How to Decarbonize - Policy and Social Theory

Recent federal decarbonization policy has opened the range of decarbonization opportunities to new professions, such as city managers, local bankers, and home builders. This book facilitates the implementation of these policies by providing frameworks for analyzing them, as well as examples of policy implementation.

List of contents

1. Introduction: Can We Decarbonize?; Part I. Environmental Economics: 2. Carbon Pricing and Pigou's 'Violent Paradoxes'; 3. Other 'Market Failures' and Decarbonization; Part II. The Theory of Strategic Action Fields: 4. The Theory of Strategic Action Fields; 5. The Electrical Power Company as Strategic Action Field; 6. New York and Reforming the Energy Vision Part III. Political Economy: 7. Decarbonizing Fossil Capitalism; 8. Green Mehrwert and Decarbonization; Part IV. Climate and Environmental Justice: 9. Dispossession and Environmental Racism; 10. Descriptive Model of EJ Policy; 11. Conclusion: A Democratic Decarbonization?.

About the author

Ross Astoria is a Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Parkside, where he teaches courses in law, policy, and political philosophy. Professor Astoria is a national expert on US decarbonization policy. He's written Congressional legislation and has published on cap-and-trade, international trade law, and utility law.

Summary

Recent federal decarbonization policy has opened the range of decarbonization opportunities to new professions, such as city managers, local bankers, and home builders. This book facilitates the implementation of these policies by providing frameworks for analyzing them, as well as examples of policy implementation.

Product details

• Authors: Ross Astoria, Ross (University of Wisconsin At Parkside Astoria
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2025
• EAN: 9781009580137
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0958013-7
• No. of pages: 236
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; USA, Climate Change, Political Ideologies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, LAW / Environmental, LAW / Jurisprudence, LAW / Natural Resources, Environmentalist thought & ideology, environmental science, engineering & technology, United States of America, USA, Social impact of environmental issues, Jurisprudence & general issues, Environmental policy & protocols, Environment law, Jurisprudence and general issues, Environmental policy and protocols, Green politics / ecopolitics / environmentalism, Greenhouse gas emissions technologies, Energy & natural resources law, Energy and natural resources law