Capitalism and Climate Change

MAX KOCH Professor at the Department of Social Work and Social Welfare, Lund University, Sweden. He has previously published Roads to Post-Fordism: Labour Markets and Social Structures in Europe and Diversity, Standardization and Social Transformation: Gender, Ethnicity and Inequality in Europe (co-edited with L. McMillan and B. Peper).

• Dedication List of Tables List of Abbreviations Acknowledgement Introduction PART I: CAPITALIST DEVELOPMENT AND THE REGULATION OF SOCIETY AND NATURE Nature and the Work Process Capitalism, Nature and Climate Change: A Structural Analysis  The Regulation of Nature and Society in Different Capitalist Growth Strategies PART II: FORDISM The Origins of a New Accumulation Regime The Geographic Extension of Fordism Mode of Societalisation and Consumption Norm A Fossil Energy Regime PART III: FINANCE-DRIVEN CAPITALISM The Rise of a Finance-Driven Accumulation Regime The Recomposition of the International Division of Labour A Worldwide Consumption Norm (Based on Debt) and the Financial Crisis  The Globalisation of the Fossil Energy Regime PART IV: THE INTERNATIONAL REGULATION OF CLIMATE CHANGE OR THE COMMODIFICATION OF THE ATMOSPHERE  Multinational Governance in an Unequal World: The Kyoto Process and the Actors Involved  Theory and Practice of Carbon Emission Trading: The Case of the EU ETS The Flaws of Free-Market Solutions for Climate Change Prevention and their Homology to a Finance-Driven Accumulation Regime Concluding Remarks Endnotes Index