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Advances in ecopolitics / edited by Jonn [i.e. John] Barry
(Advances in ecopolitics)

Publisher	Bingley, U.K : Emerald
Year	2009
Authors	Barry, John 1966-

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Links to the text	Library Off-campus access			OB00121543		Emerald eBooks (電子ブック)	9781780526713

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Material Type	E-Book
Media type	機械可読データファイル
Size	1 online resource (ii, 100 p.)
Notes	Editor's introduction / Rupert Read -- Towards a green philosophy of money / Rupert Read -- The Green New Deal : restoring balance and stability to the global financial and ecosystem / Ann Pettifor -- Why the 'Green New Deal' requires a green new protectionism / Colin Hines -- A new financial architecture based on a global carbon standard / Molly Scott Cato -- The politics of money and credit as a route to ecological sustainability and economic democracy / Mary Mellor -- Book reviews / Richard Lawson This is a challenging time to be an academic with an interest in either the economy or the environment: we are being deluged with an over-supply of bad news. From the evidence of accelerating climate change to the increasingly desperate policies of fiscal stimulus and quantitative easing it is difficult enough to keep up with the jargon, never mind the policy. Academics tend to spend their careers looking backwards, analysing what is already safely established and categorized. The present crisis has deprived us of that luxury. Now more than ever our insights and our information are needed to save humanity from two interlinked crises that threaten our future. We need urgent solutions and we need co-operation: for this reason this issue includes contributions from academics and from campaigners. Many have questioned whether we have time to worry about the environment now that the financial crisis has become so pressing. What we seek to make clear in this special issue is that the two crises are in fact two aspects of the same crisis. It is a crisis of overconsumption, of debt-fuelled bingeing. It is a crisis of monetary-and-ecological debt; and of what happens when that debt starts to be called in Print version record HTTP:URL=https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/doi/10.1108/S2041-806X(2009)3
Subjects	LCSH:Environmental policy LCSH:Political ecology FREE:Nature -- General All Subject Search FREE:The environment
Classification	LCC:GE195 UDC:502 DC23:333.7
ID	8000072589
ISBN	9781780526713