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- Alfredsson, Eva, 1963-, et al.
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Why achieving the Paris Agreement requires reduced overall consumption and production
- 2018
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Ingår i: Sustainability. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1548-7733. ; 14
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Technological solutions to the challenge of dangerous climate change are urgent and necessary but to be effective they need to be accompanied by reductions in the total level of consumption and production of goods and services. This is for three reasons. First, private consumption and its associated production are among the key drivers of greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions, especially among highly emitting industrialized economies. There is no evidence that decoupling of the economy from GHG emissions is possible at the scale and speed needed. Second, investments in more sustainable infrastructure, including renewable energy, needed in coming decades will require extensive amounts of energy, largely from fossil sources, which will use up a significant share of the two-degree carbon budget. Third, improving the standard of living of the world’s poor will consume a major portion of the available carbon allowance. The scholarly community has a responsibility to put the issue of consumption and the associated production on the research and policy agenda.
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- Hornborg, Alf, et al.
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The Commodification of Human Life : Labour, Energy and Money in a Deteriorating Biosphere
- 2021
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Ingår i: The Palgrave Handbook of Environmental Labour Studies. - Cham : Springer International Publishing. - 9783030719081 - 9783030719098 ; , s. 677-698
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The chapter integrates physicalist and constructivist approaches to phenomena conventionally categorised as ‘labour’ and ‘energy’ by unravelling how the two entangled concepts reflect nineteenth-century modernity’s increasingly instrumental approach to both society and nature. Energy technologies became understood as the efficient harnessing of nature’s powers in much the same way as economists focused on the efficient harnessing of human labour power. Although seemingly neutral in their references to objectively measurable, physical phenomena, concepts of ‘labour’ and ‘energy’ remain geared to maximum exploitation of humans and non-human nature, propelled by money and capitalism. The historical progress of energy technologies is consistently intertwined with political economy. No less than slavery, such technologies are strategies for displacing work and environmental loads onto less powerful segments of world society.
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- Räthzel, Nora, 1948-, et al.
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Introduction : expanding the boundaries of environmental labour studies
- 2021. - 1
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Ingår i: The Palgrave handbook of environmental labour studies. - Cham : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9783030719081 - 9783030719111 - 9783030719098 ; , s. 1-31
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Environmental labour studies has grown into a research area with multiple studies of working-class environmentalism, predominantly in the Global North. To encourage comparative research and global political alliances, this handbook includes environmental struggles of Indigenous populations, subsistence farmers, fisherfolk and commoners. The introduction presents ways of thinking about the relationships between society, labour and nature, and a broader notion of work to include unwaged and subsistence workers in the Global North and South. It concludes with an outline of the book's six sections: histories of workers' environmental engagements globally; unionists, Indigenous peoples and environmentalists seeking common ground; environmental struggles of farmers, commoners and communities; unions and state environmental policies; organic intellectuals; and rethinking and broadening the concepts of work, work/energy, labour-nature, design and the future of work.
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- Stevis, Dimitris, et al.
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The labour–nature relationship : varieties of labour environmentalism
- 2018
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Ingår i: Globalizations. - : Routledge. - 1474-7731 .- 1474-774X. ; 15:4, s. 439-453
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This special issue is a contribution to environmental labour studies, which aims to investigate the practices and theories that integrate labour and nature, by focusing on labour environmentalism. While nature is privately appropriated and exploited by Capital, workers’ organizations tend to construct nature as labour’s other, a place to enjoy or a place to be protected from destruction at best. In the following introductory article to this special issue, we present our view of what environmental labour studies are investigating and might investigate in the future and the place of labour environmentalism within this broader agenda. We also suggest an analytical framework to evaluate the depth, breadth, and level of the agency of the variations of labour environmentalism. We suggest that environmental labour studies can be a way of studying not only the intersections between social and environmental justice, climate change and working conditions but can also contribute to building a bridge between environmental theory and practice.
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The Palgrave handbook of environmental labour studies
- 2021
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this comprehensive Handbook, scholars from across the globe explore the relationships between workers and nature in the context of the environmental crises. They provide an invaluable overview of a fast-growing research field that bridges the social and natural sciences. Chapters provide detailed perspectives of environmental labour studies, environmental struggles of workers, indigenous peoples, farmers and commoners in the Global South and North. The relations within and between organisations that hinder or promote environmental strategies are analysed, including the relations between workers and environmental organisations, NGOs, feminist and community movements.
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