Ebook: Green Growth: Managing the Transition to a Sustainable Economy: Learning By Doing in East Asia and Europe

This volume is a practical guide that helps the reader build a quick, evidence-based understanding of green-growth strategies and challenges. Its cogent analysis of real-life case studies enables policy makers and company executives identify successful strategies they can adopt, and pitfalls they can avoid, in drafting and implementing green growth policies. The contributors’ empirical assessment of these studies identifies the structural conditions required for economic growth to be compatible with environmental sustainability and how the transition to a new economic paradigm should be managed. A crucial addition to the debate now beginning in earnest around the world, this volume attempts to understand how we can nurture a new-born model of sustainable growth and help it evolve to maturity.

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Some call it the ‘perfect storm’: a devastating combination of financial collapse and environmental catastrophe. A growing consensus recognises the need to shift economies and social structures towards more sustainable models: the very focus of this book. The rising tide of political interest in combining ‘growth’ with ‘green' is now an explicit item on the agenda of key countries, particularly in East Asia and the European Union, where flagship green-growth strategies are at the heart of its blueprint for competitiveness.

This volume is a practical guide that helps the reader build a quick, evidence-based understanding of green-growth strategies and challenges. Its cogent analysis of real-life case studies enables policy makers and company executives identify successful strategies they can adopt, and pitfalls they can avoid, in drafting and implementing green growth policies. The contributors’ empirical assessment of these studies identifies the structural conditions required for economic growth to be compatible with environmental sustainability and how the transition to a new economic paradigm should be managed. A crucial addition to the debate now beginning in earnest around the world, this volume attempts to understand how we can nurture a new-born model of sustainable growth and help it evolve to maturity.

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Some call it the ‘perfect storm’: a devastating combination of financial collapse and environmental catastrophe. A growing consensus recognises the need to shift economies and social structures towards more sustainable models: the very focus of this book. The rising tide of political interest in combining ‘growth’ with ‘green' is now an explicit item on the agenda of key countries, particularly in East Asia and the European Union, where flagship green-growth strategies are at the heart of its blueprint for competitiveness.

This volume is a practical guide that helps the reader build a quick, evidence-based understanding of green-growth strategies and challenges. Its cogent analysis of real-life case studies enables policy makers and company executives identify successful strategies they can adopt, and pitfalls they can avoid, in drafting and implementing green growth policies. The contributors’ empirical assessment of these studies identifies the structural conditions required for economic growth to be compatible with environmental sustainability and how the transition to a new economic paradigm should be managed. A crucial addition to the debate now beginning in earnest around the world, this volume attempts to understand how we can nurture a new-born model of sustainable growth and help it evolve to maturity.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxx
Green Growth: Managing the Transition to Sustainable Economies....Pages 1-25
A Critical Review and New Policy Framework of Low-Carbon, Green-Growth Strategy of Korea....Pages 27-42
Greening the Korean Stacks Through Lessons from the EU Emissions Trading System: A Socio-legal Analysis....Pages 43-64
Sustainability Science Integrated Policies Promoting Interaction-Based Building Design Concept as a Climate Change Adaptation Strategy for Singapore and Beyond....Pages 65-85
Analysis of Technical Efficiency and Productivity Using Meta-frontier-Manufacturing Industries in Korea and China....Pages 87-108
Green Growth Index and Policy Feedback....Pages 109-127
Environmental Impacts of Korea-Europe Automotive Supply Chains; Moving Towards a More Sustainable Model....Pages 129-145
Strategic Responses of Multinational Corporations to Environmental Protection in Emerging Economies: The Case of the Petroleum and Chemical Sectors in Latin America and the Greater China Region....Pages 147-171
Environmental Innovations and Financial Performance of Japanese Automotive and Electronics Companies....Pages 173-190
Achieving Greener Growth: A Business Perspective for Proactive Commitment....Pages 191-212
Participatory Research on Green Productivity of Silk and Cotton Woven Products in the Northeast Region of Thailand....Pages 213-228
Attitudes Towards Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy in European Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises....Pages 229-243
The Diffusion of Green Technological Innovations and Stimulus: The Case of LUBEI Eco-Industrial Park in China....Pages 245-263
The Practice of Innovative Energy Systems Diffusion in Neighbourhood Renovation Projects: A Comparison of 11 Cases in the Netherlands....Pages 265-286
Why Consumers Buy Green....Pages 287-308
Conclusion: The Green Way Forward?....Pages 309-329
Back Matter....Pages 331-342