Below you can read the abstracts for the two chapters that Dr. Annika Pissin is co-author of:
Chapter 9: Transitions towards degrowth and sustainable welfare: Carbon emission reduction and wealth and income distribution in France, the US and China
Hubert Buch-Hansen, Annika Pissin and Erin Kennedy
This chapter notes that existing growth-critical research generally fails to take into consideration the importance of capitalist diversity for degrowth transitions and their outcomes. Against this background the chapter outlines some scenarios of how the diversity of current institutions and practices in France, the US and China could translate into diverse ways of dealing with two issues that have been identified as being of major importance to welfare regimes in a non-growing economy: the reduction of carbon emissions and the distribution of income and wealth. In addition the paper reflects upon what social forces or practices could be pivotal for attaining the goal of a non-growing economic system in the three countries in question.
Chapter 11: What is possible, what is imaginable: Stories about low carbon life in China
Erin Kennedy and Annika Pissin
Low carbon life in China from the perspectives of today’s Mainland youth. We draw from World Café discussions with university students and use supporting evidence from the blogs of Mainland Children to explore the pressing environmental issues that face China’s future generations. Participants outline their visions for their futures, highlighting key environmental issues that need to be tackled, the correlating actors who need to be involved and the roles and responsibilities at the individual, corporate and government levels. This chapter discusses the importance of including the voices of youth in environmental discussions. Today’s children are the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and will experience the affects of climate change throughout their lives. From the World Café discussions and children’s blogs we gain insight into how China’s youth are conceptualizing low carbon life, we hear their desire for change, their desire to participate in a change as well as their concerns over how to actually create a valuable impact on environmental issues as well as a resistance to change. This full spectrum of responses provides anecdotal insight into the perspectives towards low carbon life in China as a whole. It also sheds light the gaps and shortcomings of low carbon policies and low carbon movements thus far.
You can read more about the book here.
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