How to Decarbonize
Policy and Social Theory

This book provides students and professionals with frameworks for analyzing decarbonization policies.

Ross Astoria (Author)

9781009580151, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 13 March 2025

240 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm, 0.507 kg

How to Decarbonize explores opportunities for decarbonization introduced by recent federal legislation, which has prompted state-level climate planning. It is designed for students and professionals whose work brings them into contact with these opportunities, even if climate is not their primary profession, including city managers, bankers, and home builders who are interested in participating in planning for decarbonization. Chapters aim to support the successful uptake of these policies by providing high-level views of these new decarbonization policies using social theory. The book is divided into four sections, each introducing a social theory about the organization of societies and how they change, and then providing examples to demonstrate the intricacies of implementation.

1. Introduction: Can We Decarbonize?
Part I. Environmental Economics: 2. Carbon Pricing and Pigou's 'Violent Paradoxes'
3. Other 'Market Failures' and Decarbonization
Part II. The Theory of Strategic Action Fields: 4. The Theory of Strategic Action Fields
5. The Electrical Power Company as Strategic Action Field
6. New York and Reforming the Energy Vision Part III. Political Economy: 7. Decarbonizing Fossil Capitalism
8. Green Mehrwert and Decarbonization
Part IV. Climate and Environmental Justice: 9. Dispossession and Environmental Racism
10. Descriptive Model of EJ Policy
11. Conclusion: A Democratic Decarbonization?.

Subject Areas: Environment law [LNKJ]