Decarbonising and Decolonising Economics - Why Climate Justice Demands Decolonising Decarbonisation

This book examines the relationship between climate change and colonisation within the global economy, showing how imperialism has enabled the exploitation of resources for the benefit of the Global North. Bringing together diverse perspectives from across economics, it highlights how the global decarbonisation agenda has been constrained by Western economic systems and knowledge production. By exploring how economics can become more inclusive and aligned with ecological demands, it presents ways in which the global economy can be transformed to address socio-economics inequalities and climate change. The historical causes of social injustice are evaluated to provide context for the need for climate justice and non-Western theories of sustainable development.

This book demonstrates how the cycle of colonisation and resource exploitation can be broken. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in environmental economics, the political economy, and development economics.

Ariane Agunsoye is Senior Lecturer in Economics at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.

Alexandra Arntsen is Senior Lecturer in Economics at Nottingham Trent University, UK.

List of contents

1. Introduction to the challenges and possibilities in decarbonizing and decolonizing economics.- 2. Decolonizing development and ecology.- 3. Unveiling the hidden resource nexus: Navigating mineral intensity in the green energy transition.- 4. The challenges of measuring the value of "green" infrastructure for an economy from a gendered lens.- 5. What does decolonisation offer for world-remaking?.- 6. Decarbonizing and decolonizing the economics curriculum: An introduction.- 7. Citations, funding and influence in energy policy research on developing countries.- 8. Conclusion: What is the way forward?.

About the author

Ariane Agunsoye is Senior Lecturer in Economics at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.

Alexandra Arntsen is Senior Lecturer in Economics at Nottingham Trent University, UK.

Product details

• Assisted by: Ariane Agunsoye (Editor), Arntsen (Editor), Alexandra Arntsen (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 17.01.2026
• EAN: 9783032119711
• ISBN: 978-3-032-11971-1
• Illustrations: Approx. 150 p.
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Politics and business; Entwicklungsökonomie und Schwellenländer, Energiewirtschaft und Versorgungsunternehmen, Sustainable Development, Sustainable Development Goals, Development Economics, Political Economy and Economic Systems, Resource and Environmental Economics, Green infrastructure, Green energy transition, Energy policy for developing countries, Decolonizing economic development, Imperialist economic systems, Decolonizing the economics curriculum