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Climate Innovation

Liberal Capitalism and Climate Change

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  • © 2014

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Editors:
  1. Neil E. Harrison

    1. The Sustainable Development Institute, USA

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  2. John Mikler

    1. University of Sydney, Australia

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Part of the book series: Energy, Climate and the Environment (ECE)

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A comprehensive examination of the inability of liberal capitalism to generate the technological innovations necessary to prevent dangerous climate change. The case is made for the need for institutional evolution to drive the climate innovation, and the potential for climate innovation in an increasingly economically interconnected world.

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. An Introduction to Climate Innovation

    1. An Introduction to Climate Innovation

      • Neil E. Harrison, John Mikler
      Pages 1-18

  3. Institutions that Influence Climate Innovation

    1. Institutions that Influence Climate Innovation

      • Neil E. Harrison, John Mikler
      Pages 19-39

  4. The National Context of Climate Innovation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-43
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    2. Climate Policy, Energy Technologies, and the American Developmental State

      • Robert MacNeil
      Pages 45-71

    3. Colorado’s New Energy Economy: Ecological Modernization, American-Style?

      • Stratis Giannakouros, Dimitris Stevis
      Pages 72-96

  5. The Corporate Context of Climate Innovation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-99
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    2. The Role of Corporate Scientists and Institutional Context: Corporate Responses to Climate Change in the Automobile Industry

      • David Levy, Sandra Rothenberg
      Pages 101-126

    3. Corporate Investment in Climate Innovation

      • Neil E. Harrison, John Mikler
      Pages 127-163

    4. US Labour Unions and Climate Change: Technological Innovations and Institutional Influences

      • Dimitris Stevis
      Pages 164-187

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 275-314
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Editors and Affiliations

  • The Sustainable Development Institute, USA

    Neil E. Harrison

  • University of Sydney, Australia

    John Mikler

About the editors

Ian Bailey, Plymouth University, UK Stratis Giannakouros, Colorado State University, US Neil Harrison, The Sustainable Development Institute, USA David Levy, University of Massachusetts, USA Robert MacNeil, University of Sydney, Australia Jeffrey McGee, Newcastle Law School, Australia John Mikler, University of Sydney, Australia Sandra Rothenberg, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA Dimitris Stevis, Colorado State University, USA Hinrich Voss, University of Leeds, UK

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