Book description
The New Carbon Economy
provides a critical understanding of the carbon economy. It offers key
insights into the constitution, governance and effects of the carbon
economy, across a variety of geographical settings.
- Examines different dimensions of the carbon economy from a range
of disciplinary angles in a diversity of settings
- Provides ways for researchers to subject claims of newness
and uniqueness to critical scrutiny
- Historicizes claims of the 'newness' of the carbon economy
- Covers a range of geographical settings including Europe, the US
and Central America
Peter Newell
is Professor of International Relations at the University of Sussex.
Prior to this he was Professor of Development Studies at the University
of East Anglia and held posts at the Oxford University Centre for the
Environment, the Centre for the Study of Globalization and
Regionalization at Warwick University, the Institute of Development
Studies (Sussex), FLACSO Argentina and Climate Network Europe in
Brussels. He is associate editor of the journal
Global Environmental Politics
. His climate publications include
Climate for Change
(2000),
The Business of Global Environmental Governance
(2005),
Climate Capitalism
(2010), and
Governing Climate Change
(2010).
Maxwell Boykoff is an Assistant Professor in the Cooperative
Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences Center for Science
and Technology Policy Research at the University of Colorado-Boulder.
In addition, he is a Senior Visiting Research Associate in the
Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford. His
publications include the books Who Speaks for Climate?: Making
Sense of Media Reporting on Climate Change (2011), and the
edited volume The Politics of Climate Change (2009).
Emily Boyd is a Reader in Environmental Change and Human
Communities in the Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences
at the University of Reading. Previously Emily was a lecturer in
Environment and Development in the School of Earth and Environment at
the University of Leeds, and deputy director of the Leeds University
Centre for Global Development. In addition, Emily is also a visiting
researcher at Oxford University and the Stockholm Resilience Centre.
Her publications include Climate Change a Beginners Guide
(2010) and Adapting Institutions, Governance and Complexity:
Insights for Social-ecological Resilience (2011, in press).
