Handbook on green growth / edited by Roger Fouquet.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fouquet, Roger.

Contributor:

Fouquet, Roger, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic development--Environmental aspects.

Economic development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 520 pages)

Place of Publication:

Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Pub., 2019.

Summary:

Economies around the world have arrived at a critical juncture: to continue to grow fuelled by fossil fuels and exacerbate climate change, or to move towards more sustainable, greener, growth. Choosing the latter is shown to help address climate change, as well as present new economic opportunities. This Handbook provides a deeper understanding of the concept of green growth, and highlights key lessons from the experience of green transformations across the world following a decade of ambitious stimulus packages and green reforms. With comprehensive chapters from key researchers in the field drawn from across the globe, the Handbook on Green Growth offers up to date and original analysis of the many facets of the phenomenon of green growth. Is economic growth desirable? When can economic growth and environmental policies work together? What are the key factors that will achieve green growth? What will be the multiple impacts of green growth? And, what have been the experiences of economies that have undertaken a green transformation? This Handbook will be a key resource for students and academics interested in economics, environmental and ecological studies, as well as for those specialising in environmental policy. It will also be a valuable tool for policy makers concerned about the dual objectives of stimulating economic growth and addressing environmental damage.

Contents:

Contents: Introduction Roger Fouquet

Part I. The growth strategy

1. Policies for green growth versus policies for no growth: A matter of timing / Richard G. Lipsey

2. The limits to green growth / Peter A. Victor and Martin Sers

3. Green "agrowth" - the next development stage of rich countries / Jeroen C.J.M. van den Bergh and Stefan Drews

Part II. The potential for green growth and its impacts

4. Path-dependence, innovation and the economics of climate change / Philippe Aghion, Cameron Hepburn, Alex Teytelboym and Dimitri Zenghelis

5. Long-term productivity growth and the environment / Alex Bowen

6. The challenge of decoupling economic expansion and environmentally damaging energy uses: Can energy efficiency actions deliver cleaner economic expansion? / Karen Turner and Antonios Katris

7. Targeted technology strategies for low-carbon economic growth: Linking bottom-up and top-down assessments / Ian Sue Wing and Govinda Timilsina

8. Inclusive labour markets for green growth / Alex Bowen

Part III. The drivers of green growth

9. Growth, structural transformation, and the new global agenda: What this means for China and the world / Ehtisham Ahmad, Isabella Neuweg and Nicholas Stern

10. Climate change policy, innovation and growth / Antoine Dechezleprêtre, Ralf Martin and Samuela Bassi

11. Financing green growth / Gregor Semieniuk and Mariana Mazzucato

12. Green startups and local knowledge bases: Newborn suppliers of energy-related technologies in Italian provinces / Alessandra Colombelli and Francesco Quatraro

13. Addressing the political economy of green industrial policy with economic geography / Maria Carvalho

Part IV. Green transformations

14. The green growth economy as an engine of development: The case of China / John A. Matthews

15. Green growth in South Korea / Jae-Seung Lee

16. Reforming energy policy in India: Assessing the options / Ian Parry, Victor Mylonas and Nate Vernon

17. Green transformations and state bureaucracy in the global south / Markus Lederer, Linda Wallbott and Frauke Urban

18. Economic transformation and green growth for African economies / Russel Bishop and Milan Brahmbhatt

Part V. Beyond green growth

19. Transitioning to smart green growth: Lessons from history / Carlota Perez

20. The invisible hand and the weightless economy / Danny Quah

21. The transition from a fossil-fuel economy to a knowledge economy / Roger Fouquet and Ralph Hippe

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-78811-068-4