When Green Growth Is Not Enough
Climate Change, Ecological Modernization, and Sufficiency
1. Auflage
Erschienen am 1. November 2014
627 Seiten
978-0-7735-9633-7 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
A systematic and thorough comparison between Canada's and Britain's actions on climate change.
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Hayden Anders:
Anders Hayden is assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Dalhousie University.Anders Hayden is assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Dalhousie University.
Anders Hayden is assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Dalhousie University.Anders Hayden is assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Dalhousie University.
Inhalt
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acronyms
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction: A Battle of Three Paradigms
- The UK and Canada: "Different Ends of the Performance League"
- Business-As-Usual and Its Promethean Foundations
- Ecological Modernization and the Greening of Capitalist Growth
- Sufficiency: "What about the Appetite Itself?"
- Critical Political Economy Perspectives on Growth, Capitalism, and Ecology
- Can em Reform Deliver a "Carbon Revolution"?
- Climate Action and Core Political Imperatives
- Chapter Overview
- PART ONE: THE LAGGARD
- 2 Canada: Stuck between Business-as-Usual and Ecological Modernization
- From Early Leader to Back of the Pack
- Federal Climate Policy: Win-Win Rhetoric Meets Policy Agony
- Bau Voices: Growth vs. Environment, And Growth (Obviously) Must Prevail
- Ecological Modernization's Continued Struggle to Take Off
- Obstacles to Ecological Modernization in Canada
- Hard Choices: The Need to Go Beyond "Win-Win"
- Conclusions
- 3 "Excuse Me, Excuse Me": Struggles to Put Sufficiency on Canada's Agenda
- Prophets of a New Economy: Individual Critics of Growth
- From Adbusting to Making Affluence History: Organizations Questioning Growth
- Obstacles to Macro-Sufficiency: From Business Resistance to Environmentalist Reluctance
- Specifically Canadian Obstacles to Sufficiency
- Conclusions
- 4 Sufficiency's Small Steps Forward in Canada
- Double Messages: Growth Is Like Cancer, Climate Action Boosts Growth
- Sufficiency: Inroads at the Micro Level
- Sufficiency with a Corporate Twist
- Campaigns for Voluntary Action and Lifestyle Change
- New Well-Being Indicators
- Conclusions
- 5 Alberta's Oil/Tar Sands: Time to Step on the Brake?
- Welcome to Fort McMoney
- Dreams, Provincial and Promethean
- The Dark Side of the Boom: Ecological and Social Impacts
- "Are There Any Limits to Growth?": Demands for an Oil Sands Moratorium
- Ecologically Modernizing the Tar Sands?
- Obstacles to a Managed Slowdown
- The Battle over Oil Sands Growth Goes International
- Conclusions
- PART TWO: THE LEADER
- 6 Ecological Modernization in Britain: Coalition around a "Positive Agenda"
- From "Dirty Man" of Europe to the "New Green Industrial Revolution"
- New Labour: Starting the Low-Carbon Transition via the Carbon Market
- Local Action and Innovation
- Cradle-to-Grave Carbon Consciousness
- Business: Being Green to Grow
- The Stern Review and "The Day That Changed the Climate"
- The Climate Change Act: Binding Targets and an "Eco-Constitution"
- Pushing for a Low-Carbon, Growing Global Economy
- The Promise of the "Greenest Government Ever"
- Opportunity and Vulnerability: Factors Driving em in the UK
- Conclusions
- 7 The Limits of Ecological Modernization in the UK
- Business-As-Usual and the Voices of "Scepticism"
- One Government Preventing Climate Change, Another Causing It
- Climate Protection Pays (Up to a Point): The Carbon Reduction Commitment
- Biofuels: The Easy Way to Go Green
- Efficiency Is Not Enough
- The Limits to the Stern Review
- The UK's Emissions Record: A Closer Look
- Conclusions
- 8 A New Politics of Limits? Macro-Sufficiency in the UK
- Taking on Economic Growth Head-On
- "It's Like the Third Rail": Obstacles to the Growth Critique in Britain
- Why Sufficiency Doesn't Go Away
- The "Economic Growth Dance"
- Nuanced, Partial Critiques of Growth
- Conclusions
- 9 Enough of That Already: Micro-Sufficiency in the UK
- Relatively Easy Targets: Banishing Bags and Bottled Water
- Food: Cutting Waste, Distances, and Meat and Dairy
- Chelsea Tractors: Waging War on the Suv
- Air Travel: Halting Heathrow Expansion
- Conclusions
- 10 Sufficiency and the State in the UK: Setting the Stage for Deeper Change?
- Living Within Limits and One-Planet Living
- Behaviour and Lifestyle Change: An Opportunity, with Pitfalls, for Sufficiency
- Alternative Well-Being and Economic Indicators
- Floating the Idea of Carbon "Rationing"
- Prosperity without Growth?
- Conclusions
- 11 Comparison and Conclusions
- Shared Commitment to Growth, Diverging Strategies
- The Appeal, Importance, and Limits of Ecological Modernization
- Sufficiency: Inroads and Prospects
- Importance of a Positive, Alternative Vision
- Appendices
- 1 Methods
- 2 Interviews and Events Attended in the UK
- 3 Interviews and Events Attended in Canada
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
