Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of the Environment

Éloi Laurent is Senior Economist at OFCE/Sciences Po, France, Professor at the School of Management and Innovation at Sciences Po and Ponts ParisTech and a visiting professor at Stanford University, USA.Klara Zwickl is Assistant Professor at the WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria.

• (1) Introduction: Political Economy of the Environment in the Century of Ecological Crises (2) Political Economy of the Environment: a look back and ahead Part 1. Inequality and the Environment A theoretical, empirical and historical framework (3) The Sustainability-Justice Nexus (4) A socio-metabolic perspective on (material) growth and inequality (5) The history of environmental and energy economics through the lens of political economy Global and Regional Political Economy of the Environment (6) Global Environmental and Climate Justice Movements (7) Global inequalities and climate change (8) Natural disasters, poverty and inequality: new metrics for fairer policies (9) Contracts and Dispossession: Agribusiness Venture Agreements in the Philippines (10) Natural Resources, Climate Change and Inequality in Africa (11) From Western Pennsylvania to the World: Environmental Injustice and the Ethane-to>Plastics Global Production Network (12) Latin America Caught Between Inequality and Natural Capital Degradation: a view from macro and micro data (13) Air quality co-benefits of climate mitigation in the European Union (14) Designing Urban Sustainability: Environmental Justice in EU-Funded Projects Part 2. From analysis to modelling and policy From analysis to policy (15) From the Welfare State to the Social-ecological State (16) Promoting Justice in Global Climate Policies (17) Carbon Pricing and Climate Justice (18) Political economy of border carbon adjustment (19) Political Economy of Forest Protection Modelling and policy (20) Informing the political economy of energy and climate transitions: modelling tools, pathways design frameworks and analytical challenges (21) Diagnostics and Policy tools to measure and mitigate environmental health inequalities (22) Building on the Right-to-Know: Data Interlinkage and Information Intermediation for Environmental and Corporate Regulation (23) Conclusion: New frontiers in the political economy of the environment

"Tackling the unprecedented challenges of the 21st century will depend to a great extent on the social sciences we use to understand them and to suggest appropriate interventions. Yet the pre-eminent social science, economics, remains largely blind and uninterested regarding two of the most pressing challenges: the environment and inequality. This landmark volume tackles both of these gaps together and head on, introducing readers to a growing body of exciting work that aims to revolutionize economics, and thereby to tackle the grievous and daunting injustices of our age. A must-read for anyone interested in a deeper reconstruction of the economic ideas that have shaped our current crisis and how they can be transformed."- David Tyfield, Professor of Sustainable Transitions and Political Economy, Lancaster University, UK