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Beyond climate fixes : from public controversy to system change /
Les Levidow argues that the current strategies for climate change mitigation perpetuate environmental harm, and offers alternative policies for real system change.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol :
Bristol University Press,
2023.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover
- Beyond Climate Fixes: From Public Controversy to System Change
- Copyright information
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Glossary
- About the Author
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction to Climate Fixes versus System Change: What's the Problem?
- Introduction
- Climate fixes have facilitated high-carbon continuity
- Market-type instruments have blurred responsibility
- EU climate policy has depended on techno-market fixes
- Social agency remains elusive for climate solutions
- Big picture: book overview
- Chapter 2 on techno-market fixes: key concepts
- Chapter 3 on the EU agribiotech fix
- Chapter 4 on the EU biofuels fix
- Chapter 5 on the UK's waste-conversion fix
- Chapter 6 on Green New Deal agendas
- Chapter 7: Conclusion
- 2 Techno-market Fixes Provoke Controversies and Alternatives: The Big Picture
- Rival social orders around technofixes
- Techno-market fix as a policy framework: its origins and roles
- Ecological modernization
- Neoliberal environmentalism
- Societal futures depoliticized
- Rival societal futures
- Sociotechnical imaginaries
- Social agency as a transformative mobilization
- Participatory Action Research for social agency
- 3 EU Agribiotech Fix: Stimulating Blockages and Agroecological Alternatives
- Introduction
- EU's agribiotech policy as a techno-market fix
- Public controversy over unsustainable agri-industrial systems
- Regulatory criteria disputed
- Regulatory constraints express societal conflicts
- From commercial blockages to GMO-free zones
- Agroecology as a transformative agenda
- Inspiration from the global South
- Knowledge-based productivity
- EU policy conflicts: productivist versus agroecological priorities
- Relocalization through short supply chains
- Climate-resilient agriculture: rival agendas
- Conclusion
- 4 EU Biofuels Fix: Prioritizing an Investment Climate
- Introduction
- Promoting EU biofuel expansion as a techno-market fix
- Opposing 'agrofuels' as a multiple threat
- Stimulating 'sustainable' biofuels and investment
- Disputing harms from indirect land use change
- Indirect Land Use Change (ILUC) effects: carbon savings or a carbon time-bomb?
- 'Investment climate' for bioeconomy innovation
- Bioeconomy imperative supersedes indirect land use change (ILUC) harms
- Conclusion
- 5 UK Waste Incineration Fix: Perpetuating and Displacing Waste Burdens
- Introduction
- UK disputes over waste incineration versus alternatives
- UK ecomodernist framework for waste-as-resource
- Linear versus circular economy
- Gloucestershire conflict: rival designs for resource recovery
- Technological advance beyond incineration?
- Advanced Thermal Treatments moving waste up the hierarchy?
- Recovering resources beyond disposal?
- Disputing incineration: decarbonization and resource objectives
- More incineration plants
- or a circular economy?