Sustainability and Energy Politics: Ecological Modernisation and Corporate Social Responsibility

by Giorel Curran

Overview

The author explores the fraught politics of energy transitions in an age of climate change. She does so through an ecological modernisation and corporate social responsibility lens which she contends shapes and underpins sustainability today. Case studies cover climate policy, unconventional gas and renewable energy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137352323
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	08/19/2015
Series:	Energy, Climate and the Environment
Edition description:	1st ed. 2015
Pages:	235
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

Giorel Curran is Senior Lecturer in the School of Government and International Relations and the Centre for Governance and Public Policy at Griffith University, Australia. Her research focuses on environmental politics, climate policy, global political movements, green political theory and global political economy. She has published widely in all these areas. Some of her recent books include 21st Century Dissent: Anarchism, Anti-Globalisation and Environmentalism (2006); and the co-edited collections Business and the Politics of Globalisation: After the GFC (2010), and Government and Business in Volatile Times (2013).

Table of Contents

Introduction
PART I: THEORISING CONTEMPORARY SUSTAINABILITY
1. Sustainability Today: From Fringe to Mainstream
2. Ecological Modernisation: Promises and Prospects
3. Corporate Social Responsibility: Business Stepping Up?
PART II: PRACTISING CONTEMPORARY SUSTAINABILITY
4. The Politics of Climate Change: Fight and Flight
5. Unconventional Gas and Social Licence: Locking the Gate?
6. Renewable Energy Transitions: Powering the Future
Conclusion