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Green Keynesianism and the global financial crisis by ESS author Kyla Tienhaara
Tienhaara, K. (2018). Green Keynesianism and the global financial crisis. New York, NY: Routledge. It is widely accepted that limiting climate change to 2°C will require substantial and sustained investments in low-carbon technologies and infrastructure. However, the dominance of market fundamentalism in economic thinking for the past three decades has meant that governments have generally viewed large spending programs as politically undesirable. In this context, the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) represented a huge opportunity for proponents of public investment in environmental projects or “Green Keynesianism”. Read the full post (232 words, 1 image)
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New book by ESS authors John S. Dryzek and Jonathan Pickering
Dryzek, J.S., & Pickering, J. (Forthcoming 2019). The politics of the Anthropocene. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. Read the full post (251 words, 1 image)
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New book by ESS author Cristina M. Balboa
Cristina M. Balboa is Associate Professor at the Marxe School of Public and International Affairs, Baruch College, City University of New York. This is her most recent publication. Balboa, C. M. (2018). The paradox of scale: How NGOs build, maintain, and lose authority in environmental governance. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Read the full post (163 words, 1 image)
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Book: Environmental Geopolitics – by ESS member
O’Lear, S. (2018). Environmental geopolitics. London, UK: Rowman & Littlefield. Read the full post (192 words, 1 image)
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Textbook on Intl Political Economy by ESS member Miller published by Routledge
Miller, R.C. (2018). International political economy: Contrasting world views (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Routledge. In his new textbook, political economist Ray Miller analyzes the environment as one of the major global issues from three perspectives: free market, institutionalist, and Marxist. The institutionalist section includes ecological economist Herman Daly’s critique of neoclassical economics and top proposals from Paul Hawken’s plan to reverse global warming.
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OPEN ACCESS book by ESS members – Governing climate change: Polycentricity in action?
Jordan, A., Huitema, D., van Asselt, H., & Forster, J. (Eds.). (2018). Governing climate change: Polycentricity in action?. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Climate change governance is in a state of enormous flux. New and more dynamic forms of governing are appearing around the international climate regime centred on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). They appear to be emerging spontaneously from the bottom up, producing a more dispersed pattern of governing, which Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom famously described as ‘polycentric’. This book brings together contributions from some of the world’s foremost experts to provide the first systematic test of the ability of polycentric thinking to explain and…
