Recent federal decarbonization policy has opened the range of decarbonization opportunities to new professions, such as city managers, local bankers, and home builders. This book facilitates the implementation of these policies by providing frameworks for analyzing them, as well as examples of policy implementation.
How to Decarbonize explores opportunities for decarbonization introduced by recent federal legislation, which has prompted state-level climate planning. It is designed for students and professionals whose work brings them into contact with these opportunities, even if climate is not their primary profession, including city managers, bankers, and home builders who are interested in participating in planning for decarbonization. Chapters aim to support the successful uptake of these policies by providing high-level views of these new decarbonization policies using social theory. The book is divided into four sections, each introducing a social theory about the organization of societies and how they change, and then providing examples to demonstrate the intricacies of implementation.
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This book provides students and professionals with frameworks for analyzing decarbonization policies.
1. Introduction: Can We Decarbonize?; Part I. Environmental Economics:
2. Carbon Pricing and Pigou's 'Violent Paradoxes';
3. Other 'Market Failures' and Decarbonization; Part II. The Theory of Strategic Action Fields:
4. The Theory of Strategic Action Fields;
5. The Electrical Power Company as Strategic Action Field;
6. New York and Reforming the Energy Vision Part III. Political Economy:
7. Decarbonizing Fossil Capitalism;
8. Green Mehrwert and Decarbonization; Part IV. Climate and Environmental Justice:
9. Dispossession and Environmental Racism;
10. Descriptive Model of EJ Policy;
11. Conclusion: A Democratic Decarbonization?.
Ross Astoria is a Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Parkside, where he teaches courses in law, policy, and political philosophy. Professor Astoria is a national expert on US decarbonization policy. He's written Congressional legislation and has published on cap-and-trade, international trade law, and utility law.
