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Riskscapes, politics of scaling and climate change: towards the post-carbon society?

Author(s) -

Jonathan Everts,

Katja Müller

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

cambridge journal of regions economy and society

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.468

H-Index - 54

eISSN - 1752-1378

pISSN - 1752-1386

DOI - 10.1093/cjres/rsaa007

Subject(s) - politics , german , climate change , scale (ratio) , control reconfiguration , diversity (politics) , economic system , coal , political science , political economy , natural resource economics , economics , geography , engineering , ecology , cartography , archaeology , law , biology , embedded system

The concept of riskscapes has so far not embraced the concept of scale in any deeper sense. A conceptual integration of scale is needed, however, when dealing with the diversity of risks involved in opposing economic and environmental rationalities. Drawing on research conducted in a German coal-mining area, the article shows how the risk of regional economic decline and the risk of global climate change are pitted against each other. The article explores this ‘politics of scaling’ that lead to a reconfiguration of the coal riskscape, including a tentative step towards decarbonising German energy production.

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