Heat, Greed and Human Need: Climate Change, Capitalism and Sustainable Wellbeing
By I. Gough. International Dialogue, 2017
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In this wonderful book, Ian Gough shows how we can deal with climate change sensibly, by developing eco-social policy that promotes human wellbeing. The result is a tour de force. Demonstrating sophisticated knowledge of several relevant fields, Gough combines important multidisciplinary insights with his previous groundbreaking research on human needs. The result is a coherent, usable framework that has considerable value in guiding policy discussions. This impressive work is bound to become essential reading for anyone working on policy, climate change and sustainable human well-being.
Subfields: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
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Citations in the corpus
- Welfare systems without economic growth: A review of the challenges and next steps for the field (2021, background): “…the most basic conceptual level, as new social needs have emerged over time, driven largely by “demography, family change and socioeconomic shifts”10 (Gough, 2017, p. 115), economic growth has helped to avoid distributional conflicts for governments by providing the option to meet this growing…”
- Socio-economic conditions for satisfying human needs at low energy use: An international analysis of social provisioning (2021, background): “, 2021) or even required (Gough, 2017) for reconciling human well-being with ecological sustainability.”
- Is Green Growth Possible? (2019, unknown): “As Gough (2017) notes, combatting climate change might require not only new clean and efficient energy technologies, but also a reduction and re-composition of consumption, with a shift from carbon-intensive to low or zero carbon sectors.”
- A Green New Deal without growth? (2021, background): “The decommodification of essential services aims at transferring their allocation away from the sphere of the market and to the sphere of social rights (Gough, 2017).”