Capitalism and climate change
Subtitle: theoretical discussion, historical development and policy responses
By: Max Koch
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780230272514
Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General; Climatic changes; Social aspects; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Environmental Economics; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy; Capitalism
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: List of Contents; title: Dedication; title: List of Tables; title: List of Abbreviations; title: Acknowledgement; title: Introduction; title: PART I: CAPITALIST DEVELOPMENT AND THE REGULATION OF SOCIETY AND NATURE; title: Nature and the Work Process; title: Capitalism, Nature and Climate Change: A Structural Analysis; title: The Regulation of Nature and Society in Different Capitalist Growth Strategies; title: PART II: FORDISM; title: The Origins of a New Accumulation Regime; title: The Geographic Extension of Fordism; title: Mode of Societalisation and Consumption Norm; title: A Fossil Energy Regime; title: PART III: FINANCE-DRIVEN CAPITALISM; title: The Rise of a Finance-Driven Accumulation Regime; title: The Recomposition of the International Division of Labour; title: A Worldwide Consumption Norm (Based on Debt) and the Financial Crisis; title: The Globalisation of the Fossil Energy Regime; title: PART IV: THE INTERNATIONAL REGULATION OF CLIMATE CHANGE OR THE COMMODIFICATION OF THE ATMOSPHERE; title: Multinational Governance in an Unequal World: The Kyoto Process and the Actors Involved; title: Theory and Practice of Carbon Emission Trading: The Case of the EU ETS; title: The Flaws of Free-Market Solutions for Climate Change Prevention and their Homology to a Finance-Driven Accumulation Regime; title: Concluding Remarks; title: Endnotes; title: Index.