Decarbonising Economies

Provides the first analysis of the prospects for deep decarbonisation in key economic sectors on the road to net zero.

Harriet Bulkeley (Author), Johannes Stripple (Author), Lars J. Nilsson (Author), Bregje van Veelen (Author), Agni Kalfagianni (Author), Fredric Bauer (Author), Mariësse van Sluisveld (Author)

9781108928748, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 24 February 2022

75 pages
22.8 x 15.2 x 0.6 cm, 0.16 kg

Based on an interdisciplinary investigation of future visions, scenarios, and case-studies of low carbon innovation taking place across economic domains, Decarbonising Economies analyses the ways in which questions of agency, power, geography and materiality shape the conditions of possibility for a low carbon future. It explores how and why the challenge of changing our economies are variously ascribed to a lack of finance, a lack of technology, a lack of policy and a lack of public engagement, and shows how the realities constraining change are more fundamentally tied to the inertia of our existing high carbon society and limited visions for what a future low carbon world might become. Through showcasing the first seeds of innovation seeking to enable transformative change, Decarbonising Economies will also chart a course for future research and policy action towards our climate goals. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Subject Areas: Technology: general issues [TB], Impact of science & technology on society [PDR], Science: general issues [PD], Politics & government [JP], Society & culture: general [JF]