A livable planet : human rights in the global economy / Madison Powers.
Humanity faces an ecological predicament, consisting of a cluster of concurrent, mutually reinforcing crises. They are causally intertwined and resistant to resolution in isolation. In addition to climate disruption, the cluster includes land-system change, loss of biodiversity and biosphere integri...
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- A Livable Planet
- Copyright
- Contents
- 1. Our Ecological Predicament
- Convergent Crises
- Summary of Chapters
- 2. Sustainability and Political Economy
- Conceptions of Sustainability
- The Logic of Capitalism
- Psychological Explanations
- Economic Growth
- The By-​Product of Inequality
- Practical Implications
- 3. Market Fundamentalism
- Market Fundamentalism and Neoliberal Policies
- Three Rationales for Market Fundamentalism
- The Non-​Interference Conception of Freedom
- 4. Human Rights and Ecological Goals
- The Normative Framework of Human Rights
- Rights, Duties, and Structural Inequality
- Three Problems of Application
- Rights, Duties, and Violations
- 5. Market Power and Legal Advantage
- The Consolidation of Market Power
- The Realignment of State Power
- Gaming the System of States
- Control over Capital Investment
- 6. Land Use and Its Consequences
- Farmland and Food Security
- Impacts Beyond Land
- Forests and Biosphere Integrity
- Land and Human Rights
- 7. Water and Social Organization
- The Management of Scarcity
- The Political Economy of Water Resources
- The Privatization of Essential Services
- 8. Energy Transition Pathways
- False Hopes
- False Starts
- Path Dependencies
- Human Rights and Alternative Pathways
- 9. Control over the Future
- Wealth and Power
- Sovereign States and Global Problems
- Notes
- Index