James Boyce

Economics for People and the Planet

Inequality in the Era of Climate Change

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

'Economics for People and the Planet' challenges the myth that economic growth must come at the expense of the natural environment and advances our understanding of how a more egalitarian distribution of wealth and power can help to safeguard the environment and address climate change.

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Produktdetails

• Anthem Frontiers of Global Political Economy and Development
• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 270g
• ISBN-13: 9781785271342
• ISBN-10: 1785271342
• Artikelnr.: 57927413

Autorenporträt

James Boyce is a multi-award-winning historian. His first book, Van Diemen's Land, was described by Richard Flanagan as 'the most significant colonial history since The Fatal Shore'. He is also the editor of Inga Clendinnen and the author of Losing Streak, Born Bad, Imperial Mud and 1835, which was The Age's 2012 Book of the Year.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Part I. Rethinking Economics and the Environment
Chapter 1. Limits to Growth - of What?
Chapter 2. The Twin Tragedies of Open Access
Chapter 3. Pursuing Profits - or Power?
Chapter 4. Rent in a Warming World
Chapter 5. Universal Assets for Universal Income
Chapter 6. Universal Basic Income: Six Questions
Chapter 7. Environmentalism's Original Sin
Chapter 8. Rethinking Extinction
Part II. Environmental Injustice
Chapter 9. Inequality and the Environment
Chapter 10. Clean Air for All
Chapter 11. Letter from Flint
Chapter 12. Let Them Drink Pollution?
Chapter 13. Letter from Delhi
Chapter 14. Mapping the Environmental Riskscape
Chapter 15. Measuring Pollution Inequality
Chapter 16. Cleaning the Air and Cooling the Planet
Part III. Climate Policy
Chapter 17. Smart Climate Policy
Chapter 18. Investment in Disadvantaged Communities
Chapter 19. Dividends for All
Chapter 20. Truth Spill
Chapter 21. Four Pillars of Climate Justice
Chapter 22. The Perverse Logic of Offsets
Chapter 23. Climate Policy as Wealth Creation
Chapter 24. The Carbon Dividend
Chapter 25. Keeping the Government Whole
Chapter 26. Air Quality Co-benefits in Climate Policy
Chapter 27. Climate Adaptation: Protecting Money or People?
Chapter 28. Forging a Sustainable Climate Policy
Notes
Publication History
Index.