Search Results - Climate Capitalism

Global capitalism and climate change the need for an alternative world system / by Baer, Hans A., 1944-

Table of Contents: “…The impact of climate change on the environment and human societies -- The capitalist world system and its contradictions -- The capitalist treadmill of production and consumption as a generator of greenhouse gas emissions -- The inadequacies of existing climate regimes for mitigating climate change -- Why green capitalism is insufficient to mitigate climate change -- A vision of an alternative world system : toward global democracy based on social justice and environmental sustainability -- Toward an ecological revolution : progressive transitional reforms -- Grass-roots responses to the climate change : internationally, nationally, and locally -- Conclusion.…”
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Climate Crisis, The : South African and Global Democratic Eco-Socialist Alternatives /

Table of Contents: “…The climate crisis and systemic alternatives -- The limits of capitalist solutions to the climate crisis -- The anthropocene and imerpeial ecocide -- The employment crisis, just transition and the universal basic income grant -- The rights of Mother Earth -- Buen Vivir: an alternative perspective from the peoples of the global south to the crisis of capitalist modernity -- Challenging the growth paradigm: Marx, Buddha and the pursuit of "happiness" -- Ubuntu and the struggle for an African eco-socialist alternative -- The climate crisis and the struggle for African food sovereignty -- The climate crisis and a "just transition" in South Africa -- Energy, labour and democracy in South Africa -- Capital, climate and the politics of nuclear procurement in South Africa -- Climate jobs at two minutes to midnight -- Deepening the just transition through food sovereignty and the solidarity economy -- Eco-capitalist crises in the "Blue Economy"…”
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Plan C community survival strategies for peak oil and climate change / by Murphy, Eugene (Eugene R.)

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Why the Center Can't Hold: A Diagnosis of Puritanized America / by O'Neill, Tom

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Capital and the common good : how innovative finance is tackling the world's most urgent problems / by Keohane, Georgia Levenson

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: innovative finance and the visible hand -- Climate change: REDD forests, green bonds, and the price of climate finance -- Health care: medicine for market failure -- Financial inclusion and access to capital -- Redefining risk, response, and resilience towards a new disaster finance -- US community and economic development -- Conclusion: financing the future: innovative finance and the ties that bind -- Epilogue: the road ahead.…”
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The Interconnected Arctic — UArctic Congress 2016

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1 Mysteries of the geological history of the Cenozoic Arctic Ocean sea ice cover -- Chapter 2 Response of Arctic alpine biota to climate change -evidence from Polar Urals GLORIA summits.- Chapter 3 The features of natural and artificial recovery in quarries of the forest-tundra zone of Western Siberia -- Chapter 4 The concept of hierarchical structure of large marine ecosystems in the zoning of Russian Arctic shelf seas -- Chapter 5 Changing climate and outbreaks of forest pest insects in a cold northern country, Finland.- Chapter 6 Wood-based energy as a strategy for climate change mitigation in the Arctic –Perspectives on assessment of climate impacts and resource efficiency with Life Cycle Assessment -- Chapter 7. …”
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Waste : Capitalism and the Dissolution of the Human in Twentieth-Century Theater / by Rizzo, Jessica

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Poverty Reduction Policies and Practices in Developing Asia

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Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics : Artists Reimagine the Arctic and Antarctic / by Bloom, Lisa E., 1958-

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Fire and Snow : Climate Fiction from the Inklings to Game of Thrones / by Di Paolo, Marc

Table of Contents: “…Lewis, and the Aesthetics of Christian Environmentalism -- The Time Lord, the Daleks, and the Wardrobe -- Noah's Ark Revisited: 2012 and Magic Lifeboats for the Wealthy -- Race and Disaster Capitalism in Parable of the Sower, The Strain, and Elysium -- Eden Revisited: Ursula K. …”
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Africa's power infrastructure investment, integration, efficiency /

Table of Contents: “…-- Private investors : over the hill -- Local capital markets : a possibility in the medium term -- Bank lending -- Equity -- Corporate bonds -- The most promising ways to increase funds -- What else can be done? …”
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International economics : understanding the forces of globalization for managers / by Torelli, Paul

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Free-Market Socialists : European Émigrés Who Made Capitalist Culture in America, 1918–1968 / by Malherek, Joseph

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Leading the positive organization : actions, tools, and processes /

Table of Contents: “…Positive organizational climate / Jill Bradley-Geist -- 6. Positive organizational conflict and communication / Kathleen A. …”
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Home Economics : Domestic Fraud in Victorian England / by Stern, Rebecca

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Advancing Environmental Education Practice / by Krasny, Marianne E.

Table of Contents: “…Theory of change -- Evaluation -- Environment, sustainability, and climate change -- Environmental behaviors -- Environmental action -- Knowledge and thinking -- Values, beliefs, and attitudes -- Nature of connectedness -- Sense of place -- Efficacy -- Identity -- Norms -- Social capital -- Positive youth development -- Health and wellbeing -- Conclusion : resilience : adaptation and transformation…”
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Greening the Financial Sector How to Mainstream Environmental Finance in Developing Countries /

Table of Contents: “…-- UNEP Perspectives -- Trading of Emission Certificates for Climate Protection: Using Markets and Private Capital for Development -- Microfinance and Climate Change: Threats and Opportunities -- Environmental Finance Through the Financial Sector - An Approach with Growing Potential - Experiences of KfW Entwicklungsbank.…”
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Extreme weather and financial markets opportunities in commodities and futures / by Oxley, Lawrence J., 1969-

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Institutional microeconomics of development

Table of Contents: “…Institutional economics of development : some general reflections / Pranab Bardhan -- Spontaneous markets, networks, and social capital : lessons from Africa / Marcel Fafchamps -- Financial markets and conflict in the developing world / Eliana La Ferrara -- Liberalization meets investment climate / Robin Burgess -- Local democracy and ethnic diversity : a review, a new framework, and some evidence from Indonesian villages / Oriana Bandiera and Gilat Levy -- Local accountability improves health services / Martina Björkman, Ritva Reinikka, and Jakob Svensson -- Extended family networks in rural Mexico : a descriptive analysis / Manuela Angelucci ... …”
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Global crises and the crisis of global leadership

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