When green growth is not enough : climate change, ecological modernization, and sufficiency / Anders Hayden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hayden, Anders, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic development--Environmental aspects--Canada.

Economic development.

Economic development--Environmental aspects--Great Britain.

Economic development--Political aspects--Canada.

Economic development--Political aspects--Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (627 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montréal, Québec : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A systematic and thorough comparison between Canada's and Britain's actions on climate change.

Contents:

1 Introduction: A Battle of Three Paradigms

PART ONE: THE LAGGARD. 2 Canada: Stuck between Business-as-Usual and Ecological Modernization

3 "Excuse Me, Excuse Me": Struggles to Put Sufficiency on Canada's Agenda

4 Sufficiency's Small Steps Forward in Canada

5 Alberta's Oil/Tar Sands: Time to Step on the Brake?

PART TWO: THE LEADER. 6 Ecological Modernization in Britain: Coalition around a "Positive Agenda"

7 The Limits of Ecological Modernization in the UK

8 A New Politics of Limits? Macro-Sufficiency in the UK

9 Enough of That Already: Micro-Sufficiency in the UK

10 Sufficiency and the State: Setting the Stage for Deeper Change?

11 Comparison and Conclusions

Appendices. 1 Methods

2 Interviews and Events Attended in the UK

3 Interviews and Events Attended in Canada.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 18, 2014).

ISBN:

0-7735-9634-8

0-7735-9633-X

OCLC:

900244311