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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814918303321

Titolo

The new carbon economy / / edited by Peter Newell, Max Boykoff and Emily Boyd

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester [England], : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012

ISBN

1-283-44906-4

9786613449061

1-118-31584-7

1-118-31583-9

1-118-31593-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (205 p.)

Collana

Antipode book series

Altri autori (Persone)

NewellPeter (Peter John)

BoykoffMaxwell T

BoydEmily

Disciplina

363.738/746

Soggetti

Energy industries - Environmental aspects

Energy consumption - Environmental aspects

Energy policy - Environmental aspects

Carbon offsetting

Carbon dioxide mitigation

Environmental policy

Climatic changes - Economic aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Originally published as Volume 43, Issue 3 of Antipode."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The New Carbon Economy; Contents; List of Contributors; 1 The "New" Carbon Economy: What's New?; 2 The Matter of Carbon: Understanding the Materiality of tCO2e in Carbon Offsets; 3 Making Markets Out of Thin Air: A Case of Capital Involution; 4 Between Desire and Routine: Assembling Environment and Finance in Carbon Markets; 5 Ecological Modernisation and the Governance of Carbon: A Critical Analysis; 6 Accounting for Carbon: The Role of Accounting Professional Organisations in Governing Climate Change

7 Realizing Carbon's Value: Discourse and Calculation in the Production of Carbon Forestry Offsets in Costa Rica 8 Resisting and Reconciling Big



Wind: Middle Landscape Politics in the New American West; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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