Overview
Presents a historically and politically grounded set of strategies to move toward a post-carbon economy
Develops and evaluates a set of post-carbon macroeconomic and microeconomic policy instruments
Set apart from many other works in the field by its critical political economy approach to policy development
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Set apart from many other works in the field by its critical political economy approach to policy development, this book offers the reader three distinctive features. First, it places the analysis in historical context in order to demonstrate how the global political economy is constantly changing with respect to distributions of wealth, power and fundamental norms, and explores how states might harness and transform these contingent patterns in a post-growth direction. Second, the book is not only concerned with developing and advocating post-growth policies, but also with how these measures can be incorporated into the high-level domestic and international strategies pursued by states to ensure their political legitimacy and economic and geopolitical survival. Third, rather than proposing an idealised and politically naïve model of socioecological transformation, the proposed post-growth policy framework is highly cognisant of the geopolitical and international economic pressures facing states and demonstrates how these can be managed in the transition toward a post-growth economy.
This book represents an invaluable resource for policymakers, academics, activists and students wishing to study or contribute to the transition to a post-growth, decarbonised economy.
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Book Title: Post-growth Politics
Book Subtitle: A Critical Theoretical and Policy Framework for Decarbonisation
Authors: Peter Ferguson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78799-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Energy, Energy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-78797-8Published: 06 July 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07650-4Published: 20 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-78799-2Published: 19 June 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 197
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Economic Growth, Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Political Science, Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice, R & D/Technology Policy