After the green gold rush

The Construction of Climate Change as a Market Transition

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2159649
AutoresVladimir Jankovic (0000-0002-7341-8091), Andrew Bowman (0000-0001-5132-6121)
Año2014
Volumen43
Número2
Páginas233-259
Fecha de publicación2014-04-03
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEconomy and Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0308-5147 • E-ISSN: 1469-5766
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03085147.2013.791511
OpenAlexW2104224803
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas14
Referencias citadas50

This paper examines the emergence of a representation of climate change amongst business and political elites as an axiomatic frame of long-term economic strategy. In this representation, the rationale for action on climate change is liberated from the premise of an exogenous physical threat, and replaced by incentives endogenous to the market in the form of opportunities in the so-called carbon economy. The relationship between climate science and action upon climate change has in this process become markedly different from common assumptions whereby science is either ignored or obfuscated, or followed faithfully as the evidence base for policy. Strikingly, the abandoning of climate ontology as irrelevant to corporate decision-making has enabled a large-scale investment of capital into the policies nominally designed to tackle climate change. © 2013 Copyright Taylor & Francis

Action (physics · Axiom · Capital (architecture · Causation · Climate change · Climate change mitigation · Economic system · Economics · Epistemology · Geography · Incentive · Investment (military · Market economy · Natural resource economics · Political economy of climate change · Political science · Politics · Premise · Public economics · Representation (politics · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Climate Change Policy and Economics · Environmental Sustainability in Business · Law