Making Environmental Markets Work

Tabitha M. Benney is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and affiliated faculty at the Center on Global Change and Sustainability at the University of Utah. She received her PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara and her MA in International Affairs from Georgetown University. Previously she worked in the Policy and Global Affairs Division of the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) from 2002–2007. Her research interests include International Relations, International Political Economy, Environmental Politics, Global Governance and Comparative Research Methods. Professor Benney’s work has been published in Energy Policy, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change and the Review of International Political Economy. She has also received numerous grants and fellowships including the Louis G. Lancaster International Relations Fellowship from 2008–2011.

• Selected Contents: 1. Introduction and Overview 2. Understanding the Emerging Market Economies 3. Theories of Comparative Capitalism 4. Measuring Environmental Outcomes of Capitalism 5. Varieties of Capitalism (VoC) in the Developing World 6. The Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) Research Process 7. Determinates of Market Formation: Applying a Mixed Method Approach 8. Findings and Implications 9. Conclusions and Implications for Future Research. Appendix. References. Index

"This is an important book written at the right time. In an era when governments, businesses, and publics are seeking ways to reconcile capitalism with environmental and climate policies, when carbon markets and carbon taxes are being actively debated, and when climate science tells us we need to act, Benney's analysis lays bare crucial foundations for moving forward. Extending the varieties of capitalism literature to encompass emerging economies as she does here is a significant contribution by itself, but Benney takes us further using these insights to advance our understanding of the development of carbon markets and environmental governance. In bringing together literatures that are too often siloed, this book sheds new and important light on the determinants of success in developing carbon markets and progress in global environmental governance. The analysis is compelling with a creative development and deployment of rigorous methods, especially the Boolean Qualitative Comparative Analysis, and lucid prose that guides the reader through sophisticated theoretical and methodological terrain towards insightful payoff without sacrificing sophistication or rigor."—Matthew Hoffmann, University of Toronto, Canada