Climate Change Mitigation and the European Union - A Lacanian Exploration of Desire and Enjoyment

This book focuses on the European Union's (EU) climate change mitigation actions, developing a critical framework to the 2030 clean energy package and the 2050 long-term decarbonization strategy.

List of contents

1. Introduction 2. The EU's climate action: policy at a critical juncture 3. Climate mitigation action and the EU: a Lacanian matter? 4. Climate change mitigation action: of knowledge and disavowal 5. Climate change mitigation action: the case of energy efficiency and renewables 6. the Lacanian case of the circular economy: a return of the repressed? 7. The Lacanian case of the (non) circular economy 8. Conclusions Bibliography Appendix Index

About the author

Valeria Tolis is Lecturer in Climate Change Governance at the University of Leeds, UK. As a scholar of critical environmental politics, her research contributes to investigating the mechanisms that govern status quo and change in the production of environmental knowledge and in the formulation of environmental policies.

Summary

This book focuses on the European Union’s (EU) climate change mitigation actions, developing a critical framework to the 2030 clean energy package and the 2050 long-term decarbonization strategy.

Product details

• Authors: Valeria Tolis
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.01.2025
• EAN: 9781032456775
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3245677-5
• No. of pages: 154
• Series: Interventions
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, EU (European Union), International institutions, Environmental policy & protocols, Environmental policy and protocols