The Political Economy of Addressing the Climate Crisis in the Earth System: Undermining Perverse Resilience

New Political Economy

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 198-226

  Phelan, Liam ^a   Henderson Sellers, Ann ^b   Taplin, Ros ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

climate change; complex adaptive systems; hegemony; neo Gramscian political economy; resilience; social ecological systems

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; HEGEMONY; POLITICAL ECONOMY;

EID: 84866273658     PISSN: 13563467     EISSN: 14699923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13563467.2012.678820     Document Type: Article

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