Carbon Colonialism

Author : Laurie Parsons
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526169177
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Carbon colonialism written by Laurie Parsons and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-23 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around the world, leading economies are announcing significant progress on climate change. World leaders are queuing up to proclaim their commitment to tackling the climate crisis, pointing to data that shows the progress they have made. Yet the atmosphere is still warming at a record rate, with devastating effects on poverty and precarity in the world’s most vulnerable communities. Are we being deceived? Climate change is devastating the planet, and globalisation is hiding it. This book opens our eyes. Carbon colonialism explores the murky practices of outsourcing a country’s environmental impact, where emissions and waste are exported from rich countries to poorer ones; a world in which corporations and countries are allowed to maintain a clean, green image while landfills in the world’s poorest countries continue to expand, and droughts and floods intensify under the auspices of globalisation, deregulation and economic growth. Taking a wide-ranging, culturally engaged approach to the topic, the book shows how this is not only a technical problem, but a problem of cultural and political systems and structures – from nationalism to economic logic – deeply embedded in our society.

Author : Richard Peet
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136904328
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Political Ecology written by Richard Peet and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-12-17 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world is caught in the mesh of a series of environmental crises. So far attempts at resolving the deep basis of these have been superficial and disorganized. Global Political Ecology links the political economy of global capitalism with the political ecology of a series of environmental disasters and failed attempts at environmental policies. This critical volume draws together contributions from twenty-five leading intellectuals in the field. It begins with an introductory chapter that introduces the readers to political ecology and summarizes the books main findings. The following seven sections cover topics on the political ecology of war and the disaster state; fuelling capitalism: energy scarcity and abundance; global governance of health, bodies, and genomics; the contradictions of global food; capital’s marginal product: effluents, waste, and garbage; water as a commodity, a human right, and power; the functions and dysfunctions of the global green economy; political ecology of the global climate, and carbon emissions. This book contains accounts of the main currents of thought in each area that bring the topics completely up-to-date. The individual chapters contain a theoretical introduction linking in with the main themes of political ecology, as well as empirical information and case material. Global Political Ecology serves as a valuable reference for students interested in political ecology, environmental justice, and geography.

Author : Victor Seow
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226826554
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Carbon Technocracy written by Victor Seow and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2023-05-12 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A forceful reckoning with the relationship between energy and power through the history of what was once East Asia’s largest coal mine. The coal-mining town of Fushun in China’s Northeast is home to a monstrous open pit. First excavated in the early twentieth century, this pit grew like a widening maw over the ensuing decades, as various Chinese and Japanese states endeavored to unearth Fushun’s purportedly “inexhaustible” carbon resources. Today, the depleted mine that remains is a wondrous and terrifying monument to fantasies of a fossil-fueled future and the technologies mobilized in attempts to turn those developmentalist dreams into reality. In Carbon Technocracy, Victor Seow uses the remarkable story of the Fushun colliery to chart how the fossil fuel economy emerged in tandem with the rise of the modern technocratic state. Taking coal as an essential feedstock of national wealth and power, Chinese and Japanese bureaucrats, engineers, and industrialists deployed new technologies like open-pit mining and hydraulic stowage in pursuit of intensive energy extraction. But as much as these mine operators idealized the might of fossil fuel–driven machines, their extractive efforts nevertheless relied heavily on the human labor that those devices were expected to displace. Under the carbon energy regime, countless workers here and elsewhere would be subjected to invasive techniques of labor control, ever-escalating output targets, and the dangers of an increasingly exploited earth. Although Fushun is no longer the coal capital it once was, the pattern of aggressive fossil-fueled development that led to its ascent endures. As we confront a planetary crisis precipitated by our extravagant consumption of carbon, it holds urgent lessons. This is a groundbreaking exploration of how the mutual production of energy and power came to define industrial modernity and the wider world that carbon made.

Author : Benjamin Stephan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134590059
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Carbon Markets written by Benjamin Stephan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-27 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The carbon markets are in the middle of a fundamental crisis - a crisis marked by collapsing prices, fleeing actors, and ever increasing greenhouse gas levels. Yet carbon trading remains at the heart of global attempts to respond to climate change. Not only this, but markets continue to proliferate - particularly in the Global South. The Politics of Carbon Markets helps to make sense of this paradox and brings two urgently needed insights to the analysis of carbon markets. First, the markets must be understood in relation to the politics involved in their development, maintenance and opposition. Second, this politics is multiform and pervasive. Implementation of new techniques and measuring tools, policy development and contestation, and the structuring context of institutional settings and macro-social forces all involve a variety of political actors and create new forms of political agency. The contributions study the total extent of the carbon markets, from their prehistory to their contemporary expansion and wider impacts. This wide-ranging political perspective on the carbon markets is invaluable to those studying and interested in ecological markets, climate change governance and environmental politics.

Author : Andreas Malm
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1839761741
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book White Skin, Black Fuel written by Andreas Malm and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rising temperatures and the rise of the far right. What disasters happen when they meet? In the first study of the far right’s role in the climate crisis, White Skin, Black Fuel presents an eye-opening sweep of a novel political constellation, revealing its deep historical roots. Fossil-fuelled technologies were born steeped in racism. No one loved them more passionately than the classical fascists. Now right-wing forces have risen to the surface, some professing to have the solution—closing borders to save the nation as the climate breaks down. Epic and riveting, White Skin, Black Fuel traces a future of political fronts that can only heat up.

Author : Erkin Erdoğan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000963446
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Low Carbon Transition in Emerging Economies written by Erkin Erdoğan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-15 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many emerging economies are on the front line of the devastating impacts of global warming such as desertification and extreme weather events, but, for historical and political reasons, they follow ambitious growth targets with seemingly little concern for climate change and environmental degradation. Focusing on the case of Turkey, this book investigates the economic impacts of possible climate change policies to help meet the required mitigation targets and transition to a low carbon economy. In order to reach net-zero targets by 2050 in compliance with the Paris Agreement, Turkey must introduce policies that promote low carbon investments, green jobs and low carbon employment more broadly. This book explores the empirical evidence on the effectiveness of a carbon pricing mechanism by developing an econometric vector autoregression (VAR) model to analyse key data sets. This time series analysis provides insights on a macro level, dealing with aggregate data in which the role and complexity of micro interferences disappear, allowing for the discovery of patterns and changes over time. Thus, the book contributes to the literature on methodology by arguing that time series analysis is one of the best-fitting approaches to estimate possible impacts of climate change policies on an economy. Additionally, the results of the model are compared and contrasted with similar data from other emerging economies to identify potential common policy solutions between countries at a similar stage of development. This book is vital reading for researchers interested in climate policy, the economics of climate change and environmental economics.

Author : Jeannine Bardo and
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781715334796
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Carbon Imaginary written by Jeannine Bardo and and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CATALOGUE FOR / The Carbon ImaginaryIsabella Jacob, Jemila MacEwan and Kai FranzSeptember 11 -- October 31, 2020curated by Jeannine Bardo and John RosDo rocks listen? Can rocks die? In our current age of the Anthropocene, a disputed term used for the geological epoch during which human activity has been the dominant influence on Earth's climate and the environment, anthropologist and critical theorist Elizabeth Povinelli, asks the above questions as a challenge to the destructive systems of settler colonialism, a form of colonialism that seeks to replace the Indigenous population with the settler population, and late liberal capitalism by bringing into focus the relationship between Nonlife entities and Life. Povinelli posits The Carbon Imaginary as an "in between", what exists between Bios (Life) and Geos (Nonlife). This "in between" is the separation we have formed by elevating Bios and commodifying Geos as if they are separate entities instead of parts of the whole, an assemblage of living and nonliving substances that breathe in and out as one. We need a language of the ages, an understanding of the past, an informed knowledge of the present and humanity's role in the current collapse of ecosystems and a high regard for what that future that will be. The artists of The Carbon Imaginary have their own aesthetic language that speaks of/ to and for elements of the Geos and the human connection to non-life entities through artistic process and use of materials. Their work inhabits "the pulsing scarred region between Life and Nonlife" and makes us pay attention -- by contributing their own literacy to the language of the Geos.

Author : Marcus Nüsser
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400727984
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Large Dams in Asia written by Marcus Nüsser and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-18 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the multi-dimensional asymmetries of scale, time, and directions in the large dam controversy with a regional focus on Asia, especially on India and China. Whereas the concept of large-scale transformation of fluvial environments into technological hydroscapes originated in the West, widespread construction of large dams started in the countries of the Global South in the period after decolonisation. Construction and operation of large dams are amongst the most prestigious but also most sensitive development issues, often accompanied by massive resistance of adversely affected people and civil society organisations. Based on the notion of a contested politicised environment, various case studies are analysed to identify the dominant narratives and imaginations that shape the large dams debate. This volume largely contains contributions related to several subprojects from within the Cluster of Excellence ‘Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows’, based at Heidelberg University, with several expert contributions from external researchers.

Author : Anita Girvan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317218655
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Carbon Footprints as Cultural-Ecological Metaphors written by Anita Girvan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an examination of carbon footprint metaphors, this books demonstrates the ways in which climate change and other ecological issues are culturally and materially constituted through metaphor. The carbon footprint metaphor has achieved a ubiquitous presence in Anglo-North American public contexts since the turn of the millennium, yet this metaphor remains under-examined as a crucial mediator of political responses to the urgent crisis of climate change. Existing books and articles on the carbon footprint typically treat this metaphor as a quantifying metric, with little attention to the shifting mediations and practices of the carbon footprint as a metaphor. This gap echoes a wider gap in understanding metaphors as key figures in mediating more-than-human relations at a time when such relations profoundly matter. As a timely intervention, this book addresses this gap by using insights from environmental humanities and political ecology to discuss carbon footprint metaphors in popular and public texts. This book will be of great interest to researchers and students of environmental humanities, political ecology, environmental communication, and metaphor studies.

Author : Alex Lo
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137529008
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Carbon Trading in China written by Alex Lo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the political aspects of China's climate change policy, focusing on the newly established carbon markets and carbon trading schemes. Lo makes a case for understanding the policy change in terms of discourse and in relation to narratives of national power and development.