Ecology, low-carbon society and politics

Lukšič, Andrej (author)

The developmental concept of a "Low-Carbon Society" (LCS) is an operational concept, on which the governments of developed countries are building their way out of environmental and technological-developmental quandaries. The concept itself has not been subject to any significant reflection and criticism in expert circles and has quietly taken up residence in public policy. The central role of technological development as a precondition for new momentum of the economic cycle needs to be problematized. This concept also clearly establishes a hierarchy among different sciences and technologies, and reserves only a secondary role for social sciences, a role in which their production of knowledge must be embedded into the reproduction of the existing political-economic order.

• Language: English
• Work type: Not categorized
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Year: 2014
• Number of pages: Str. 772-788, 995
• Numbering: Letn. 51, št. 5
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-85340
• UDC: 001.895:574
• ISSN on article: 0040-3598
• COBISS.SI-ID: 32984157
• Publication date in RUL: 20.09.2016

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Teorija in praksa : revija za družbena vprašanja
• Shortened title: Teor. praksa
• Publisher: Fakulteta za družbene vede
• ISSN: 0040-3598
• COBISS.SI-ID: 763652

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian

Abstract

Razvojni koncept "nizkoogljične družbe" (NOD) predstavlja operativni koncept, na katerem vlade držav v razvitem delu sveta gradijo izhod iz okoljskih in tehnološkorazvojnih zagat. Koncept sam ni doživel neke pomembne refleksije in kritike v strokovnih krogih in se je tiho naselil v javne politike. Temeljno vlogo tehnološkega razvoja kot nujnega pogoja za nadaljnji ekonomski in družbeni razvoj je treba problematizirati. Ta koncept vzpostavlja tudi novo hierarhijo med različnimi znanostmi in tehnologijami, družboslovju pa prihrani sekundarno vlogo - vlogo, v kateri mora biti produkcija vedenja funkcijsko vpeta v reprodukcijo obstoječe politično-ekonomske ureditve.