Understanding Carbon Offset Technologies
In: New political economy, Band 15, Heft 2, S. 255-273
ISSN: 1469-9923
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In: New political economy, Band 15, Heft 2, S. 255-273
ISSN: 1469-9923
In: New political economy, Band 15, Heft 2, S. 255-274
ISSN: 1356-3467
Diana Liverman explores the theoretical positions for reducing greenhouse gas emissions including "earth-system management", cap and trade policies, individual and community behavioral change, political economy of carbon governance ("carbon capitalism"), and government regulation and incentives. She supports a blending of the last three to produce "political ecology". Liverman is critical of the Kyoto Accords but argues in favor of the Clean Development Mechanism [CDM] with some significant adjustments and much clearer analysis of how much carbon offsets truly reduce greenhouse gases. She limns out the limitations of CDM as well as implications for relations between the Global North and South. Glen MacDonald weighs the various arguments and models for climate change noting their strengths and weaknesses. He finds arguments that human activity has heightened CO2 levels in the atmosphere more compelling than those of skeptics. However, science still has not become capable of modeling carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere with certitude. He ends his talk with a discussion of the relationship between climate change and ongoing droughts in the subtropics. The accompanying audio files provide the complete recording of the two talks.
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In: International environmental agreements: politics, law and economics, Band 7, Heft 2, S. 137-169
ISSN: 1573-1553
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In: The journal of modern African studies: a quarterly survey of politics, economics & related topics in contemporary Africa, Band 51, Heft 2, S. 305-330
ISSN: 1469-7777
ABSTRACTThis article examines the problems of elite capture in community-driven development (CDD). Drawing on two case studies of non-governmental organisation (NGO) intervention in rural Mozambique, the authors consider two important variables – (1) the diverse and complex contributions of local elites to CDD in different locations and (2) the roles that non-elites play in monitoring and controlling leader activities – to argue that donors should be cautious about automatically assuming the prevalence of malevolent patrimonialism and its ill-effects in their projects. This is because the 'checks and balances' on elite behaviour that exist within locally defined and historically rooted forms of community-based governance are likely to be more effective than those introduced by the external intervener.
In: Environmental science & policy, Band 12, Heft 4, S. 373-377
ISSN: 1462-9011
In: The journal of modern African studies: a quarterly survey of politics, economics & related topics in contemporary Africa, Band 51, Heft 2, S. 305-330
ISSN: 0022-278X
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In: Environmental science & policy, Band 119, S. 18-33
ISSN: 1462-9011
In: Ecology and society: E&S ; a journal of integrative science for resilience and sustainability, Band 12, Heft 2
ISSN: 1708-3087
"Providing an up-to-date synthesis of all knowledge relevant to the climate change issue, this book ranges from the basic science documenting the need for policy action to the technologies, economic instruments and political strategies that can be employed in response to climate change. Ethical and cultural issues constraining the societal response to climate change are also discussed. This book provides a handbook for those who want to understand and contribute to meeting this challenge. It covers a very wide range of disciplines - core biophysical sciences involved with climate change (geosciences, atmospheric sciences, ocean sciences, ecology/biology) as well as economics, political science, health sciences, institutions and governance, sociology, ethics and philosophy, and engineering. As such it will be invaluable for a wide range of researchers and professionals wanting a cutting-edge synthesis of climate change issues, and for advanced student courses on climate change"--
In: Environmental management: an international journal for decision makers, scientists, and environmental auditors, Band 12, Heft 2, S. 133-143
ISSN: 1432-1009
In: Environmental management: an international journal for decision makers, scientists, and environmental auditors, Band 11, Heft 6, S. 713-719
ISSN: 1432-1009
In: International environmental agreements: politics, law and economics, Band 10, Heft 4, S. 277-298
ISSN: 1573-1553