Abstract
The book entitled, Heat Greed and Human Need: Climate Change, Capitalism and Sustainable Wellbeing provides' an economic, social,. and political analyses of the drivers of climate change. It investigates the politica:I economy of capitalism and offers a longterm, interdisciplinary analysis to mitigate the effec.1 of climate change on temperature, while also improving equity and social justice. The book is divided into two parts. Part I covers the conceptual and global issues while Part '11 focuses on the affluent world. The climate change is a global threat, posing existential dangers while at the same time posing wicked dilemmas in coordinating global action to constrain it. These issues are of epochal significance and provide sufficient justification for Part I. The second part analyses 'welfare states' of the developed world. It acf'dresses how far they are dependent on the carbon econQmy and how they can be nifOimed to pursue both carbon mitigation and human welfare simultaneously. This leads into analyses of policy-making under different scenarios o( production, consumption and growth. Different 'eco-social' policies that could combine sustainable livelihood with human well-being are proposed and conclusions are summarised.
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Ian Gough, Heat Greed, Human Need, Climate Change, Capitalism, Sustainable Wellbeing, Cheltenham, UK