Heather Lovell

The Making of Low Carbon Economies

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Produktbeschreibung

The Making of Low Carbon Economies looks at how more than two decades of sustained effort at climate change mitigation has resulted in a variety of new practices, rules and ways of doing things: a period of active construction of low carbon economies. From outer space observations of the carbon in tropical forests, to carbon financial r

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780367669034
• ISBN-10: 036766903X
• Artikelnr.: 60001773

Autorenporträt

Dr Heather Lovell is a Reader in the Human Dimensions of Environmental Change in the School of Geosciences at the University of Edinburgh, UK. She has a first degree and PhD in Human Geography (both from the University of Cambridge, UK) and has researched and taught social science aspects of climate change and energy for the past ten years. Her research has led to new understandings of sociotechnical change across two empirical sites: low-energy housing, and the commodification of carbon. She has held research positions at Oxford University, Durham University, the University of Technology (Sydney), and in UK Parliament. Dr Lovell's research has been widely cited (eg in Google Scholar she has 325 citations; h-index 11). She has been funded by the UK Research Councils (ESRC, EPSRC), the UK Tyndall Centre, and the Nuffield Foundation

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction. Part I: Heterogeneous Networks 2. Making Carbon Offsets.
3. Implementing Residential District Heating. Part II: Framing 4. Low
carbon housing in the UK. 5. The frames of carbon accounting Part III:
Commensuration 6. Measuring and standardising forest carbon for REDD+ 7.
The treatment of carbon in financial accounts. 8. Summary and conclusions