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Peak Oil, Climate Change, and the Limits to China's Economic Growth Minqi Li (University of Utah, USA)

Peak Oil, Climate Change, and the Limits to China's Economic Growth By Minqi Li (University of Utah, USA)

Peak Oil, Climate Change, and the Limits to China's Economic Growth by Minqi Li (University of Utah, USA)


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This book analyses energy development in the broader context of economic and social changes, and evaluates the implications of ecological limits to growth on the economic system whilst arguing that the existing capitalist system is fundamentally incompatible with ecological sustainability. The Chinese context is naturally central to this.

Peak Oil, Climate Change, and the Limits to China's Economic Growth Summary

Peak Oil, Climate Change, and the Limits to China's Economic Growth by Minqi Li (University of Utah, USA)

This book studies the limits imposed by the depletion of fossil fuels and the requirements of climate stabilization on economic growth with a focus on China. The book intends to examine the potentials of various energy resources, including oil, natural gas, coal, nuclear, wind, solar, and other renewables, as well as energy efficiency. Unlike many other books on the subject, this book intends to argue that, despite the large potentials of renewable energies and energy efficiency, economic growth eventually will have to be brought to an end as China and the world undertake the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energies.

China has overtaken the US to become the world's largest energy consumer and greenhouse gas emitter. Their energy consumption is dominated by coal and China now accounts for one quarter of the world's total carbon dioxide emissions. Moreover, China is set to become the world's largest oil importer in the next decade.

This book will consider energy development in the broader context of economic and social changes, especially the historical dynamics of the capitalist world system. Historical lessons of capitalism and socialism will be discussed. The book will evaluate the implications of ecological limits to growth on the economic system and argue that the existing capitalist system is fundamentally incompatible with ecological sustainability.

About Minqi Li (University of Utah, USA)

Minqi Li is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Utah, USA

Table of Contents

1. Peak Oil, Climate Change, and China 2. China and the Capitalist World System 3. Energy and the Economy 4. Peak Oil 5. Peak Energy and the Limits to Global Economic Growth 6. Peak Energy and the Limits to China's Economic Growth 7. The Crisis of the Chinese Capitalism 8. China and Climate Change 9. Transition to the End of Growth

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NPB9780415637541
9780415637541
0415637546
Peak Oil, Climate Change, and the Limits to China's Economic Growth by Minqi Li (University of Utah, USA)
New
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2014-01-30
192
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