Parsons Carbon colonialism

How rich countries export climate breakdown
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6919-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten

Outsourcing climate breakdown shows how the impact ofclimate change, including the slow-burn disasters of droughts and floods, is traded out by wealthier countries and imported by less wealthy ones as the price of economic growth.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Parsons, Laurie

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Einkauf, Logistik, Supply-Chain-Management
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: Moving forwards, or dumping sideways? The myth of a sustainable future
Part I: Greenwashing the global factory
2: Founding the global factory: the first five hundred years
3: Consumer power in the global factory: a lucrative illusion
4: Carbon colonialism: hidden emissions in the global periphery
Part II: Manufacturing disaster in the global factory
5: Climate precarity: how global inequality shapes environmental vulnerability
6: Money talks: who gets to speak for the environment and how
7: Wolves in sheep’s clothing: how corporate logic co-opts climate action
8: Six myths that fuel carbon colonialism – and how to think differently
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Laurie Parsons is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London and Principal Investigator of the projects The Disaster Trade: The Hidden Footprint of UK Imports and Investment Overseas and Hot Trends: How the Global Garment Industry Shapes Climate Vulnerability in Cambodia. His other books include Going Nowhere Fast: Inequality in the Age of Translocality and Climate Change in the Global Workplace.