Capitalism and climate change [electronic resource] : theoretical discussion, historical development and policy responses / Max Koch.
Koch, Max, 1966-
2011
HC79.E5 K63 2011eb
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Title Capitalism and climate change [electronic resource] : theoretical discussion, historical development and policy responses / Max Koch.
Author Koch, Max, 1966-
Other Title Capitalism & climate change
ISBN 9780230355088 (electronic bk.)
0230355080 (electronic bk.)
Publication Details Houndmills, Basingstoke Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xiii, 220 p.) : ill
Call Number HC79.E5 K63 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 333.71/4
Summary "This book discusses climate change as a social issue, examining the incompatibility of capitalist development and Earth'sphysical limits and how these have been regulated in different ways. It addresses the links between modes of consumption, energy regimes and climate change during Fordism and finance-driven capitalism"-- Provided by publisher.
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Introduction
Part I: Capitalist Development and the Regulation of Society and Nature: Nature and the work process; Capitalism, nature and climate change: a structural analysis; The regulation of nature and society in different capitalist growth strategies
Part II: Fordism: The origins of a ew accumulation regime; The geographic extension of Fordism; Mode of societalisation and consumption norm; A fossil energy regime
Part III: Finance-Driven Capitalism: The rise of a finance-driven accumulation regime; The recomposition of the international division of labour; A worldwide consumption norm (based on debt) and the financial crisis; The globalisation of the fossil energy regime
Part IV: The International Regulation of Climate Change or the Commodification of teh Atmosphere: Multinational governance in an unequal world: the Kyoto process and the actors involved; Theory and practice of carbon emission trading: the case of the EU ETS; The flaws of free-market solutions for climate change prevention and their homology to finance-driven capitalism
Concluding remarks.

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