Beyond Climate Fixes: From Public Controversy to System Change

Political elites have been evading the causes of climate change through deceptive fixes. Their market-type instruments such as carbon trading aim to incentivise technological innovation which will supposedly decarbonize or replace dominant high-carbon systems. In practice this techno-market framewor...

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Main Author: Levidow, Les (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol Bristol University Press [2023]
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Online Access:DE-1046
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Summary:Political elites have been evading the causes of climate change through deceptive fixes. Their market-type instruments such as carbon trading aim to incentivise technological innovation which will supposedly decarbonize or replace dominant high-carbon systems. In practice this techno-market framework has perpetuated climate change and social injustices, thus provoking public controversy. Using this opportunity, social movements have counterposed low-carbon, resource-light, socially just alternatives. Such transformative mobilisations can fulfil the popular slogan, 'System Change Not Climate Change'. This book develops key critical concepts through case studies such as GM crops, biofuels, waste incineration and Green New Deal agendas
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mai 2023)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (176 pages)
ISBN:9781529222418
DOI:10.56687/9781529222418

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