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ItemNo Preview AvailablePlanetary Health: Capitalism, Ecology and Eco-SocialismBaer, HA ; Singer, M (Informa UK Limited, 2023-01-01)
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ItemHow Environmentally Sustainable Is the Internationalisation of Higher Education? A View from AustraliaBaer, HA ; Bjørkdahl, K ; Franco Duharte, AS (Springer Nature Singapore, 2022-01-01)Abstract In a world of increasing awareness of the many drivers of anthropogenic climate change, all of which fall under the larger rubric of global capitalism with its emphasis on profit-making, economic growth, and a strong dependence on fossil fuels, many universities, particularly in developed societies, have proclaimed a staunch commitment to the notion of environmental sustainability. Conversely, the growing emphasis on internationalisation of higher education, particularly in Australia, entails a considerable amount of air travel on the part of university staff, particularly academics but also support staff, and overseas students and occasionally domestic students. Australia is a generally highly affluent country which is situated in the driest inhabited continent and increasingly finds itself functioning as a “canary the coal mine” with respect to the ravages of anthropogenic climate change. Ironically, climate scientists and other observers often refer to various regions, such as the Arctic, low-lying islands, the Andes, and Bangladesh, inhabited by indigenous and peasant peoples as the canaries in the coalmines when it comes to the adverse impacts of anthropogenic climate change. It is often said that those people who have contributed the least to greenhouse gas emissions are the ones suffering the most from climate change, a more than accurate observation.
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ItemLess Is More: How Degrowth Will Save The WorldBaer, HA (WILEY, 2021-08)
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ItemGrappling with flying as a driver to climate change: Strategies for critical scholars seeking to contribute to a socio-ecological revolutionBaer, HA (WILEY, 2018-12)Airplane flights are one of the fastest, perhaps even the fastest, growing source of greenhouse gas emissions, even though there is much discussion of mitigating emissions to stave off a global climate change disaster. While business people, politicians, celebrities, and highly affluent people appear to be the most frequent flyers, the demands of an increasingly corporatised university sector have placed much pressure on academics, including anthropologists, to fly to attend conferences and meetings and conduct research. I seek to grapple with the dilemmas involved in the academic use of aircraft, particularly on the part of those academics who accept the gravity of anthropogenic climate change spurred on by the demands of global capitalism, and propose some strategies for mitigating climate change on the part of anthropologists in particular as part of the larger project of creating a socio‐ecological revolution that will contribute to a safe climate.
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ItemHealth Anthropology in AustraliaLong, D ; Baer, H (WILEY, 2018-09)
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ItemAnthropocene or Capitalocene? Nature, History, and the Crisis of CapitalismBaer, H (SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS, 2017-06)
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ItemNo Preview AvailableThe larger struggle: mitigating capitalism: a contribution to GTI ForumBaer, H ( 2019)The climate movement both at the international level and within specific countries is quite disparate, meriting a distinction between climate activists per se and climate justice activists
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ItemClimate Change Mitigation, Environmental Sustainability, and Social Parity: Green Capitalism or an Alternative World System?Baer, HA (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2016-02)
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ItemToward democratic eco-socialism as the next world systemBAER, H (The Next System Project, 2016-04-30)