Pricing Carbon in Australia - Contestation, the State and Market Failure

List of contents

1. Introduction


2. Contestation and the political economy of carbon pricing


3. Historical dimensions of the market turn


4. Carbon pricing in practice


5. Technocracy and the Copenhagen moment


6. Conservative populism and carbon contradictions


7. Beyond Paris, towards energy justice


8. Conclusion

About the author

Rebecca Pearse is a lecturer in the Department of Political Economy, University of Sydney, Australia.

Summary

This book examines the ETS in Australia between 2007 and 2015, exploring the underlying contradictions of marketised climate policy. Offering a critique of the political economy of marketised climate policy, the book explores why the hopes for global carbon trading have been dashed.

Product details

• Authors: Rebecca Pearse, Pearse Rebecca
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9780367376826
• ISBN: 978-0-367-37682-6
• No. of pages: 156
• Series: Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Structural and environmental engineering; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development, Sustainability, Climate Change, NATURE / Ecology, Australia, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, environmental science, engineering & technology, Development economics and emerging economies, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Environmental policy and protocols