Contours of Climate Justice

Ideas for shaping new climate and energy politics

 

Hg. Ulrich Brand, Nicola Bullard, Edgardo Lander, Tadzio Mueller

Critical Currents, Uppsala, 2009

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Content

 

Ulrich Brand, Nicola Bullard, Edgardo Lander and Tadzio Mueller
Radical climate change politic...s in Copenhagen and beyond: From criticism to action?

 

Part 1: How did we get here in the fi rst place?

 

Ewa Charkiewicz
A feminist critique of the climate change discourse. From biopolitics to necropolitics?

Achim Brunnengräber
Kyoto´s ‘fl exible mechanisms’ and the right to pollute the air

Eduardo Gudynas
Climate change and capitalism’s ecological fi x in Latin America

Walden Bello
The deadly triad: Climate change, free trade and capitalism

 

Part 2 : Wrong turns, dead-ends and cross-roads

 

Simone Lovera
REDD realities

Tadzio Mueller and Alexis Passadakis
Green capitalism and the climate: It’s economic growth, stupid!

Anne Laure Constantin
Fixing the world’s climate ‘foodprint’

Mike Hodson and Simon Marvin
The right to the city – energy and climate change

 

Part 3 : Mapping (and walking) the terrain of climate justice

 

Gopal Dayaneni
Climate justice in the US

Wolfgang Sachs
Climate change and human rights

Kolya Abramsky
Energy, crisis and world-wide production relations

Enrique Leff
Degrowth, or deconstruction of the economy: Towards a sustainable world

Alberto Acosta
The rights of nature, new forms of citizenship and the Good Life
– Echoes of the Constitución de Montecristi in Ecuador