Decarbonising Economies

Based on an interdisciplinary investigation of future visions scenarios and case-studies of low carbon innovation taking place across economic domains Decarbonising Economies analyses the ways in which questions of agency power geography and materiality shape the conditions of possibility for a low carbon future. It explores how and why the challenge of changing our economies are variously ascribed to a lack of finance a lack of technology a lack of policy and a lack of public engagement and shows how the realities constraining change are more fundamentally tied to the inertia of our existing high carbon society and limited visions for what a future low carbon world might become. Through showcasing the first seeds of innovation seeking to enable transformative change Decarbonising Economies will also chart a course for future research and policy action towards our climate goals. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.