Green Growth
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Green Growth

Ideology, Political Economy and the Alternatives

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eBook - ePub

Green Growth

Ideology, Political Economy and the Alternatives

About this book

The discourse of 'green growth' has recently gained ground in environmental governance deliberations and policy proposals. It is presented as a fresh and innovative agenda centred on the deployment of engineering sophistication, managerial acumen and market mechanisms to redress the environmental and social derelictions of the existing development model. But the green growth project is deeply inadequate, whether assessed against criteria of social justice or the achievement of sustainable economic life upon a materially finite planet. This volume outlines three main lines of critique. First, it traces the development of the green growth discourse qua ideology. It asks: what explains modern society's investment in it, why has it emerged as a master concept in the contemporary conjuncture, and what social forces does it serve? Second, it unpicks and explains the contradictions within a series of prominent green growth projects. Finally, it weighs up the merits and demerits of alternative strategies and policies, asking the vital question: 'if not green growth, then what?'

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Yes, you can access Green Growth by Gareth Dale, Manu V. Mathai, Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira, Gareth Dale,Manu V. Mathai,Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Economics & Environmental Economics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Zed Books
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9781783604883
eBook ISBN
9781783604906
Edition
1
Topic
Economics
Subtopic
Environmental Economics
Index
Economics

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. About the editors
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Contributors
  8. Introduction
  9. Part I: Contradictions of green growth
  10. 1 Can green growth really work? A reality check that elaborates on the true (socio-)economics of climate change
  11. 2 What is the ‘green’ in ‘green growth’?
  12. 3 The how and for whom of green governmentality
  13. 4 Degrowth and the roots of neoclassical economics
  14. Part II: Case studies
  15. 5 Giving green teeth to the Tiger? A critique of ‘green growth’ in South Korea
  16. 6 Lessons from the EU: why capitalism cannot be rescued from its own contradictions
  17. 7 The green growth trap in Brazil
  18. 8 Green jobs to promote sustainable development: creating a value chain of solid waste recycling in Brazil
  19. 9 Trends of social metabolism and environmental conflict: a comparison between India and Latin America
  20. Part III: Emerging alternatives?
  21. 10 Beyond ‘development’ and ‘growth’: the search for 212 alternatives in India towards a sustainable and equitable world
  22. 11 Reconsidering growth in the greenhouse: the Sustainable Energy Utility (SEU) as a practical strategy for the twenty-first century
  23. 12 Alternatives to green growth? Possibilities and contradictions of self-managed food production
  24. Notes
  25. Index