Newell / Boykoff / Boyd The New Carbon Economy

Constitution, Governance and Contestation
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-118-31594-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 276 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Antipode Book Series

The New Carbon Economy provides a critical understanding ofthe carbon economy. It offers key insights into the constitution,governance and effects of the carbon economy, across a variety ofgeographical settings.
* Examines different dimensions of the carbon economy from arange of disciplinary angles in a diversity of settings
* Provides ways for researchers to subject claims ofnewness and uniqueness to critical scrutiny
* Historicizes claims of the 'newness' of the carbon economy
* Covers a range of geographical settings including Europe, theUS and Central America

Autoren/Hrsg.

Newell, Peter

Boykoff, Max

Boyd, Emily

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Contributors vii
1 The "New" Carbon Economy: What's New?
Emily Boyd, Maxwell Boykoff and Peter Newell 1
2 The Matter of Carbon: Understanding the Materiality of tCO2ein Carbon Offsets
Adam G. Bumpus 13
3 Making Markets Out of Thin Air: A Case of CapitalInvolution
María Gutíerrez 41
4 Between Desire and Routine: Assembling Environment and Financein Carbon Markets
Philippe Descheneau and Matthew Paterson 65
5 Ecological Modernisation and the Governance of Carbon: ACritical Analysis
Ian Bailey, Andy Gouldson and Peter Newell 85
6 Accounting for Carbon: The Role of Accounting ProfessionalOrganisations in Governing Climate Change
Heather Lovell and Donald MacKenzie 107
7 Realizing Carbon's Value: Discourse and Calculation inthe Production of Carbon Forestry Offsets in Costa Rica
David M. Lansing 135
8 Resisting and Reconciling Big Wind: Middle Landscape Politicsin the New American West
Roopali Phadke 159
Index 183

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Newell is Professor of International Relations at theUniversity of Sussex. Prior to this he was Professor of DevelopmentStudies at the University of East Anglia and held posts at theOxford University Centre for the Environment, the Centre for theStudy of Globalization and Regionalization at Warwick University,the Institute of Development Studies (Sussex), FLACSO Argentina andClimate Network Europe in Brussels. He is associate editor of thejournal Global Environmental Politics. His climatepublications include Climate for Change (2000), TheBusiness of Global Environmental Governance (2005), ClimateCapitalism (2010), and Governing Climate Change (2010).
Maxwell Boykoff is an Assistant Professor in theCooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences Centerfor Science and Technology Policy Research at the University ofColorado-Boulder. In addition, he is a Senior Visiting ResearchAssociate in the Environmental Change Institute at the Universityof Oxford. His publications include the books Who Speaks forClimate?: Making Sense of Media Reporting on Climate Change(2011), and the edited volume The Politics of Climate Change(2009).
Emily Boyd is a Reader in Environmental Change and HumanCommunities in the Department of Geography and EnvironmentalSciences at the University of Reading. Previously Emily was alecturer in Environment and Development in the School of Earth andEnvironment at the University of Leeds, and deputy director of theLeeds University Centre for Global Development. In addition, Emilyis also a visiting researcher at Oxford University and theStockholm Resilience Centre. Her publications include ClimateChange a Beginners Guide (2010) and Adapting Institutions,Governance and Complexity: Insights for Social-ecologicalResilience (2011, in press).