Post-growth Politics A Critical Theoretical and Policy Framework for Decarbonisation /

• Main Author: Ferguson, Peter (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Energy policy.; Energy and state.; Economic growth.; Political science.; Environmental law.; Environmental policy.; Economic policy.; Energy Policy, Economics and Management.; Economic Growth.; Political Science.; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice.; R & D/Technology Policy.

This book uses a critical political economy approach to develop an historically and politically grounded set of strategies for states to move toward a post-growth, decarbonised global economy. It begins by examining the social and ecological costs of and limits to economic growth and determines that...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• A brief history of the carbon economy
• Economic growth in a carbon constrained world
• Macroeconomic policy
• Microeconomic policy
• The scope and purpose of regulation
• Post-carbon geopolitics
• Conclusion.