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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Political Economy of the Low-Carbon Transition
    sub title: Pathways Beyond Techno-Optimism
  name:
    name part: Kirby, Peadar.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
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      role term: aut
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  name:
    name part: O'Mahony, Tadhg.
    role:
      role term: author.
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      role term: aut
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  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIX, 303 p. 6 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book addresses the global need to transition to a low-carbon society and economy by 2050. The authors interrogate the dominant frames used for understanding this challenge and the predominant policy approaches for achieving it. Highlighting the techno-optimism that informs our current understanding and policy options, Kirby and O'Mahony draw on the lessons of international development to situate the transition within a political economy framework. Assisted by thinking on future scenarios, they critically examine the range of pathways being implemented by both developed and developing countries, identifying the prevailing forms of climate capitalism led by technology. Based on evidence that this is inadequate to achieve a low-carbon and sustainable society, the authors identify an alternative approach. This advance emerges from community initiatives, discussions on postcapitalism and debates about wellbeing and degrowth. The re-positioning of society and environment at the core of development can be labelled "ecosocialism" - a concept which must be tempered against the conditions created by Trumpism and Brexit.
  table of contents: Section I: Climate change as problem -- Chapter 1: Defining the problem: The complex dimensions of the grave new threats we face -- Chapter 2: Framing the problem: How the climate change message is constructed -- Chapter 3: Addressing the problem: Understanding low-carbon transition with the social sciences -- Section II: Development pathways and the low-carbon future -- Chapter 4: Development models: Lessons from international development -- Chapter 5: Planning future pathways: Implications and outcomes of scenario studies -- Section III: Pathways in developed and developing countries -- Chapter 6: Development and sustainability in the wealthiest regions: Taking the high road? -- Chapter 7: Development and sustainability in the global South: Different routes to transition and a sustainable society -- Section IV: Pathways to a low-carbon future -- Chapter 8: Climate capitalism: How far can it get us? -- Chapter 9: Identifying an emerging paradigm: Towards ecosocialism? -- Chapter 10: Options and prospects for a global low-carbon transition.
  note: by Peadar Kirby, Tadhg O'Mahony.
  subject:
    topic: Political economy
  subject:
    topic: Economic development
  subject:
    topic: Social change
  subject:
    topic: Climate change
  subject:
    topic: Economic policy
  subject:
    topic: Economic development-Environmental aspects
  subject:
    topic: International Political Economy
  subject:
    topic: Development and Social Change
  subject:
    topic: Climate Change
  subject:
    topic: Climate Change Management and Policy
  subject:
    topic: Development Policy
  subject:
    topic: Development and Sustainability
  classification: JA77
  classification: 338.9
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: International Political Economy Series
  identifier: 9783319625546
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62554-6
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    record creation date: 171028
    record change date: 20191022102549.0
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