A Good Life on a Finite Earth: The Political Economy of Green Growth

A Good Life on a Finite Earth: The Political Economy of Green Growth – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780190605810,0190605812,9780190605834, 0190605839

Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0190605839
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 99780190605834
• Author: Daniel J. Fiorino

The potential conflict among economic and ecological goals has formed the central fault line of environmental politics in the United States and most other countries since the 1970s. The accepted view is that efforts to protect the environment will detract from economic growth, jobs, and global competitiveness. Conversely, much advocacy on behalf of the environment focuses on the need to control growth and avoid its more damaging effects. This offers a stark choice between prosperity and growth, on the one hand, and ecological degradation on the other. Stopping or reversing growth in most countries is unrealistic, economically risky, politically difficult, and is likely to harm the very groups that should be protected. At the same time, a strategy of unguided “growth above all” would cause ecological catastrophe.

Table contents:

Chapter 1: Two Worlds Colliding
Chapter 2: What Is Green Growth?
Chapter 3: Ecology and Economy: Partners or Antagonists?
Chapter 4: Ecological Governance
Chapter 5: Inequality and Green Growth
Chapter 6: The Green Growth Policy Agenda
Chapter 7: Prospects and Politics in the US
Chapter 8: Can Change Happen?

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