilities other than market-based solutions. In tracing the emergence of a conceptual apparatus that has come to operationalize greenhouse gases in terms of a singular and simplified unit (carbon) that can be commodified, and a logic that enables transaction of this unit on a global scale, this study offers insights into evolving novel forms of transnational governance and rationale for markets as governing tools"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 06, 2023) |
| Subject |
Climatic changes -- Political aspects -- Brazil
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Climatic changes -- Political aspects -- Mozambique
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Climatic changes -- International cooperation
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
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Climatic changes -- International cooperation
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Climatic changes -- Political aspects
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Brazil
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Mozambique
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2022031508 |
| ISBN |
0816546649 |
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9780816546640 |
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