From red to green? : how the financial credit crunch could bankrupt the environment / by Paul Donovan and Julie Hudson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Donovan, Paul, author.

Hudson, Julie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental economics.

Financial crises.

Credit.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, [2013].

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Written by an economist and an investment professional, this book addresses the twin crises that the world is facing in the form of a simultaneous financial and environmental credit crunch. Financially, consumers are less able to consume now, and pay later. Environmentally, we may have already reached our credit limit and the bill for past financial and environmental consumption is falling due. This book asks whether financial crunch-induced changes in consumer behaviour will be enough to avoid, or reduce, the environmental crunch many believe is just round the corner. Donovan and Hudson combine their respective economic and environmental perspectives to address this key question, reviewing this 'tale of two crunches' from the perspective of different economic sectors. The answer to the conundrum this book poses may lie in the only unlimited resource on the planet - human ingenuity.Whether the financial credit crunch constrains consumers in a way that will be environmentally supportive, naturally slowing the consumption of finite resources, or hinders any effective resolution of the environmental credit crunch is of crucial importance. Policy responses to the financial crisis are likely to be constrained by the political need to support the economic status quo, and when combined with a global reduction in available investment capital there are serious challenges ahead if the economic and environmental damage of the environmental credit crunch is to be minimised.

Contents:

From Red to Green?: How the Financial Credit Crunch Could Bankrupt the Environment; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures, Tables and Boxes; Acknowledgements; Preface: From Red to Green? A Tale of Two Credit Crunches; List of Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Food in the Face of the Two Credit Crunches; Chapter 2 Water in the Wake of the Two Credit Crunches; Chapter 3 Powering Down: Energy and the Twin Credit Crunches; Chapter 4 Infrastructure: Building the Future in Credit-constrained Times; Chapter 5 Housing: The Canary in the Coal Mine; Chapter 6 Consumer Durables: Shop Till You Drop

Chapter 7 Fast-moving Consumer Goods: 'Waste Not Want Not'Chapter 8 The Twin Credit Crunches and Human Health; Chapter 9 Education, Work and Leisure in the Face of Two Credit Crunches; Conclusion Change: The Consumer and the Twin Credit Crunches; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-52913-6

1-84977-686-5

1-283-96464-3

1-136-52914-4

9781849776868

OCLC:

829461720