The Rise and Fall of Carbon Emissions Trading

2015. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-49037-7
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 206 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3845 g

Reihe: Energy, Climate and the Environment

This book presents the results of the first full-scale emissions trading schemes in Australia and internationally, arguing these schemes will not be sufficient to 'civilize markets' and prevent dangerous climate change. Instead, it articulates the ways climate policy needs to confront the collective nature of our predicament.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kuch, Declan

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Umweltökonomie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltmanagement, Umweltökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Rise Of Emissions Trading As A Market Mechanism And The Promise Of ' 'Civilized Markets ' '
2. Marketizing Civil Regulation: Acid Rain Regulation As The Experimental Bridge To Carbon Markets
3. Governing Carbon Emissions: NSW GGAS
4. The Technopolitics Of National Carbon Accounts
5. ' 'Economists In The Wild ' ': Clean Development And The Global Politics Of Carbon Offsets
6. The Paradox Of Measurable Counterfactuals And The Fall Of Emissions Trading
7. Beyond 8%: Resituating Emissions Trading

Über Autor(innen)

Declan Kuch is Research Fellow in the School of Law at the University of South Wales, Australia. He has published on public engagement with science and technology, and worked as a consultant on the 'Securing Australia's Future' project for the Australian Council of Learned Academies. His current research focuses on socio-legal dimensions of ownership and control over energy projects.