Ebook: Green growth: ideology, political economy and the alternatives

Bringing together leading scholars of environmental policy and political economy, the book assess the impact and viability of green growth and outlines the alternatives.;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 elaborate 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 who 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 / Bettian 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 conflicts : a comparison between India and Latin America / Joan Martinez-Alier, Federico Demaria, Leah Temper and Mariana Walter