Bringing together leading scholars of environmental policy and political economy, the book assess the impact and viability of green growth and outlines the alternatives.

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Contributors
• Introduction - Gareth Dale, Manu V. Mathai and Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira
• Part I: Contradictions of green growth
• 1 Can green growth really work? A reality check that elaborates on the true (socio-)economics of climate change - Ulrich Hoffmann
• 2 What is the ‘green’ in ‘green growth’? - Larry Lohmann
• 3 The how and for whom of green governmentality - Adrian Parr
• 4 Degrowth and the roots of neoclassical economics - James Meadway
• Part II: Case studies
• 5 Giving green teeth to the Tiger? A critique of ‘green growth'in South Korea - Bettina Bluemling and Sun-Jin Yun
• 6 Lessons from the EU: why capitalism cannot be rescued from its own contradictions - Birgit Mahnkopf
• 7 The green growth trap in Brazil - Ricardo Abramovay
• 8 Green jobs to promote sustainable development: creating a value chain of solid waste recycling in Brazil - Anne Posthuma and Paulo Sergio Muçouçah
• 9 Trends of social metabolism and environmental conflict: a comparison between India and Latin America - Joan Martinez-Alier, Federico Demaria, Leah Temper and Mariana Walter
• Part III: Emerging alternatives?
• 10 Beyond ‘development’ and ‘growth’: the search for alternatives in India towards a sustainable and equitable World - Ashish Kothari
• 11 Reconsidering growth in the greenhouse: the Sustainable Energy Utility (SEU) as a practical strategy for the twenty-first century - Job Taminiau and John Byrne
• 12 Alternatives to green growth? Possibilities and contradictions of self-managed food production - Steffen Böhm, Maria Ceci Araujo Misoczky, David Watson and Sanjay Lanka