John Mikler and I would like to announce the publication of our book "Climate
Innovation: Liberal Capitalism and Climate Change." We apologize for any
cross-postings.
Book Description
Whether or not an effective international agreement is implemented, states
would prefer to rely on innovative technologies to reduce GHG emissions than to
use regulations to constrain markets and limit social choice. Capitalism is
criticized as the main barrier to effective mitigation of climate change yet
simultaneously lauded for its ability to generate innovative products and
processes and from the earliest days of the international negotiations, states
have agreed that technological innovation is crucial to prevention of a
dangerous accumulation of atmospheric greenhouse gases.
This book shows that the strengths of the system that creates ever new consumer
products and industrial processes actually prevent the generation of
technological innovations that would most effectively mitigate climate change
("climate innovations"). Through comprehensive research of the US innovation
system and how companies respond to its supporting institutions, this book
demonstrates that liberal capitalism's expected advantages in climate
innovation are illusory: it is unlikely to generate the technologies needed to
mitigate climate change. Through interdisciplinary research this book also
demonstrates that current theories of technological innovation are incomplete
and suggests the institutional changes that all nations need to adopt to
generate sufficient climate innovations.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. An Introduction to Climate Innovation - Neil E. Harrison and John
Mikler
Chapter 2. Institutions that Influence Climate Innovation - Neil E. Harrison
and John Mikler
Part One: The National Context of Climate Innovation
Chapter 3. Climate Policy, Energy Technologies, and the American Developmental
State - Robert MacNeil
Chapter 4. Colorado's New Energy Economy: Ecological Modernization,
American-Style? - Stratis Giannakouros and Dimitris Stevis
Part Two: The Corporate Context of Climate Innovation
Chapter 5. The Role of Corporate Scientists and Institutional
Context: Corporate Responses to Climate Change in the Automobile Industry -
David Levy and Sandra Rothenberg
Chapter 6. Corporate Investment in Climate Innovation - Neil E. Harrison and
John Mikler
Chapter 7. US Labor Unions and Climate Change: Technological Innovations and
Institutional Influences - Dimitris Stevis
Part 3: Climate Innovation across Borders
Chapter 8. The Influence of US Neoliberalism on International Climate Change
Policy - Jeffrey McGee
Chapter 9. Varieties of Capitalism and US versus Chinese Corporations' Climate
Change Strategies - John Mikler and Hinrich Voss
Chapter 10. Institutional Complexity in European Union Climate Innovation:
European and National Experiences with Off-Shore Renewable Energy - Ian Bailey
Chapter 11. Conclusion: A Way Forward - Neil E. Harrison and John Mikler
Read excerpts from the book at
http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=661542 on the or on Amazon at
http://www.amazon.com/Climate-Innovation-Liberal-Capitalism-Environment/dp/1137319887/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1396842552&sr=1-1&keywords=neil+e+harrison.
I would also like to remind you that my book "Sustainable Capitalism and the
Pursuit of Well-Being" that shows how self-interest may be used to sustain
development was published by Routledge a couple of months ago. See more
information at
http://www.amazon.com/Sustainable-Capitalism-Well-Being-Routledge-Development/dp/0415662818/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1396843117&sr=1-4&keywords=neil+e+harrison
or http://sd-institute.org/html/sustainable_capitalism_and_the.html.
If you need more information, please contact me at the address below or by
email.
Cheers,
Neil
Neil E. Harrison, Ph.D.
Executive Director
The Sustainable Development Institute (www.sd-institute.org)
P.O. Box 423 Laramie, WY 82073
Author, Sustainable Capitalism and the Pursuit of Well-Being (Routledge 2014)
more information at www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415662819
Co-Editor, Climate Innovation: Liberal Capitalism and Climate Change (Palgrave
Macmillan 2014) more information at
http://us.macmillan.com/climateinnovation/NeilEHarrison.
Author, Constructing Sustainable Development (SUNY Press)
Co-Editor, Science and Politics in the International Environment (Rowman and
Littlefield)
Editor, Complexity in World Politics (SUNY Press)
Editor, National, Regional and Global Institutions, Infrastructures and
Governance, Vol. 1, National and Regional Institutions and Infrastructures.
London and Paris: EOLSS/UNESCO, 2008. (EOLSS/UNESCO)
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