The Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of the Environment

ISBN-13: 9780367410704 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 380 str.

Éloi Laurent; Klara Zwickl

Opis

Featuring a stellar international cast-list of leading and cutting-edge scholars, this book presents the state of the art of the discipline that considers ecological issues and crises from a political economy perspective.

Spis treści

(1) Introduction: Political Economy of the Environment in the Century of Ecological Crises   (2) Political Economy of the Environment: a look back and ahead   Part 1. Inequality and the Environment   A theoretical, empirical and historical framework   (3) The Sustainability-Justice Nexus   (4) A socio-metabolic perspective on (material) growth and inequality   (5) The history of environmental and energy economics through the lens of political economy   Global and Regional Political Economy of the Environment   (6) Global Environmental and Climate Justice Movements   (7) Global inequalities and climate change   (8) Natural disasters, poverty and inequality: new metrics for fairer policies   (9) Contracts and Dispossession: Agribusiness Venture Agreements in the Philippines   (10) Natural Resources, Climate Change and Inequality in Africa   (11) From Western Pennsylvania to the World: Environmental Injustice and the Ethane-to>Plastics Global Production Network   (12) Latin America Caught Between Inequality and Natural Capital Degradation: a view from macro and micro data   (13) Air quality co-benefits of climate mitigation in the European Union   (14) Designing Urban Sustainability: Environmental Justice in EU-Funded Projects   Part 2. From analysis to modelling and policy   From analysis to policy   (15) From the Welfare State to the Social-ecological State   (16) Promoting Justice in Global Climate Policies   (17) Carbon Pricing and Climate Justice   (18) Political economy of border carbon adjustment   (19) Political Economy of Forest Protection   Modelling and policy   (20) Informing the political economy of energy and climate transitions: modelling tools, pathways design frameworks and analytical challenges   (21) Diagnostics and Policy tools to measure and mitigate environmental health inequalities   (22) Building on the Right-to-Know: Data Interlinkage and Information Intermediation for Environmental and Corporate Regulation   (23) Conclusion: New frontiers in the political economy of the environment