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Dancing to the Rhythms of the Fossil Fuel Landscape: Landscape Inertia and the Temporal Limits to Market-Based Climate Policy.
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Antipode . Jan2017, Vol. 49 Issue 1, p43-61. 19p. - Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- This article makes a contribution to the critique of market-based mechanisms for climate and energy policy. It explores the environmental effectiveness of market instruments by engaging a broadly conceived 'fossil fuel landscape', or the material, social, and political inertia of fossil energy dependence, as a factor delimiting policy outcomes. The argument is developed through a focus on the idea of economic efficiency as a key ideological construct underlying market-based policy, and draws on examples from two different market instruments, namely the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, and the Flemish tradable green certificate scheme. I argue that an understanding of the shortcomings of these, and similar, policies requires acknowledgment of the political and socio-economic power that emanates from the temporal dynamics of fossil fuel capitalism, which are reproduced when economic efficiency becomes the key focus of climate policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00664812
- Volume :
- 49
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Antipode
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 120533536
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12262