Survival Governance

Released on by Peter Drahos
preview-18

  • Survival Governance Book Detail

  • Author : Peter Drahos
  • Release Date : 2021-01-29
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Genre : Political Science
  • Pages : 256
  • ISBN 13 : 0197534775
  • File Size : 16,16 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

Survival Governance by Peter Drahos PDF Summary

Book Description: To deal with the climate crisis we need a new paradigm of technological and social development aimed at the restoration of ecological systems--the bio-digital energy paradigm--and China is the world power best positioned to lead this change. The climate and energy crisis requires a strong state to change the direction, speed, and scale of innovation in world capitalism. There are only a few possible contenders for catalyzing this governance of survival: China, the European Union, India, and the United States. While China is an improbable leader--and in fact the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gasses--Peter Drahos explains in Survival Governance why this authoritarian state is actually more likely to implement systemic change swiftly and effectively than any other power. Drawing on more than 250 interviews, carried out in 17 countries--including the world's four largest carbon emitters--Drahos shows what China is doing to make its vast urban network sustainable and why all states must work toward a "bio-digital energy paradigm" based on a globalized, city-based network of innovation. As Drahos explains, America is incapable of reducing the power of its fossil fuel industry. For its part, the European Union's approach is too incremental and slowed by complex internal negotiations to address a crisis that demands a rapid response. India's capacity to be a global leader on energy innovation is questionable. To be sure, China faces hurdles too. Its coal-based industrial system is enormous, and the US, worried about losing technological superiority, is trying to slow China's development. Even so, China is currently urbanizing innovation on a historically unprecedented scale, building eco-cities, hydrogen cities, forest cities, and sponge cities (designed to cope with flooding). This has the potential to move cities into a new relationship with their surrounding ecosystems. China--given the size of its economy and the central government's ability to dictate thoroughgoing policy change--is, despite all of its flaws, presently our best hope for implementing the sort of policy overhaul that can begin to slow climate change.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Survival Governance books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Survival Governance

Survival Governance

File Size : 42,42 MB
Total View : 2621 Views
DOWNLOAD

To deal with the climate crisis we need a new paradigm of technological and social development aimed at the restoration of ecological systems--the bio-digital e

Survival Migration

Survival Migration

File Size : 66,66 MB
Total View : 5302 Views
DOWNLOAD

International treaties, conventions, and organizations to protect refugees were established in the aftermath of World War II to protect people escaping targeted

Green Governance

Green Governance

File Size : 42,42 MB
Total View : 2561 Views
DOWNLOAD

The vast majority of the world's scientists agree: we have reached a point in history where we are in grave danger of destroying Earth's life-sustaining capacit

Survival Governance

Survival Governance

File Size : 59,59 MB
Total View : 6863 Views
DOWNLOAD

Preface -- The argument in summary -- Choosing among implausible leaders -- Technology choices -- The geo-energy trilemma and its mis-management -- 'Winners' an