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SPRINGER © 2020 Ebook ISBN 978-981-15-1443-2 / Hardcover SPRINGER © 2020 eBook ISBN 978-981-15-1443-2 / Hardcover ISBN 978-981-15 1442-5 Planetary Accounting Quantifying How to Live Within Planetary Limits at Different Scales of Human Activity / Authors: Meyer, Kate, Newman, Peter Addresses the political and behavioural as well as the scientific problems that we are facing today Introduces the novel concepts of Planetary Quotas and the Planetary Accounting framework – the first scalable and actionable framework of planetary limits derived from the much-quoted Planetary Boundaries – in a comprehensible format for all levels of action. Shows how every person can take responsibility as “kaitiaki” (stewards) of our planet. Provides tangible details, helping the reader to understand how the novel elements of the book can be applied to real-world situations. Extends for the first time the concept of carbon accounting to encompass other key global, scientifically derived, environmental limits This book presents a novel way to enable people, regardless of their scale of influence, to take responsibility for global environmental problems including climate change. It introduces a new framework called Planetary Accounting, which allows the Planetary Boundaries, non-negotiable limits for the environment, to be translated into limits for human activity. It shows how such limits can be broken down into chunks that can be managed at different levels (from individual and community, to business and sector levels, to cities and regions), and at any level of government. The book begins by summarising the science of climate change and introducing the notion of the Anthropocene – the “human age”. It highlights the importance of returning to and remaining within the Planetary Boundaries but shows that we can’t realistically do so unless we have a new approach to environmental accounting. The book then outlines how Planetary Accounting furnishes this new approach by combining sustainability science, change theory, and environmental accounting to create a scalable framework for environmental management that encourages systemic and individual change. The details of the science of and our human contribution to ten critical human pressures are then presented, and the book concludes with a guide for those seeking to apply Planetary Accounting in practice. Planetary Accounting could form the scientific underpinning of behaviour change programs, guide the development of policy and regulations, and provide both the basis for environmental laws, and the foundation of future global environmental agreements. It has been 50 years since the first views from space showed a blue planet alone in our solar system. This book is an historic opportunity to provide humanity for the first time with sufficient information to begin implementing Planetary Accounting. Table of contents (18 chapters) Introduction Pages 1-8 Meyer, Kate (et al.) The Science of Anthropogenic Climate Change Pages 11-33 Meyer, Kate (et al.) The Holocene, the Anthropocene, and the Planetary Boundaries Pages 35-52 Meyer, Kate (et al.) Managing the Earth System: Why We Need a Poly-Scalar Approach Pages 53-71 Meyer, Kate (et al.) Environmental Accounting, Absolute Limits, and Systemic Change Pages 73-88 Meyer, Kate (et al.) Resolving the Disconnect Between Earth-System Science, Management Theory, and Environmental Accounting Pages 89-105 Meyer, Kate (et al.) Translating the Planetary Boundaries into Planetary Quotas Pages 109-120 Meyer, Kate (et al.) A Planetary Quota for Carbon Dioxide Pages 121-136 Meyer, Kate (et al.) A Quota for Agricultural GHG Emissions (Methane and Nitrous Oxide) Pages 137-145 Meyer, Kate (et al.) A Quota for Forestland Pages 147-155 Meyer, Kate (et al.) A Quota for Ozone-Depleting Substances Pages 157-166 Meyer, Kate (et al.) A Quota for Aerosols Pages 167-180 Meyer, Kate (et al.) A Quota for Water Pages 181-196 Meyer, Kate (et al.) A Quota for Nitrogen Pages 197-206 Meyer, Kate (et al.) The Phosphorus Quota Pages 207-219 Meyer, Kate (et al.) The Biodiversity Quota Pages 221-239 Meyer, Kate (et al.) The Imperishable Waste Quota Pages 241-247 Meyer, Kate (et al.) The Planetary Accounting Framework Pages 251-278 Meyer, Kate (et al.) Hardback Ethics and Politics of Space for the Anthropocene Edited by Anu Valtonen and Outi Rantala, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Lapland, Finland and Paolo Davide Farah, Associate Professor, West Virginia University, Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, John D. Rockefeller IV School of Policy and Politics, Department of Public Administration, US and Founder, President and Director, gLAWcal - Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development, UK Publication Date: October 2020 ISBN: 978 1 83910 869 3 Extent: c 240 pp Featuring an international, multidisciplinary set of contributors, this thought- provoking book reimagines established narratives of the Anthropocene to allow differences in regions and contexts to be taken seriously, emphasising the importance of localised and situated knowledge. It offers critical engagement with the debates around the Anthropocene by challenging the dominant techno-rational agenda that often prevails in socio-political and academic discussions. ABSTRACT Featuring an international, multidisciplinary set of contributors, this thought- provoking book reimagines established narratives of the Anthropocene to allow differences in regions and contexts to be taken seriously, emphasising the importance of localised and situated knowledge. Envisaging a narrative of change that renders visible the complex transformations taking place across the globe, this book outlines new and radical ways to address the current environmental crisis in a more sustainable and context-specific manner. It presents empirical studies from various contexts, highlighting the potentiality of non- Western knowledge, concepts and categories as well as recognising the entanglement of humans with other beings and ecosystems. In particular, it offers critical engagement with the debates around the Anthropocene by challenging the dominant techno-rational agenda that often prevails in socio-political and academic discussions. This book will be crucial reading for researchers and post-graduate students working in fields from human geography and tourism studies to law, public policy and administration, philosophy, politics and organisation studies who are dealing with intersecting issues of environment, sustainability, indigenous rights, space and ethics. It will also be helpful for policy makers and research consultants in leveraging localised solutions to the current ecological crisis. Contents: 1 Introduction: reimagining ways of talking about the Anthropocene 1 Anu Valtonen and Outi Rantala PART I REIMAGINATIONS 2 Imagining place and politics in the Anthropocene 17 Forrest Clingerman 3 Walking with rocks – with care 35 Outi Rantala, Anu Valtonen and Tarja Salmela 4 On scientific fabulation: storytelling in the more-than-human world 51 Emily Höckert PART II STORIES FROM MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES 5 Rethinking knowledge, power, agency: learning from displaced and slum communities in Bangladesh 72 Afroja Khanam and Tiina Seppälä 6 Spaces of climate justice: towards an ethical politics of intervention in the Anthropocene 107 Paul Routledge 7 Between extractivism and sacredness: the struggle for environmental inheritances by the Adivasi communities of India 124 Arpita Bisht PART III LAW AND TECHNOLOGY 8 Beyond the Capitalocene: an ecocentric perspective for the energy transition 150 Giovanni Frigo 9 Temporality, technology and justice in Hannah Arendt: a critical approach 175 Jana Lozanoska 10 The Anthropocene and climate change in the post-Paris Agreement debate 197 Paolo Davide Farah and Marek Prityi 11 The role of imagination, marginalized communities, law and technology in building an ethical approach to the Anthropocene 210 Paolo Davide Farah Index Hardback Research Handbook on Polar Law Edited by Karen N. Scott, Professor of Law, School of Law, University of Canterbury, New Zealand and David L. VanderZwaag, Professor of Law and Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Ocean Law and Governance, Marine and Environmental Law Institute, Dalhousie University, Canada Publication Date: December 2020 ISBN: 978 1 78811 958 0 Extent: c 520 pp This timely Research Handbook explores the concept of polar law as a coherent body of law and as a set of rules and principles that applies to both the Arctic and Antarctic. It captures the evolution of polar law and policy, identifying future directions for research in this emerging and growing field. More Information This timely Research Handbook explores the concept of polar law as a coherent body of law and as a set of rules and principles that applies to both the Arctic and Antarctic. It captures the evolution of polar law and policy, identifying future directions for research in this emerging and growing field. Expert international contributors analyse the concept of polar law across a range of areas including human rights, bioprospecting, tourism, environmental protection and fisheries management. They examine how Antarctic and Arctic regional regimes contribute to polar law, scrutinizing international treaties, agreements and arrangements. With a focus on the evolution of polar law in the context of the Anthropocene, chapters cover key issues related to the poles, such as climate change, minerals exploration and boundary disputes. Demonstrating the benefits of polar as opposed to bipolar law, this Research Handbook provides a critical assessment
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