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Market Mechanisms, Ecological Sustainability And Equity, Sharon Beder
Market Mechanisms, Ecological Sustainability And Equity, Sharon Beder
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
Economists are commonly asked for advice on environmental policy. In Australia, for example, it was economist Ross Garnaut who was asked to prepare the major report on climate change policy. Not surprisingly, economists tend to advocate market mechanisms to achieve environmental protection. But can market mechanisms aim to maximise economic efficiency rather than environmental effectiveness or equity.
The Crisis Of Petro-Market Civilization: The Past As Prologue?, Timothy Dimuzio
The Crisis Of Petro-Market Civilization: The Past As Prologue?, Timothy Dimuzio
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
Summary Current patterns of high-energy intensive development are not sustainable on account of two major challenges that threaten the social reproduction of this civilization: peak oil and global warming. This chapter seeks to probe the dimensions of this looming crisis at the heart of 'petro-market civilization' by foregrounding the links between energy and social reproduction. In doing so, the chapter makes two interrelated arguments. First, I argue not only that the age of fossil fuels is an exceptional one but also that the discovery and use of fossil fuels have been crucial to the deepening and extension of an incipient …