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Introduction to Sustainability
Environmental, Social and Personal Perspectives
AvMartin Mulligan
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
649 kr
An Introduction to Sustainability provides students with a comprehensive overview of the key concepts and ideas which are encompassed within the growing field of sustainability.The fully updated second edition, including new figures and images, teases out the diverse but intersecting domains of sustainability and emphasises strategies for action. Aimed at those studying the subject for the first time, it is unique in giving students from different disciplinary backgrounds a coherent framework and set of core principles for applying broad sustainability principles within their own personal and professional lives. These include: working to improve equality within and across generations; moving from consumerism to quality of life goals; and respecting diversity in both nature and culture.Areas of emerging importance such as the economics of prosperity and wellbeing stand alongside core topics including:· Energy and society· Consumption and consumerism· Risk and resilience· Waste, water and land.Key challenges and applications are explored through international case studies, and each chapter includes a thematic essay drawing on diverse literature to provide an integrated introduction to fundamental issues.Housed on the Routledge Sustainability Hub, the book’s companion website contains a range of features to engage students with the interdisciplinary nature of sustainability. Together these resources provide a wealth of material for learning, teaching and researching the topic of sustainability.This textbook is an essential companion to any sustainability course.
Det här förändrar allt : kapitalismen kontra klimatet
AvNaomi Klein
Pocket, Svenska, 2016
4,3 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(15)
54 kr
DET FINNS ingen nutida tänkare som så skickligt berättat om vår tid och vart vi är på väg som Naomi Klein. Hennes No Logo och Chockdoktrinen är moderna samhällsanalysklassiker och nu har hon gett sig i kast med den verkliga ödesfrågan klimatet. Världen går mot sin undergång och väldigt lite görs för att försöka undvika katastrofen. I Det här förändrar allt försöker Naomi Klein ta reda på varför. Och hon gör det genom att beskriva världen precis som den är just nu: vilka är det som bestämmer, vad bestämmer de och vad är de ute efter. Den mest avgörande insikten för både Klein och oss läsare är mötet med Stilla Havs-republiken Nauru. Det lilla örikets landmassa bestod i huvudsak av fosfor som de sålde dyrt till konstgödselindustrin. Det var deras guld, deras lycka fram till slutet av 90-talet då knappt något fanns kvar av öriket, medan havsvattennivån steg oroväckande snabbt. När öriket var som rikast, stod befolkningen på kanten till det stora gruvhålet. Naurus öde kan liknas vid en skeppsbruten som säljer sin flytväst till högstbjudande. Och det gäller inte bara Nauru. Vi gör samma sak över hela klotet. De rika blir rikare, hjulen snurrar snabbare men jorden töms, blir ett skal av halvdöd industriskog, stora öknar och döda jordar. Detta fångas i Det här förändrar allt med obönhörlig precision. Men det vore inte Naomi Klein om hon inte också lyckades inge läsaren hopp. Det är en bok som säger att den här skräckberättelsen kan få ett lyckligt slut det bestämmer vi. »Oerhört skickligt genomförd bok om klimatkrisen och kapitalismen.« DN »Den mest betydelsefulla och utmanande miljöboken sedan Tyst vår.« NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
Slow Down or Die
The Economics of Degrowth
AvTimothée Parrique
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
175 kr
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'A clear vision for a profoundly different economy' Irish TimesOne of the most deeply ingrained beliefs of our age is that perpetual economic growth is the solution to most, if not all, of society's problems. In Slow Down or Die, French economist Timothée Parrique brilliantly challenges this myth, demonstrating how producing more won't solve climate change, poverty, or inequality. In fact, our obsession with growth is accelerating social and ecological collapse.Parrique proposes a different vision - a "post-growth" economy, where we look beyond the vagaries of GDP and measure our economies through how well we provide for each other. Instead of infinitely accumulating wealth, our goal must be a just, equitable, and sustainable society. Accessible and inspiring, Slow Down or Die is a radical call to embrace a future of shared prosperity, where slowing down is the key to a better, sustainable future.
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Välfärdsstat i förändring : socialpolitiska reformer i Västeuropa på 2000-talet
AvMikael Nygård
Häftad, Svenska, 2020
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
503 kr
Välfärdsstat i förändring beskriver Västeuropa under 2000-talet. Författaren strävar efter att fånga huvudmönstren i välfärdsstaternas förändringar och diskuterar också vilka drivkrafterna bakom har varit samt vilka konsekvenser de har fått på den sociala välfärden i Europa. Boken innehåller även en diskussion om de metodologiska och teoretiska utgångspunkter som ligger till grund för välfärdsstatliga analyser och jämförelser. Två budskap är centrala. Det första är att välfärdsstaten och dess förändringar är mångfacetterade fenomen som kan förstås och mätas på olika sätt. Det andra att de västeuropeiska välfärdsstaterna har genomgått, och fortsätter att genomgå, förändringar. Dessa har i många fall inneburit att vi har fått försämrade sociala skyddsnät, men förändringarna har samtidigt inneburit expansion inom andra områden av välfärdsstaten – i första hand de nya sociala riskområden som socialpolitiken riktar sig till. Vi bör därmed kanske förstå välfärdsstatens förändring som en kontinuerlig anpassningsprocess där huvudmålet är att ”rekalibrera” socialpolitiken i förhållande till förändrade behov och förutsättningar. Boken vänder sig i första hand till studerande vid socialvetenskapliga och samhällsvetenskapliga universitets- och högskoleutbildningar i de nordiska länderna, men kan läsas av alla som har ett intresse för välfärdsstatens förändring.
Hur kan vi skapa en nästa årstid i jordens historia som är full och rik av liv i alla dess former? En antologi. Vol 1
AvJohan Sparf,Louise Staxäng Torbäckm. fl.
Inbunden, Svenska, 2026
409 kr
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I denna antologi vävs ett 40-tal drömmar och idéer om hur det vore att leva på en jord rik av liv. Och hur vi mer konkret skulle kunna samskapa den tillsammans med resten av livsväven. 1962 lanserade Rachel Carson Silent Spring. I den beskrev hon – lika vetenskapligt som poetiskt – hur bekämpningsmedel som DDT först får insekterna att dö, sedan fåglarna och fiskarna, sedan även större däggdjur och människor, och själva våren att bli tyst. Om en Silent Spring är en ultimat beskrivning av det vi inte vill ha – essentiellt ett tiltande mot mer död på jorden – så är det vi istället skulle kunna samskapa en Loud Summer, en nästa årstid i jordens historia som är full och rik av liv i alla dess former; natur, kärlek, kreativitet och ande.
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Hälsoekonomisk utvärdering : metod och tillämpningar
AvMikael Svensson
Häftad, Svenska, 2019
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
420 kr
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Hur ska vi använda våra ekonomiska resurser för att skapa förutsättningar för bästa möjliga hälsa? Bör vaccin mot vattkoppor inkluderas i det nationella vaccinationsprogrammet? Hur avgörs om ett nytt läkemedel eller annan medicinsk teknologi bör subventioneras och erbjudas patienter inom det ordinarie sjukvårdsutbudet? Det är för att kunna besvara, eller åtminstone förstå hur vi kan formulera olika svar till dessa frågor, som forskare och praktiker alltmer har börjat intressera sig för hälsoekonomiska utvärderingar. I Hälsoekonomisk utvärdering presenteras de vanligaste metoderna för att genomföra hälsoekonomiska utvärderingar, där kostnaderna med olika interventioner ställs i relation till patientnyttan. Boken är skriven så att det inte ska krävas förkunskaper i ekonomi eller medicin för att kunna tillgodogöra sig innehållet. Hälsoekonomisk utvärdering riktar sig både till studenter inom hälsovetenskapliga och ekonomiska utbildningar och till andra som är intresserade av hur hälsoekonomi och kostnadseffektivitet kan användas för prioriteringsarbete inom hälso- och sjukvården och för folkhälsoarbete.
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Kannibalernas maskerad : pengar, teknik och global rättvisa i antropocen
AvAlf Hornborg
Häftad, Svenska, 2021
4,4 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(11)
243 kr
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Solpaneler och elbilar framställs ofta som avgörande faktorer i omställningen till ett klimatanpassat samhälle, som om omställningen bara skulle vara en fråga om att byta teknik. Det är lätt att glömma att det faktiskt är priserna på arbete och resurser i olika delar av världen som gör solpanelerna och elbilarna möjliga till att börja med. Vi är kort sagt lika förblindade av vår teknik som av våra konsumtionsvaror. Vi ser föremålen men inte hur mycket lågavlönat arbete och skövlad natur som de står för. När vi konsumerar – alltså metaforiskt äter – varorna förtär vi andra människors livsenergi. I "Kannibalernas maskerad" anlägger humanekologen Alf Hornborg ett antropologiskt perspektiv på hela resurs- och omställningsproblematiken och visar hur pengar och teknik i själva verket fungerar som raffinerade metoder för att tillägna sig andra människors tid och naturresurser. Både ekonomer och ingenjörer lever med den moderna synvillan att ekonomin kan bortse ifrån naturen medan tekniken handlar om fysiska ting som inget har med världssamhället att göra. Denna synvilla utmanas alltmer av antropocen – den nya tidsålder då människors verksamhet påverkar hela jordklotet. Kan vi tygla vår rovdrift på varandra och planeten genom att utforma våra pengar på nya sätt? Kan vi föreställa oss en ekonomi som tar hänsyn till människor och miljö bortom vår horisont? Kan vi genomskåda vår tids magi? Alf Hornborg är antropolog och professor i humanekologi vid Lunds universitet. Han har publicerat en rad böcker på engelska. På Daidalos har han tidigare givit ut "Myten om maskinen" (2010) och "Nollsummespelet" (2015).
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Vägar till välfärd : idéer, inspiratörer, kontroverser, perspektiv
AvHans Swärd,Per Gunnar Edebalkm. fl.
Inbunden, Svenska, 2013
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
452 kr
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Hur ska man göra för att trygga en god levnadsstandard för människor? Vem ska ha ansvaret för välfärden? Vad ska trygghetssystemen omfatta och vilka nivåer ska de ha? Vilka krav ska ställas på människor för att de ska få tillgång till olika socialförsäkringar?

Vi kommer alla i kontakt med samhällets välfärdssystem. Vid födseln genom barnbidrag och stöd till föräldrarna, under livets gång kanske genom arbetslöshetsförsäkring och föräldrapenning och senare pension. Många av oss behöver också kommunal äldrevård vid slutet av livet. Alla dessa välfärdssystem tas upp i denna rikt illustrerade antologi.

Det har länge saknats en sammanhängande beskrivning av framväxten av svensk välfärdspolitik och av de problem vi står inför i dag. Tanken med denna antologi är att råda bot på detta, genom att låta forskare från olika ämnesdiscipliner – historia, idéhistoria, ekonomisk historia, statsvetenskap, nationalekonomi, sociologi, socialpolitik och socialt arbete – utifrån sina olika perspektiv belysa förutsättningarna för framväxten och utvecklingen av svensk välfärd.

Boken vänder sig till en bred allmänhet, men också mer specifikt till dem som arbetar inom samhällets välfärdssystem, till forskare och till studenter vid universitet och högskolor som ska arbeta inom någon av välfärdens professioner.

Om författarnaHans Swärd är professor i socialt arbete vid Socialhögskolan, Lunds universitet. Hans forskning är framför allt inriktad på sociala problem, fattigdom, utsatta grupper och socialt arbete. Han har medverkat i flera forskningsprojekt om hemlöshet och är för närvarande engagerad i en nordisk studie om socialarbetares attityder till välfärd och socialt arbete. 6000 nordiska socialarbetare ingår i studien.

Per Gunnar Edebalk är fil. dr i ekonomisk historia och professor vid Socialhögskolan, Lunds universitet. Hans forskningsområden omfattar äldreomsorgens ekonomi och historia samt socialförsäkringshistoria.

Eskil Wadensjö är nationalekonom, professor i arbetsmarknadspolitik vid Institutet för social forskning (SOFI) vid Stockholms universitet sedan 1980. Han var dekan vid för den samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten vid Stockholms universitet 1996–2005. Han är föreståndare för Stockholmsuniversitets Linnécentrum för integrationsstudier (SULCIS).

”Här redovisas fakta, tankar och idéer på alla välfärdsområden på ett mycket klargörande sätt. Bra hänvisningar till referenslitteratur efter varje artikel ger goda möjligheter till ingång för vidare studier. Texterna är tillgängliga för den allmänt samhällsintresserade, men torde främst rikta sig till forskare och studerande vid universitet och högskolor. Prydlig layout, med rikligt med fotografier i färg och svartvitt, samt många tydliggörande diagram ledsagar de välskrivna texterna.” - BTJ häfte 13108173 Lektör Håkan Philipsson
Radical Abundance
How to Win a Green Democratic Future
AvKai Heron,Keir Milburnm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
213 kr
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'Rigorously argued and radically hopeful' - Grace Blakeley, author of Vulture Capitalism'Indispensable ... resets the terms of left debate' - Jodi Dean, author of Capital's GraveCapitalism has created a world of bullshit abundance, where we have too much of what we don’t need and too little of what we do. Through this system’s pursuit of profits, we have been put on a collision course with social and ecological limits that can no longer be ignored.We need an alternative. We need radical abundance. A world of human and non-human flourishing made possible by democratically planned production. But radical abundance can’t just be voted into existence through parliamentary means, it must be made by taking control of our collective reproduction in the here and now.Packed with fascinating research and real-life examples of communal planning and resistance, this book will convince you that a better future is possible, if we want it.
On Natural Capital
The Value of the World Around Us
AvPartha Dasgupta
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
145 kr
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What if we were to put a value on nature just as we value everything else?For as long as they have existed, our economic models have served us an incomplete picture. The models and metrics tell us that our economies are healthy because they are growing. However, this doesn’t account for the fact that our growth is driven by a resource that we take for free and treat as infinite: nature. We know now, more than ever, that our demand on the natural world is unsustainable. It’s no longer sufficient to only see part of the picture; it’s time that our economic models show us the whole thing.An urgent call from renowned Cambridge economist Sir Partha Dasgupta to transform the focus and structures of global economics, On Natural Capital is a bold and groundbreaking book that could, truly, change everything.'the most important person you've never heard of' - The New York Times'Partha Dasgupta provides the compass we urgently need… by bringing economics and ecology together, we can help save the natural world at what may be the last minute – and in doing so, save ourselves.’ - David Attenborough
The Laghum Economy
AvStefan Krook
E-bok
Engelska
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
195 kr
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Stefan Krook är en av Sveriges mest inflytelserika entreprenörer med en tydlig mission: att visa att företagande kan vara en kraft för gott. Han har grundat och lett bolag som Kivra, GodEl och GodFond, där hela utdelningen går till välgörenhet, samt Flower, som driver energiomställningen framåt. Sedan 2025 är han Practitioner in Residence vid Handelshögskolan i Stockholm, där han utvecklar tankarna bakom sitt nya initiativ Laghum Economy – och sin första bok med samma namn. Med erfarenhet som kund, entreprenör, investerare och ledare vill Stefan nu utmana hur vi ser på tillväxt och visa hur marknaden kan skapa välstånd inom planetens gränser. About the book:The Laghum Economy is an entrepreneur s proposal for a liveable planet a call to rethink the rules of the market without abandoning faith in it.With clarity and hope, this book unpacks the complexity of the sustainability challenge and offers a practical path forward. At the heart is the idea of a Laghum economy – a new form of mixed economy where the free market remains the engine of prosperity, while the state ensures that the rules of the game are sustainable by setting the right incentives. That way, innovation and growth can unfold within planetary boundaries.The idea of putting a price on nature is not new. What is new is the urgency and the scale required, and the way Stefan Krook demonstrates how it could be implemented.This book is only available in English.
Local Is Our Future
Steps to an Economics of Happiness
AvHelena Norberg-Hodge
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
169 kr
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From a renowned pioneer of the anti-globalization movement, a primer on working towards a localized worldFrom disappearing livelihoods to financial instability, from climate chaos to an epidemic of depression, we face crises on a number of seemingly unrelated fronts. This well-referenced book traces the common roots of these problems in a globalized economy that is incompatible with life on a finite planet. But Local is Our Future does more than just describe the problem: it describes the policy shifts and grassroots steps – many of them already underway around the world – that can move us towards the local and, thereby, towards a better world.
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Framtidens välfärd - - hållbar styrning, organisering och ledning
AvMaria Wolmesjö,Rolf Sollim. fl.
Häftad, Svenska, 2021
431 kr
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I en tid då megatrender som klimatförändringar, pandemier, flyktingströmmar och demografiska förändringar visar på världens sårbarhet finns det anledning att fundera över hur det vi kallar välfärd varit, är och kommer att bli.I den här boken sätter vi spaning på styrning, organisering och ledarskapande inom välfärden och hur det tar sig uttryck i olika verksamhetsområden och sammanhang. Det övergripande syftet är att genom ett antal spaningar på aktuella företeelser och observationer med fokus på hur olika välfärdsverksamheter styrs, organiseras och leds presentera reflektioner om framtidens utmaningar och möjliga lösningar. Analyser och reflektioner görs utifrån olika vetenskapliga perspektiv och med teman för en hållbar framtid.Boken vänder sig till dig som ställer dig undrande över vart välfärden är på väg. Författarna har i första hand haft personer som använder sig av olika välfärdstjänster, professionella som arbetar i välfärden, politiker med intresse av välfärden samt studenter som har en framtid inom välfärden i åtanke. Framtidens välfärd – hållbar styrning, organisering och ledning öppnar för en diskussion om att framtidens välfärd även berör andra grupper.
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Environmental Economics
A Very Short Introduction
AvStephen Smith
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
110 kr
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If environmental protection is costly, how much should we spend on pollution control? Is it worth reducing pollution to zero, or should we accept some level of pollution because of the economic benefits associated with it? How can we assess the benefits that people get from a less-polluted atmosphere?In broad terms, environmental economics looks at how economic activity and policy affect the environment in which we live. Some production generates pollution, such as power station emissions causing acid rain and contributing to global warming, but household consumption decisions also affect the environment, where more consumption can mean more waste sent to polluting incinerators. However, pollution is not an inevitable consequence of economic activity - environmental policies can require polluting firms to clean up their emissions, and can encourage people to change their behaviour, through environmental taxes on polluting goods, for example. Generally, though, these measures will involve some costs, such as installing pollution control equipment. So there's a trade-off: a cleaner environment, but economic costs. In recent years, many economists have argued for greater use of incentive in the form of pollution charges and emissions trading rather than more traditional direct regulation of polluters. In this Very Short Introduction, Stephen Smith discusses environmental issues including pollution control, reducing environmental damage, and global climate change policies, answering questions about how we should balance environmental and economic considerations, and what form government policies should take. Including many illustrative case studies and examples he shows that this is an exciting field of economics, and one that is at the heart of many public debates and controversies.ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
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Free Gifts
Capitalism and the Politics of Nature
AvAlyssa Battistoni
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
465 kr
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A timely new critique of capitalism’s persistent failure to value natureCapitalism is typically treated as a force for relentless commodification. Yet it consistently fails to place value on vital aspects of the nonhuman world, whether carbon emissions or entire ecosystems. In Free Gifts, Alyssa Battistoni explores capitalism’s persistent failure to value nature, arguing that the key question is not the moral issue of why some kinds of nature shouldn’t be commodified, but the economic puzzle of why they haven’t been. To understand contemporary ecological problems from biodiversity collapse to climate change, she contends, we have to understand how some things come to have value under capitalism—and how others do not. To help us do so, Battistoni recovers and reinterprets the idea of the free gift of nature used by classical economic thinkers to describe what we gratuitously obtain from the natural world, and builds on Karl Marx’s critique of political economy to show how capitalism fundamentally treats nature as free for the taking. This novel theory of capitalism’s relationship to nature not only helps us understand contemporary ecological breakdown, but also casts capitalism’s own core dynamics in a new light.Battistoni addresses four different instances of the free gift in political economic thought, each in a specific domain: natural agents in industry, pollution in the environment, reproductive labor in the household, and natural capital in the biosphere. In so doing, she offers new readings of major twentieth-century thinkers, including Friedrich Hayek, Simone de Beauvoir, Garrett Hardin, Silvia Federici, and Ronald Coase. Ultimately, she offers a novel account of freedom for our ecologically troubled present, developing a materialist existentialism to argue that capitalism limits our ability to be responsible for our relationships to the natural world, and imagining how we might live freely while valuing nature’s gifts.
Hot Money
AvNaomi Klein
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
95 kr
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In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.In Hot Money Naomi Klein lays out the evidence that deregulated capitalism is waging war on the climate, and shows that, in order to stop the damage, we must change everything we think about how our world is run.Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered by humans, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend the planet, and affirm our place at the heart of its restoration. Their words have endured through the decades, becoming the classics of a movement. Together, these books show the richness of environmental thought, and point the way to a fairer, saner, greener world.
Eat the Planet Well
AvDave Goulson
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
181 kr
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Price is Wrong
Why Capitalism Won't Save the Planet
AvBrett Christophers
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
162 kr
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RECENT TECHNICAL ADVANCES mean it is typically cheaper to produce electricity from renewable sources than from fossil fuels. Yet, around the world, the transition to green energy is happening too slowly if it is happening at all. As Brett Christophers argues, the problem is rooted in the absurdist nature of capitalist priorities: saving the planet on which our lives depend is not sufficiently profitable.
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Climate Casino
Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming World
AvWilliam D. Nordhaus
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
171 kr
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The 2018 Nobel laureate for economics analyzes the politics and economics of the central environmental issue of today and points the way to real solutions “A one-stop source on global warming, seen through the prism of a brilliant economist.”—Fred Andrews, New York Times Selected as one of the year’s best books by the Financial Times Climate change is profoundly altering our world in ways that pose major risks to human societies and natural systems. We have entered the Climate Casino and are rolling the global-warming dice, warns economist William Nordhaus. But there is still time to turn around and walk back out of the casino, and in this essential book the author explains how. Bringing together all the important issues surrounding the climate debate, Nordhaus describes the science, economics, and politics involved—and the steps necessary to reduce the perils of global warming. Using language accessible to any concerned citizen and taking care to present different points of view fairly, he discusses the problem from start to finish: from the beginning, where warming originates in our personal energy use, to the end, where societies employ regulations or taxes or subsidies to slow the emissions of gases responsible for climate change. Nordhaus offers a new analysis of why earlier policies, such as the Kyoto Protocol, failed to slow carbon dioxide emissions, how new approaches can succeed, and which policy tools will most effectively reduce emissions. In short, he clarifies a defining problem of our times and lays out the next critical steps for slowing the trajectory of global warming.
Ancient Futures
AvHelena Norberg-Hodge
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
251 kr
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Nature, Culture, and Inequality
AvThomas Piketty
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
168 kr
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A Guardian book to look out for in 2024An insightful exploration of the nature of inequality by the internationally bestselling author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century.In his newest work, Thomas Piketty explores how social inequality manifests itself very differently depending on the society and epoch in which it arises. History and culture play a central role, inequality being strongly linked to various socio-economic, political, civilisational, and religious developments. So it is culture in the broadest sense that makes it possible to explain the diversity, extent, and structure of the social inequality that we observe every day.Piketty briefly and concisely presents a lively synthesis of his work, taking up such diverse topics as education, inheritance, taxes, and the climate crisis, and provides exciting food for thought for a highly topical debate: Does natural inequality exist?
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Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
AvAnne Case,Angus Deaton
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
207 kr
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A New York Times BestsellerA Wall Street Journal BestsellerA New York Times Notable Book of 2020A New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceShortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the YearA New Statesman Book to ReadFrom economist Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton, a groundbreaking account of how the flaws in capitalism are fatal for America's working classDeaths of despair from suicide, drug overdose, and alcoholism are rising dramatically in the United States, claiming hundreds of thousands of American lives. Anne Case and Angus Deaton explain the overwhelming surge in these deaths and shed light on the social and economic forces that are making life harder for the working class. As the college educated become healthier and wealthier, adults without a degree are literally dying from pain and despair. Case and Deaton tie the crisis to the weakening position of labor, the growing power of corporations, and a rapacious health-care sector that redistributes working-class wages into the pockets of the wealthy. This critically important book paints a troubling portrait of the American dream in decline, and provides solutions that can rein in capitalism's excesses and make it work for everyone.
Dialogues on Ethical Vegetarianism
AvMichael Huemer
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
233 kr
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Worldwide every year, 83 billion animals are slaughtered on factory farms, at the end of brief lives full of suffering. Is it wrong to buy the products of this industry?In this book, two college students – a meat-eater and an ethical vegetarian – discuss this question in a series of dialogues conducted over five days. Issues covered include: how intelligence affects the badness of pain, whether consumers are responsible for the practices of the industry, how individual choices affect an industry, whether farm animals are better off living on factory farms than not existing at all, whether meat-eating is natural, whether morality protects those who cannot understand morality, whether morality protects those who are not members of society, whether humans alone possess souls, whether different creatures have different degrees of consciousness, why extreme animal welfare positions "sound crazy," and the role of empathy in moral judgment. The two go on to discuss the vegan life, why people who accept the arguments often fail to change their behavior, and how vegans should interact with non-vegans.This Second Edition also covers many new topics, including:Satisfying nutritional needs with plant-based foodsThe overall health effects of vegetarian dietsThe consumer costs of a plant-based dietSynthetic meatFood desertsChristian-inspired arguments for and against veganismProgressive-inspired arguments for and against veganismA new appendix offers readers delicious vegan recipes, including ones for Carrot Ginger Soup, Avocado Toast, Compassionate Chili, and The Smoothie of the Gods.Key Features:Thoroughly reviews the common arguments on both sides of the debateDialogue format provides the most engaging way of introducing the issuesWritten in clear, conversational prose for a popular audienceOffers new insights into the psychology of our dietary choices and our responsibility for influencing othersNew in this edition, several easy and delicious vegan recipes
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Making Care Work
Why Our Economy Should Put People First
AvNancy Folbre
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
296 kr
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A bold critique of conventional economics that reveals why the time and money we devote to care work is vital to our economic future.Our economy is much bigger than the dollar value of things we buy and sell. It depends on us—our health, our creativity, and our moral commitments. These capabilities don't have price tags but are crucial to a sustainable future. We need to acknowledge and reward the value of caring for ourselves and others, especially our children, our elderly, and those experiencing illness or disability. From leading feminist economist Nancy Folbre, Making Care Work provides a compelling historical and economic account of care provision in the United States. Folbre traces the long and colorful history of resistance to bogus claims that only paid work "counts" and that employees in care services are always paid what they deserve. Explaining why care providers remain economically vulnerable today, she argues that more attention to the public benefits of care provision could help build the political coalitions needed to implement policies that put people first. In this comprehensive and bold book, Folbre upends conventional economic thinking and maps a hopeful path toward a more equitable and sustainable economy.
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Prosperity without Growth
Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow
AvTim Jackson
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
360 kr
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What can prosperity possibly mean in a world of environmental and social limits?The publication of Prosperity without Growth was a landmark in the sustainability debate. Tim Jackson’s piercing challenge to conventional economics openly questioned the most highly prized goal of politicians and economists alike: the continued pursuit of exponential economic growth. Its findings provoked controversy, inspired debate and led to a new wave of research building on its arguments and conclusions.This substantially revised and re-written edition updates those arguments and considerably expands upon them. Jackson demonstrates that building a ‘post-growth’ economy is a precise, definable and meaningful task. Starting from clear first principles, he sets out the dimensions of that task: the nature of enterprise; the quality of our working lives; the structure of investment; and the role of the money supply. He shows how the economy of tomorrow may be transformed in ways that protect employment, facilitate social investment, reduce inequality and deliver both ecological and financial stability.Seven years after it was first published, Prosperity without Growth is no longer a radical narrative whispered by a marginal fringe, but an essential vision of social progress in a post-crisis world. Fulfilling that vision is simply the most urgent task of our times.
Introduction to Sustainability
Environmental, Social and Personal Perspectives
AvMartin Mulligan
E-bok
Engelska, 2017
761 kr
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An Introduction to Sustainability provides students with a comprehensive overview of the key concepts and ideas which are encompassed within the growing field of sustainability.
The fully updated second edition, including new figures and images, teases out the diverse but intersecting domains of sustainability and emphasises strategies for action. Aimed at those studying the subject for the first time, it is unique in giving students from different disciplinary backgrounds a coherent framework and set of core principles for applying broad sustainability principles within their own personal and professional lives. These include: working to improve equality within and across generations; moving from consumerism to quality of life goals; and respecting diversity in both nature and culture.
Areas of emerging importance such as the economics of prosperity and wellbeing stand alongside core topics including:
· Energy and society
· Consumption and consumerism
· Risk and resilience
· Waste, water and land.
Key challenges and applications are explored through international case studies, and each chapter includes a thematic essay drawing on diverse literature to provide an integrated introduction to fundamental issues.
Housed on the Routledge Sustainability Hub, the book’s companion website contains a range of features to engage students with the interdisciplinary nature of sustainability. Together these resources provide a wealth of material for learning, teaching and researching the topic of sustainability.
This textbook is an essential companion to any sustainability course.
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A Good Life on a Finite Earth
The Political Economy of Green Growth
AvDaniel J. Fiorino
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
707 kr
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The potential conflict among economic and ecological goals has formed the central fault line of environmental politics in the United States and most other countries since the 1970s. The accepted view is that efforts to protect the environment will detract from economic growth, jobs, and global competitiveness. Conversely, much advocacy on behalf of the environment focuses on the need to control growth and avoid its more damaging effects. This offers a stark choice between prosperity and growth, on the one hand, and ecological degradation on the other. Stopping or reversing growth in most countries is unrealistic, economically risky, politically difficult, and is likely to harm the very groups that should be protected. At the same time, a strategy of unguided "growth above all" would cause ecological catastrophe.Over the last decade, the concept of green growth -- the idea that the right mix of policies, investments, and technologies will lead to beneficial growth within ecological limits -- has become central to global and national debates and policy due to the financial crisis and climate change. As Daniel J. Fiorino argues, in order for green growth to occur, ecological goals must be incorporated into the structure of the economic and political systems. In this book, he looks at green growth, a vast topic that has heretofore not been systematically covered in the literature on environmental policy and politics. Fiorino looks at its role in global, national, and local policy making; its relationship to sustainable development; controversies surrounding it (both from the left and right); its potential role in ameliorating inequality; and the policy strategies that are linked with it. The book also examines the political feasibility of green growth as a policy framework. While he focuses on the United States, Fiorino will draw comparisons to green growth policy in other countries, including Germany, China, and Brazil.
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Welfare States and Immigrant Rights
The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion
AvDiane Sainsbury
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
835 kr
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Welfare States and Immigrant Rights deals with the impact of welfare states on immigrants' social rights, economic well-being and social inclusion, and it offers the first systematic comparison of immigrants' social rights across welfare states. To study immigrants' social rights the author develops an analytical framework that focuses on the interplay between 1) the type of welfare state regime, 2) forms of entry, or entry categories, and 3) the incorporation regime regulating the inclusion or exclusion of immigrants. The book maps out the development of immigrants' social rights from the early postwar period until around 2010 in six countries representing different welfare state regimes: the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Sweden, and Denmark. Part I addresses three major issues. The first is how inclusive or exclusionary welfare state policies are in relation to immigrants, and especially how the type of welfare state and incorporation regime affect their social rights. The second issue concerns changes in immigrant rights and the direction of the change: rights extension versus rights contraction. The third issue is how immigrants' social rights compare to those of citizens. Part II shifts from policies affecting immigrant rights to the politics of the policies. It examines the politics of inclusion and exclusion in the six countries, focusing on social rights extension and contraction and changes in the policy dimensions of the incorporation regime that impinge on immigrant rights.
Power
Limits and Prospects for Human Survival
AvRichard Heinberg
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
210 kr
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Impeccably researched and masterfully written, this book explains how and why humanity is driving itself off the cliff. — Dahr Jamail, author, The End of IceWeaving together findings from a wide range of disciplines, Power traces how four key elements developed to give humans extraordinary power: tool making ability, language, social complexity, and the ability to harness energy sources ― most significantly, fossil fuels. It asks whether we have, at this point, overpowered natural and social systems, and if we have, what we can do about it.Has Homo sapiens — one species among millions — become powerful enough to threaten a mass extinction and disrupt the Earth's climate? Why have we developed so many ways of oppressing one another? Can we change our relationship with power to avert ecological catastrophe, reduce social inequality, and stave off collapse?These questions — and their answers — will determine our fate.
Surviving the Future
Culture, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy
AvDavid Fleming,Shaun Chamberlin
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
162 kr
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Surviving the Future is a story drawn from the fertile ground of the late David Fleming’s extraordinary Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It. That hardback consists of four hundred and four interlinked dictionary entries, inviting readers to choose their own path through its radical vision.Recognizing that Lean Logic’s sheer size and unusual structure can be daunting, Fleming’s long-time collaborator Shaun Chamberlin has selected and edited one of these potential narratives to create Surviving the Future. The content, rare insights, and uniquely enjoyable writing style remain Fleming’s, but are presented here at a more accessible paperback-length and in conventional read-it-front-to-back format.The subtitle—Culture, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy—hints at Fleming’s vision. He believed that the market economy will not survive its inherent flaws beyond the early decades of this century, and that its failure will bring great challenges, but he did not dwell on this: “We know what we need to do. We need to build the sequel, to draw on inspiration which has lain dormant, like the seed beneath the snow.”Surviving the Future lays out a compelling and powerfully different new economics for a post-growth world. One that relies not on taut competitiveness and eternally increasing productivity—“putting the grim into reality”—but on the play, humor, conversation, and reciprocal obligations of a rich culture. Building on a remarkable breadth of intellectual and cultural heritage—from Keynes to Kumar, Homer to Huxley, Mumford to MacIntyre, Scruton to Shiva, Shakespeare to Schumacher—Fleming describes a world in which, as he says, “there will be time for music.”This is the world that many of us want to live in, yet we are told it is idealistic and unrealistic. With an evident mastery of both economic theory and historical precedent, Fleming shows that it is not only desirable, but actually the only system with a realistic claim to longevity. With friendliness, humor, and charm, Surviving the Future plucks this vision out of our daydreams and shows us how to make it real.

Miljöekonomi

Introduction to Sustainability

Det här förändrar allt : kapitalismen kontra klimatet

Slow Down or Die

Välfärdsstat i förändring : socialpolitiska reformer i Västeuropa på 2000-talet

Hur kan vi skapa en nästa årstid i jordens historia som är full och rik av liv i alla dess former? En antologi. Vol 1

Hälsoekonomisk utvärdering : metod och tillämpningar

Kannibalernas maskerad : pengar, teknik och global rättvisa i antropocen

Vägar till välfärd : idéer, inspiratörer, kontroverser, perspektiv

Radical Abundance

On Natural Capital

The Laghum Economy

Local Is Our Future

Framtidens välfärd - - hållbar styrning, organisering och ledning

Environmental Economics

Free Gifts

Hot Money

Eat the Planet Well

Price is Wrong

Climate Casino

Ancient Futures

Nature, Culture, and Inequality

Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism

Dialogues on Ethical Vegetarianism

Making Care Work

Prosperity without Growth

Introduction to Sustainability

A Good Life on a Finite Earth

Welfare States and Immigrant Rights

Power

Surviving the Future