1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451433803321

Titolo

Global warming and East Asia : the domestic and international politics of climate change / / edited by Paul G. Harris

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003

ISBN

1-134-37621-9

1-134-37622-7

0-203-56340-9

1-280-02290-6

9786610022908

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (284 p.)

Collana

Routledge research in environmental politics ; ; 4

Altri autori (Persone)

HarrisPaul G

Disciplina

363.738/74/095

363.73874095

Soggetti

Climatic changes - Environmental aspects - East Asia

Climatic changes - Environmental aspects - Southeast Asia

Climatic changes - Government policy - East Asia

Climatic changes - Government policy - Southeast Asia

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Perspectives on the politics of climate change in East Asia; Introduction: the politics and foreign policy of global warming in East Asia; Climate change priorities for East Asia: socio-economic impacts and international justice; China and the politics of climate change; Chinese politics, energy policy, and the international climate change negotiations; The forces behind China's climate change policy: interests, sovereignty, and prestige

Navigating between ~luxury~ and ~survival~ emissions: tensions in China's multilateral and bilateral climate change diplomacyThe Clean Development Mechanism and China's energy sector: opportunities and barriers; Formulating climate change policy in Japan; Climate change as Japanese foreign policy: from reactive to proactive; Development assistance and Japan's climate change diplomacy: priorities and future



options; Knowledge in the global atmospheric policy process: the case of Japan; Beyond Kyoto: the formation of a Japanese climate change regime

The costs and opportunities of climate change in Southeast AsiaThe Philippines in the climate change arena; Cashing in on Kyoto?: lessons from Indonesia for emissions offset projects; Climate change investment and technology transfer in Southeast Asia; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Examines the domestic politics, foreign policy and international relations of climate change in China, Japan and Southeast Asia, often disproportionately affected; increasing our understanding of a region vital to mitigating and coping with climate

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784252003321

Autore

Gullì Bruno <1959->

Titolo

Labor of fire [[electronic resource] ] : the ontology of labor between economy and culture / / Bruno Gullì

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, PA, : Temple University Press, 2005

ISBN

1-281-09385-8

9786611093853

1-59213-114-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (229 p.)

Collana

Labor in crisis

Disciplina

331/.01

Soggetti

Labor - Philosophy

Work - Philosophy

Marxian economics

Capitalism

Economics - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-210) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Ontology of Labor: Problems of the Relationship between Philosophy and Political Economy; REMARK: The Productive Power of Capital; 2 On the Difference between Living Labor and Productive Labor; REMARK: 1



Dialectic and metaphysics; REMARK: 2 Vulgar metaphysics and poetic metaphysics; 3 Radicalizing the Ontology of Labor: Institution and Utopia; 4 The Solitude of Labor: On the Relationship between Creative Labor and Artistic Production; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In Labor of Fire, Bruno Gullì offers a timely and much needed re-examination of the concept of labor. Distinguishing between ""productive labor"" (working for money or subsistence) and ""living labor"" (working for artistic creation), Gullì convincingly argues for a definition of work that recognizes the importance of artistic and social creativity to our definition of labor and the self. Gullì lays the groundwork for his book by offering a critique of productive labor, and then maps out his productive/living labor distinction in detail, reviewing the work of Marx and other