Beyond Climate Fixes (eBook)

From Public Controversy to System Change

Les Levidow (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
210 Seiten
Bristol University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5292-2240-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Les Levidow argues that the current strategies for climate change mitigation perpetuate environmental harm, and offers alternative policies for real system change.

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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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.5.2023
• Verlagsort: Bristol
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften
• Schlagworte: climate change • Ecological Modernisation • Grassroots Innovation • Mobilised counter-publics • Neoliberal environmentalism • Sociotechnical design • Sociotechnical Imaginaries • System change • Techno-market fixes
• ISBN-10: 1-5292-2240-0 / 1529222400
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5292-2240-1 / 9781529222401