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Sustainability and Energy Politics

Ecological Modernisation and Corporate Social Responsibility

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  • © 2015

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Authors:
  1. Giorel Curran

    1. Department of Politics and Public Policy, Griffith University, Australia

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Part of the book series: Energy, Climate and the Environment (ECE)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Giorel Curran
      Pages 1-14

  3. Theorising Contemporary Sustainability

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. Sustainability Today: From Fringe to Mainstream

      • Giorel Curran
      Pages 17-44

    3. Ecological Modernisation: Promises and Prospects

      • Giorel Curran
      Pages 45-68

    4. Corporate Social Responsibility: Business Stepping Up?

      • Giorel Curran
      Pages 69-93

  4. Practising Contemporary Sustainability

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95
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    2. The Politics of Climate Change: Fight and Flight

      • Giorel Curran
      Pages 97-128

    3. Unconventional Gas and Social Licence: Locking the Gate?

      • Giorel Curran
      Pages 129-157

    4. Renewable Energy Transitions: Powering the Future?

      • Giorel Curran
      Pages 158-186

    5. Conclusion

      • Giorel Curran
      Pages 187-193

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 194-235
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About this book

The author explores the fraught politics of energy transitions in an age of climate change. She does so through an ecological modernisation and corporate social responsibility lens which she contends shapes and underpins sustainability today. Case studies cover climate policy, unconventional gas and renewable energy.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Politics and Public Policy, Griffith University, Australia

    Giorel Curran

About the author

Giorel Curran is Senior Lecturer in the School of Government and International Relations and the Centre for Governance and Public Policy at Griffith University, Australia. Her research focuses on environmental politics, climate policy, global political movements, green political theory and global political economy. She has published widely in all these areas. Some of her recent books include 21st Century Dissent: Anarchism, Anti-Globalisation and Environmentalism (2006); and the co-edited collections Business and the Politics of Globalisation: After the GFC (2010), and Government and Business in Volatile Times (2013).

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