Description
As climate change has increasingly become the main focus of environmentalist activism since the late 1990s, the global economic drivers of CO2 emissions are now a major concern for radical greens. In turn, the emphasis on connected crises in both natural and social systems has attracted more activists to the Climate Justice movement and created a common cause between activists from the Global South and North. In the absence of a pervasive narrative of transnational or socialist economic planning to prevent catastrophic climate change, these activists have been eager to engage with advanced knowledge and ideas on political and economic structures that diminish risks and allow for new climate agency.
This book breaks new ground by investigating what kind of economy the Climate Justice movement is calling for us to build and how the struggle for economic change has unfolded so far. Examining ecological debt, just transition, indigenous ecologies, social ecology, community economies and divestment among other topics, the authors provide a critical assessment and a common ground for future debate on economic innovation via social mobilization.
Taking a transdisciplinary approach that synthesizes political economy, history, theory and ethnography, this volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate justice, environmental politics and policy, environmental economics and sustainable development.
Table of Contents
Editor's preface, Stefan Gaarsmand Jacobsen
PART I The climate justice movement: formation and critical economic debates
1. Climate Justice as anti-corporate economic mobilization, Stefan Gaarsmand Jacobsen
2. Climate debt: the origins of a subversive misnomer, Rikard Warlenius
3. Climate Justice, Big Oil and Natural Capital, Patrick Bond
PART II Economic climate justice in practice
4. The indigenous climate justice of the Unist’ot’en resistance, Sam Bliss and Leah Temper
5. Divestment as Climate Justice: Weighing the Power of the Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement, Alex Lenferna
6. Carbon Trading, Climate Justice and Labor Resistance, Emanuele Leonardi
PART III New paradigms from below
7. Community Economies and Climate Justice, Gerda Roelvink
8. Growth, Power and Domination. Shortcomings of the (De-)Growth Debate and Perspectives for Climate Justice, Ulrich Brand
9. On Social Ecology and the Movement for Climate Justice, Brian Tokar
