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The New Carbon Economy: Constitution, Governance and Contestation

Peter Newell (Editor), Max Boykoff (Editor), Emily Boyd (Editor)
ISBN: 978-1-4443-5022-7
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208 pages
February 2012, Wiley-Blackwell
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List of Contributors vii

1 The “New” Carbon Economy: What’s New?
Emily Boyd, Maxwell Boykoff and Peter Newell 1

2 The Matter of Carbon: Understanding the Materiality of tCO2e in Carbon Offsets
Adam G. Bumpus 13

3 Making Markets Out of Thin Air: A Case of Capital Involution
María Gutíerrez 41

4 Between Desire and Routine: Assembling Environment and Finance in Carbon Markets
Philippe Descheneau and Matthew Paterson 65

5 Ecological Modernisation and the Governance of Carbon: A Critical Analysis
Ian Bailey, Andy Gouldson and Peter Newell 85

6 Accounting for Carbon: The Role of Accounting Professional Organisations in Governing Climate Change
Heather Lovell and Donald MacKenzie 107

7 Realizing Carbon’s Value: Discourse and Calculation in the Production of Carbon Forestry Offsets in Costa Rica
David M. Lansing 135

8 Resisting and Reconciling Big Wind: Middle Landscape Politics in the New American West
Roopali Phadke 159

Index 183