The Politics of Carbon Markets

Download or read book The Politics of Carbon Markets written by Benjamin Stephan and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's beleaguered yet expanding carbon market represents a type of relationship between economy and ecology scarcely imaginable forty years ago. This collection brings together a comprehensive array of perspectives to critically scrutinise the development and on-going maintenance of this global carbon market. The book's contributors recognise that the market itself, as well as the notion of the environment that it instantiates, is highly political and contested; thus the chapters investigate the market system and its insertion into and influence on climate and environmental governance within the global political economy.