The Rise and Fall of Carbon Emissions Trading

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction

   • Declan Kuch

   Pages 1-12

3. The Rise of Emissions Trading as a Market Mechanism and the Promise of ‘Civilized Markets’

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   Pages 13-28

4. Marketizing Civil Regulation: Acid Rain Regulation as the Experimental Bridge to Carbon Markets

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   Pages 29-59

5. Governing Carbon Emissions: NSW GGAS

   • Declan Kuch

   Pages 60-94

6. The Technopolitics of National Carbon Accounts

   • Declan Kuch

   Pages 95-119

7. ‘Economists in the Wild’: Clean Development and the Global Politics of Carbon Offsets

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   Pages 120-147

8. The Paradox of Measurable Counterfactuals and the Fall of Emissions Trading

   • Declan Kuch

   Pages 148-162

9. Conclusion: Beyond 8%: Resituating Emissions Trading

   • Declan Kuch

   Pages 163-169

10. Back Matter

    Pages 170-206

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This book presents the results of the first full-scale emissions trading schemes in Australia and internationally, arguing these schemes will not be sufficient to 'civilize markets' and prevent dangerous climate change. Instead, it articulates the ways climate policy needs to confront the collective nature of our predicament.

• Acid rain
• carbon
• climate
• climate change
• development
• emissions
• Rain
• climate change impacts

• University of New South Wales, Australia

  Declan Kuch

Declan Kuch is Research Fellow in the School of Law at the University of South Wales, Australia. He has published on public engagement with science and technology, and worked as a consultant on the 'Securing Australia's Future' project for the Australian Council of Learned Academies. His current research focuses on socio-legal dimensions of ownership and control over energy projects.

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