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  • Electricity Capital and Energy Poverty

    Perspectives From Developmental States and Decentralised Markets

    by Lucy H. Baker, Umberto Cao, Ellen Fungisai Chipango, Hilman Syahri Fathoni, Paul G. Munro, Shanil Samarakoon ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book explores the rise of new forms of electricity capital, examining how evolving energy systems shape energy consumption and access in five different case studies from the global South. Structured in seven chapters, it begins with a clear theoretical and conceptual foundation and is followed by five compelling case studies, grounded in research insights from Zimbabwe, Mexico, ... Read more

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  • Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World

    A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global Poor, and Our Climate

    by Dani Rodrik ...
    New, practical approaches to confronting today’s most daunting global issuesFighting climate change, saving democracy, and eradicating poverty are urgent global challenges, yet the world’s leaders continue to pursue outdated policies that focus on one while worsening the tradeoffs between each of them. Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World shows how the nations of the world can achieve all three ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

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  • Fixing the Climate

    Strategies for an Uncertain World

    by Charles F. Sabel, David G. Victor ...
    Solving the global climate crisis through local partnerships and experimentationGlobal climate diplomacy—from the Kyoto Protocol to the Paris Agreement—is not working. Despite decades of sustained negotiations by world leaders, the climate crisis continues to worsen. The solution is within our grasp—but we will not achieve it through top-down global treaties or grand bargains among nations.Charles ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Our Extractive Age

    Expressions of Violence and Resistance

    Edited by Judith Shapiro, John-Andrew McNeish ...
    Series series Routledge Studies of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development
    Our Extractive Age: Expressions of Violence and Resistance emphasizes how the spectrum of violence associated with natural resource extraction permeates contemporary collective life.Chronicling the increasing rates of brutal suppression of local environmental and labor activists in rural and urban sites of extraction, this volume also foregrounds related violence in areas we might not expect, such ... Read more

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  • The History of Global Climate Governance

    by Joyeeta Gupta ...
    What has happened globally on the climate change issue? How have countries' positions differed over time, and why? How are problems and politics developing on an increasingly globalised planet, and can we find a solution? This book explores these questions and more, explaining the key underlying issues of the conflicts between international blocs. The negotiation history is systematically ... Read more

    $60.69 USD

  • Existential Politics

    Why Global Climate Institutions Are Failing and How to Fix Them

    by Jessica F. Green ...
    A new way to tackle the real politics of climate change through asset revaluationIt’s no secret that the Paris Agreement and voluntary efforts to address climate change are failing. Governments have spent three decades crafting international rules to manage the climate crisis yet have made little progress on decarbonization. In Existential Politics, Jessica Green explains why this is unsurprising: ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Towards an Emissions Trading System in Mexico: Rationale, Design and Connections with the Global Climate Agenda

    Outlook on the first ETS in Latin-America and Exploration of the Way Forward

    Edited by Simone Lucatello ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This Open Access book provides detailed information about the incoming Mexican Emissions Trading System, including an analysis on why the system was implemented, how the system was designed, how it operates, how it could work, and how it could be strengthened by 2023 when it will be formally launched. This document is aimed at those who want to understand how an ETS can operate in an emerging ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Energy Politics

    Edited by Kathleen J. Hancock, Juliann Emmons Allison ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The global, regional, and local energy landscape has changed dramatically in the twenty-first century. Many factors have affected what we know about energy: a consensus among scientists on climate change and related support for renewable energy, evolving energy and resource extraction technologies, growing resource demand in the developing world, new regional and global energy governance actors, ... Read more

    $172.79 USD

  • Labour Law and Ecology

    by Consuelo Chacartegui Jávega ...
    Series series The Global Law Collection
    Labour law is a necessary discipline for achieving sustainable environmental companies, both to make the regulation of labor rights more effective and to realize a vigorous contribution to the mitigation of climate change. Labour and the environment are not strictly separable. The integration of the ILO's Decent Work Agenda in the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is a remarkable event ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Power of Energy Justice & the Social Contract

    Edited by Raphael J. Heffron, Louis de Fontenelle ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book focuses on the energy sector and will make a significant contribution to its continued evolution. For many years, the energy sector has been missing a raison d’etre and now finally there are increased calls for that to be justice. Hence, this book will develop the concept of energy justice and how it needs to be formalised in a new ‘social contract’ with all stakeholders in ... Read more

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  • Climate Change in Regional Perspective

    European Union and Latin American Initiatives, Challenges, and Solutions

    Edited by Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann, Paula Sandrin, Yannis E. Doukas ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This Open Access book addresses climate change in Europe and Latin America from a comparative regionalism studies (CRS) perspective. Written by an international team of scholars and experts, chapters critically analyze proposals for mitigating climate change while contributing to the mutual understanding about the issues at stake across regions. The book is divided into three main sections. In the ... Read more

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  • Litigating the Climate Emergency

    How Human Rights, Courts, and Legal Mobilization Can Bolster Climate Action

    Edited by César Rodríguez-Garavito ...
    Series series Globalization and Human Rights
    As the climate emergency intensifies, rights-based climate cases – litigation that is based on human rights law – are becoming an increasingly important tool for securing more ambitious climate action. This book is the first to offer a systematic analysis of the universe of these cases known as human rights and climate change (HRCC) cases. By combining theory, empirical documentation, and ... Read more

    $36.09 USD