The Rise of Green Economies

A Paradigm for the Developing World?

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Alexander Carius (Hg.), Dennis Taenzler (Hg.), Elsa Semmling (Hg.), The Rise of Green Economies (2016), oekom verlag, München, ISBN: 9783865815996

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Descripción / Abstract

The need to achieve a green economy has recently gained more and more attention. International organisations, governments and representatives from civil society and the private sector have put forward suggestions for a successful transition to a green and low-carbon economy. Around the world, a patchwork of local, regional and national green economy strategies has developed. This is also due to the UN Conference on Sustainable Development in 2012, »Rio+20«, which built up momentum in the discourse surrounding transition to a green economy. The outcome encourages countries to build a common understanding of how economic policy can commit to sustainable development and eradication of poverty. With conceptual reflections on the status of the green economy discourse and with insights from numerous country case studies, this book aims at offering some guidance on this important area for global environmental and development governance.

Índice

  • The Rise of the Green Economies
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface by Achim Steiner (UN Under-Secretary-General, UNEP Executive Director)
  • Part 1: Towards a green economy
  • Strategies for Implementing a Green Economy in Rapidly Emerging and Developing Countries by Steven Stone (UNEP) 1
  • The Inclusiveness of Green and Low-Carbon Development by Sunita Narain (CSE)
  • Building a Low-Carbon Society – Learning from the Past by Prof. Dirk Messner (DIE/WBGU)
  • Jobs and the Green Economy by Michael Renner (Worldwatch Institute)
  • Enabling a Green Economy by Mark Halle (IISD)
  • Who Controls the Green Economy? – Some Critical Questions by Prof. Ulrich Brand (University of Vienna)
  • Part 2: Emerging economies, rapidly growing countries and the green economy
  • Brazil – Shaping a New Economy: a Brazilian Civil Society Perspective on Central Issues for a Transition, in the Context of Rio+20 by Aron Belinky (Business Administration School of Fundacao Getulio Vargas) and Gustavo Ferroni (Vitae Civilis)
  • Mexico – Mexican Policy and Technology Options on the Road to Green and Low-Carbon Development by Andrés Flores Montalvo (Instituto Nacional de Ecologà­a)
  • China – Piloting the Green Economy by Prof. Qi Ye and Dr. Qin Cai (Tsinghua University)
  • South Korea – Green Leapfrogging: Korea†™s Accelerated Transition Towards Green Growth by Myung-Kyoon Lee, Ph. D., and Jae Eun Ahn (Global Green Growth Institute)
  • Singapore – a Red Dot Towards a Green Economy? by Prof. Euston Quah (Nanyang Technological University); Helena Varkkey, Ph. D. (University of Malaya) and Jun Yi Ong (Universit
  • Green Economy Perspectives for South Africa by Belynda Petrie (OneWorld) and Elsa Semmling (adelphi)
  • Ethiopia – Green Economy in Policy-Making Processes by Prof. Yacob Mulugetta (University College London)
  • Sub-Saharan Africa – Potentials and Barriers for Green(er) Economies by Johanna Klein (CAD) and Stefanie Reiher (GIZ)
  • Kazakhstan – Resources and the Green Economy by Dr. Petra Opitz (DIW econ) and Bulat Yessekin, Ph. D. (Consultant for the Government of Kazakhstan)
  • Russia – Between an Export-Oriented Raw Materials Economy and Green Economy by Prof. Sergey Bobylev (Lomonosov Moscow State University)
  • Green Economy – on the Road to a Policy-Making Paradigm for the 21st Century? by Dennis Tänzler, Alexander Carius and Elsa Semmling (adelphi)
  • About the authors

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