Green capital : a new perspective on growth / Christian de Perthuis, and Pierre-André Jouvet ; translated by Michael Westlake.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Perthuis, Christian de, author.

Jouvet, Pierre-André, author.

Standardized Title:

Capital vert. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Environmental economics.

Sustainable development.

Physical Description:

vii, 274 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2015]

Contents:

1 Growth: A Historical Accident? 9

2 The Spaceship Problem: An Optimal Population Size? 18

3 Degrowth: Good Questions, Bad Answers 26

4 Introducing the Environment into the Calculation of Wealth 36

5 "Natural Capital" Revisited 47

6 Hotelling: Beyond the Wall of Scarcity 55

7 Nature Has No Price: How Then Is the Cost of Its Degradation to Be Measured? 67

8 Beyond Hotelling: Natural Capital as a Factor Required for Growth 76

9 Water, the Shepherd, and the Owner: A Choice of Green Growth Models 89

10 How Much Is Your Genome Worth? 99

11 The Enhancement of Biodiversity: Managing Access, Pricing Usage 112

12 Climate Change: The Challenges of Carbon Pricing 122

13 International Climate Negotiations 137

14 The "Energy Transition": Not Enough or Too Much Oil and Gas? 152

15 The Inescapable Question of the Price of Energy 164

16 Nuclear Energy: A Rising-Cost technology 177

17 Growth-Generating Innovations 185

18 Planning or the Market: What Axe the Catalysts? 197

19 European Strategy: Jump Out of the Warm Water! 214.

Notes:

Translated from the French.

Translation of : Le capital vert : une nouvelle perspective de croissance, published in 2013.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780231171403

0231171404

OCLC:

902936966