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Levidow, Les (2023). Beyond Climate Fixes: From Public Controversy to System Change. Bristol: Bristol University Press.
URL: https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/beyond-climat...
Abstract
Political elites have been evading the causes of climate change through deceptive fixes. Their market-type instruments such as carbon trading aim to incentivise technological innovation which will supposedly decarbonize or replace dominant high-carbon systems. In practice this techno-market framework has perpetuated climate change and social injustices, thus provoking public controversy.
Using this opportunity, social movements have counterposed low-carbon, resource-light, socially just alternatives. These agendas can fulfil the popular slogan, ‘System Change Not Climate Change’. A transformative mobilisation has five general features: mobilised counter-publics, frame alignments, grassroots innovation, eco-localisation and solidaristic commoning to organise common resources. This book develops those critical concepts through case studies such as GM crops, biofuels, waste incineration and Green New Deal agendas.
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- Item ORO ID
- 92614
- Item Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 1-5292-2239-7, 978-1-5292-2239-5
- Keywords
- techno-market fixes; mobilised counter-publics; frame alignments; grassroots innovation; eco-localisation; solidaristic commoning
- Academic Unit or School
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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Social Sciences and Global Studies > Development
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Social Sciences and Global Studies
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) - Research Group
- Innovation, Knowledge & Development research centre (IKD)
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- © 2023 Bristol University Press
- Depositing User
- Les Levidow