Resource geographies 1 Making carbon economies, old and new

• Published in: Progress in human geography Vol. 35; no. 6; pp. 820 - 834
• Main Author: Bridge, Gavin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.12.2011; Sage Publications Ltd
• Subjects: Carbon; Carbon economy; Carbon emissions; Carbon sequestration; Climate change; Commodities; Consumption; Core making; Economics; Emissions; Emissions control; Environmental economics; Extraction; Fossil fuels; Fuel consumption; Fuels; Geodemographics; Geography; Governance; Greenhouse gases; Harnesses; Human geography; Hydrocarbons; Market; Markets; Natural Resources; Political Economy; Political geography; Progress reports; Reductionism; Renewable resources; Scarcity; Series (mathematics); Social behavior; Social life & customs; Territory; Upstream; resources; oil; enclosure; carbon economy; territory

This progress report is the first in a series of three on resource geographies, and reflects a renewed interest within human geography and cognate disciplines in classic resource questions of scarcity, access and governance. It focuses on carbon, an element which is fast becoming a common denominato...