LEADER 04373nam 22006375 450 001 9910300513003321 005 20240724140058.0 010 $a9783319625546 010 $a3319625543 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-62554-6 035 $a(CKB)4100000000882909 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-62554-6 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5116571 035 $a(PPN)259471674 035 $a(Perlego)3491491 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000000882909 100 $a20171028d2018 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Political Economy of the Low-Carbon Transition $ePathways Beyond Techno-Optimism /$fby Peadar Kirby, Tadhg O'Mahony 205 $a1st ed. 2018. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource (XIX, 303 p. 6 illus. in color.) 225 1 $aInternational Political Economy Series,$x2662-2491 311 08$a9783319625539 311 08$a3319625535 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. 327 $aSection I: Climate change as problem -- Chapter 1: Defining the problem: The complex dimensions of the grave new threats we face -- Chapter 2: Framing the problem: How the climate change message is constructed -- Chapter 3: Addressing the problem: Understanding low-carbon transition with the social sciences -- Section II: Development pathways and the low-carbon future -- Chapter 4: Development models: Lessons from international development -- Chapter 5: Planning future pathways: Implications and outcomes of scenario studies -- Section III: Pathways in developed and developing countries -- Chapter 6: Development and sustainability in the wealthiest regions: Taking the high road? -- Chapter 7: Development and sustainability in the global South: Different routes to transition and a sustainable society -- Section IV: Pathways to a low-carbon future -- Chapter 8: Climate capitalism: How far can it get us? -- Chapter 9: Identifying an emerging paradigm: Towards ecosocialism? -- Chapter 10: Options and prospects for a global low-carbon transition. 330 $aThis book addresses the global need to transition to a low-carbon society and economy by 2050. The authors interrogate the dominant frames used for understanding this challenge and the predominant policy approaches for achieving it. Highlighting the techno-optimism that informs our current understanding and policy options, Kirby and O'Mahony draw on the lessons of international development to situate the transition within a political economy framework. Assisted by thinking on future scenarios, they critically examine the range of pathways being implemented by both developed and developing countries, identifying the prevailing forms of climate capitalism led by technology. Based on evidence that this is inadequate to achieve a low-carbon and sustainable society, the authors identify an alternative approach. This advance emerges from community initiatives, discussions on postcapitalism and debates about wellbeing and degrowth. The re-positioning of society and environment at the coreof development can be labelled "ecosocialism" - a concept which must be tempered against the conditions created by Trumpism and Brexit. 410 0$aInternational Political Economy Series,$x2662-2491 606 $aInternational economic relations 606 $aEconomic development 606 $aEcology 606 $aClimatology 606 $aInternational Political Economy' 606 $aDevelopment Studies 606 $aEnvironmental Sciences 606 $aClimate Sciences 615 0$aInternational economic relations. 615 0$aEconomic development. 615 0$aEcology. 615 0$aClimatology. 615 14$aInternational Political Economy'. 615 24$aDevelopment Studies. 615 24$aEnvironmental Sciences. 615 24$aClimate Sciences. 676 $a304.2 700 $aKirby$b Peadar$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0853770 702 $aO?Mahony$b Tadhg$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910300513003321 996 $aThe Political Economy of the Low-Carbon Transition$92057035 997 $aUNINA