The Political Economy of Global Warming

The Terminal Crisis

Del Weston (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

230 Seiten

2015
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-94156-4 (ISBN)

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Humanity is facing an unprecedented global catastrophe as a result of global warming. This book examines the reasons why international agencies, together with national governments, are seemingly unable to provide real and binding solutions to the problems. The reasons presented relate to the existing dominant global economic structure of capitalism as well as the fact that global warming is too often seen as an isolated problem rather than one of a suite of exceptional, converging and accelerating crises arising from the global capitalist political economy.

This book adopts a political economy framework to address these issues. It accepts the science of global warming but challenges the predominant politics and economics of global warming. To illustrate the key issues involved, the book draws on South Africa – building on Samir Amin’s thesis that the country represents a microcosm of the global political economy. By taking a political economy approach, the book provides a clear explanation of the deep and pervasive problem of the denial which fails to acknowledge global warming as a systemic rather than a market problem. The book should be of interest to students and scholars researching climate change, environmental politics, environmental and ecological economics, development studies and political economics.

Del Weston (1950-2012) held an Adjunct Researcher Position with Curtin University, Australia, an Honorary Research Associate position at the University of Tasmania, Australia, and was a Visiting Scholar in the Centre for Civil Society, University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa.

1. Why the inaction on global warming? 2. The state of the planet 3. Global warming – evidence, causes and projections 4. Kyoto and emissions trading schemes 5. The global political economy and global warming 6. Inequality, ecological debt and global warming 7. The metabolic rift, development, de-peasantisation 8. Africa, global warming and the future of the continent 9. South Africa – a microcosm of the global political economy 10. Alternatives 11. Conclusion: Capitalism or the Planet?

Erscheint lt. Verlag	21.8.2015
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	360 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10	1-138-94156-5 / 1138941565
ISBN-13	978-1-138-94156-4 / 9781138941564
Zustand	Neuware