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Handbook of green economics / edited by Sevil Acar, Erinç Yeldan.
Lippincott Library HC79.E5 H36 2019
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Environmental economics.
- Sustainable development.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 189 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Elsevier Academic Press, [2019]
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Greening the national accounts: basic concepts and a case study of historical environmental accounting for Sweden p. 1 / Magnus Lindmark
- From the silent spring to environmentally adjusted welfare measures p. 2
- Integrated environmental and economic accounting p. 4
- Historical environmental accounting based on SEEA approaches p. 5
- Depletion costs p. 7
- Expenditures for environmental protection and resource management p. 8
- Reconstructing historical environmental goods and services sector accounts for Sweden p. 9
- Results of ongoing estimates p. 14
- Chapter 2 How to handle natural capital within the context of the green economy? p. 19 / Cristián Ducoing
- Previous research p. 20
- Current measures including natural capital p. 22
- Natural wealth and green accounting p. 22
- Genuine savings p. 23
- Natural capital as the basis of the green economy p. 24
- Could natural capital be replaced? p. 27
- Conclusions and policy lessons p. 28
- Chapter 3 Long waves and the sustainability transition p. 31 / Mark Swilling
- Rethinking the polycrisis from a long-wave perspective p. 33
- Sociometabolic transitions p. 35
- Technoeconomic surges of development p. 37
- Sociotechnical transitions p. 40
- Global development cycles p. 42
- Toward a synthesis p. 44
- Chapter 4 Greening of industry in a resource- and environment-constrained world p. 53 / Izzet Ari and Riza Fikret Yikmaz
- Conceptual framework p. 54
- Sustainable consumption and production p. 55
- Circular economy p. 55
- Greening industries p. 56
- Greening industries and Agenda 2030 p. 58
- Chapter 5 Smart cities as drivers of a green economy p. 69 / Osman Balaban
- Introduction: the double crisis p. 69
- The green economy: evolution, scope, and controversies of the concept p. 71
- Green economy transition: application of the concept p. 73
- Cities and the green economy transition p. 78
- Why cities? p. 78
- The urban transition: smart cities as drivers of a green economy p. 78
- Urban land use p. 80
- Urban buildings p. 83
- Urban transport p. 84
- Urban waste p. 86
- Websites & online references p. 92
- Chapter 6 Environmental justice, climate justice, and the green economy p. 93 / Begüm Özkaynak
- Environmental justice: origins and evolution p. 95
- Framing environmental justice p. 97
- Dimensions of justice p. 98
- Subjects of justice p. 98
- Moral principles of justice p. 99
- Major issues of debate and challenges for a green economy p. 100
- Rights, responsibilities, and liabilities p. 101
- Compensation and rectification p. 103
- Risk perceptions and the precautionary principle p. 104
- Temporal and spatial scales p. 106
- Insights from the environmental and climate justice movements p. 107
- Chapter 7 Balancing climate injustice: a proposal for global carbon tax p. 117 / Rohit Azad and Shouvik Chakraborty
- Carbon emissions and current strategies p. 120
- Our proposal p. 123
- Chapter 8 Riders on the storm: how hard did Robert Gordon's environmental headwind blow in the past? p. 135 / Magnus Lindmark and Sevil Acar
- Background and summary of the relevant literature p. 136
- On well-being p. 136
- On valuation of environmental damages p. 138
- Data and methodological issues p. 141
- Historical development of emissions p. 143
- Development of the environmentally adjusted net national product p. 145
- Chapter 9 Economic instruments of greening p. 153 / A. Erinç Yeldan
- Theorizing pollution abatement p. 154
- Policies toward pricing carbon p. 156
- Carbon taxation p. 157
- Emission trading systems p. 157
- Regulations toward environmentally friendly economics p. 159
- Renewables p. 159
- Other instruments p. 160
- Overall assessments and concluding comments p. 160
- Chapter 10 Financing the green economy p. 163 / Burcu Ünüvar
- Green economy to build green finance p. 163
- Greening the system via green finance p. 163
- Who are the green actors? p. 166
- Why should investors worry about climate risks? p. 167
- Pressure over the budget p. 167
- Higher health-related spending p. 167
- Disruption in private sector capital spending p. 168
- Risks to price stability p. 168
- Volatile capital flows p. 168
- Pressure over the growth performance p. 168
- Environmental commodities p. 168
- Green financial instruments p. 171
- Green bonds p. 171
- Some advantages of green bonds p. 171
- Headline figures from the green bond market p. 172
- Green bonds principles p. 172
- Green loans p. 173
- Green loans principles p. 174
- Green sukuk p. 174
- Catastrophe bonds (cat bonds) p. 175
- Climate bonds p. 175
- Do the climate risks affect the cost of capital? p. 175
- Can green finance fight high cost of capital? p. 178
- Challenges and path ahead to unlock the green potential p. 179.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9780128166352
- 0128166355
- OCLC:
- 1077789786
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