This book discusses climate change as a social issue, examining the incompatibility of capitalist development and Earth’s physical 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.
Table des matières
Dedication List of Tables List of Abbreviations Acknowledgement Introduction PART I: CAPITALIST DEVELOPMENT AND THE REGULATION OF SOCIETY AND NATURE Nature and the Work Process Capitalism, Nature and Climate Change: A Structural Analysis The Regulation of Nature and Society in Different Capitalist Growth Strategies PART II: FORDISM The Origins of a New Accumulation Regime The Geographic Extension of Fordism Mode of Societalisation and Consumption Norm A Fossil Energy Regime PART III: FINANCE-DRIVEN CAPITALISM The Rise of a Finance-Driven Accumulation Regime The Recomposition of the International Division of Labour A Worldwide Consumption Norm (Based on Debt) and the Financial Crisis The Globalisation of the Fossil Energy Regime PART IV: THE INTERNATIONAL REGULATION OF CLIMATE CHANGE OR THE COMMODIFICATION OF THE ATMOSPHERE Multinational Governance in an Unequal World: The Kyoto Process and the Actors Involved Theory and Practice of Carbon Emission Trading: The Case of the EU ETS The Flaws of Free-Market Solutions for Climate Change Prevention and their Homology to a Finance-Driven Accumulation Regime Concluding Remarks Endnotes Index
A propos de l’auteur
MAX KOCH Professor at the Department of Social Work and Social Welfare, Lund University, Sweden. He has previously published
Roads to Post-Fordism: Labour Markets and Social Structures in Europe and
Diversity, Standardization and Social Transformation: Gender, Ethnicity and Inequality in Europe (co-edited with L. Mc Millan and B. Peper).
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