Dale Gareth - Green growth: ideology, political economy and the alternatives

The Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN) is delighted to be a part of this publication, which is expected to produce long-term gains by enhancing scientific and policy capacity on green growth in the context of sustainable development.

Linda Anne Stevenson, Division Head, Communication and Scientific Affairs, APN

About the editors

Gareth Dale is a political economist at Brunel University. He gained his doctorate in government at Manchester University. His expertise is in political and economic thought, with a focus on growth/degrowth.

Manu V. Mathai is assistant professor in the School of Development at Azim Premji University. He received his PhD in energy and environmental policy from the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy at the University of Delaware. He researches and teaches about the intersection of energy, environment and human development.

Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira teaches at the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV-EAESP and FGV-EBAPE) as well as the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (COPPEAD-UFRJ) and Fudan University, Shanghai. He is also a visiting research fellow at United Nations University (UNU-IIGH), Kuala Lumpur. He was assistant director and senior research fellow at the United Nations University (UNU-IAS) from August 2009 to 2015. His academic interests are in the political economy of sustainable development, particularly in patterns of environmental governance and in the implementation of global policies at the local level.

GREEN GROWTH

IDEOLOGY, POLITICAL ECONOMY AND THE ALTERNATIVES

Edited by
GARETH DALE, MANU V. MATHAI and JOSE A. PUPPIM DE OLIVEIRA

Green Growth: Ideology, political economy and the alternatives was first published in 2016 by Zed Books Ltd,
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CONTENTS

G ARETH D ALE , M ANU V. M ATHAI and J OSE A. P UPPIM DE O LIVEIRA

U LRICH H OFFMANN

LARRY LOHMANN

A DRIAN P ARR

J AMES M EADWAY

B ETTINA B LUEMLING and SUN-JIN YUN

6Lessons from the EU: why capitalism cannot be rescued from its own contradictions

B IRGIT M AHNKOPF

R ICARDO A BRAMOVAY

A NNE P OSTHUMA and P AULO S ERGIO M UOUAH

J OAN M ARTINEZ -A LIER , F EDERICO D EMARIA , L EAH T EMPER and M ARIANA W ALTER

A SHISH K OTHARI

J OB T AMINIAU and J OHN B YRNE

S TEFFEN B HM , M ARIA C ECI A RAUJO M ISOCZKY , D AVID W ATSON and S ANJAY L ANKA

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

We would like to express our gratitude to many organizations and individuals that made this book possible. We thank the Asia Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN) for the support we received from the Scientific Capacity Building/Enhancement for Sustainable Development in Developing Countries (CAPaBLE) programme through the project Training Workshop and Edited Volume on Green Growth: Political Ideology, Political Economy and Policy Alternatives (Reference CBA2014-09NSY-Mathai), particularly Akio Takemoto and Hiroshi Tsujihara, former and current director of APN, as well as Linda Stevenson and Christmas de Guzman.

We are grateful for the support we received from the United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Studies of Sustainability for organizing the Green Growth Symposium in July 2014, especially to Govindan Parayil and Kazuhiko Takemoto, former and current director of UNU-IAS, as well as Takei Chiharu, Nakano Yuki, Fueta Natsuko, Sayo Yoshitake, Yukie Sawada, Shio Terui and the students Xue Ye (Susie), Richard Rastall and Alexis Nakandakari.

We are grateful to the British Academy, which funded Gareth Dales attendance at the Tokyo symposium (Mid-Career Fellowship, 201314), to the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation for a generous grant that enabled UK-based young researchers to attend, and to the 20 young researchers from around the world who helped make the symposium a success.

Finally, we are appreciative of Kim Walker and her team at Zed Books who have smoothly steered the volume towards completion.

CONTRIBUTORS

Ricardo Abramovay is professor of economics at the University of So Paulo and author of Beyond the Green Economy (Routledge, 2016).

Bettina Bluemling lectures at the University of Glasgow, and is research fellow at the Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies, Germany.

Steffen Bhm teaches at the Environment and Sustainability Institute at the University of Exeter. His research focuses on political economies and ecologies of the foodenergywatercarbonenvironment nexus. His most recent book is Ecocultures: Blueprints for Sustainable Communities (Routledge, 2014).

John Byrne is the director and distinguished professor of energy and climate policy at the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy (CEEP), co-founder of the Foundation for Renewable Energy and Environment, and the architect of the Sustainable Energy Utility (SEU) model.

Federico Demaria is a researcher at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Autonomous University of Barcelona (IEST, UAB) with an affiliation at the CSSP JNU (India). His research deals with waste-related environmental conflicts and accumulation by contamination. He co-edited Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New Era (Routledge, 2014).

Ulrich Hoffmann is chief economist, sustainability issues at the Research Institute on Organic Agriculture (FIBL), and former editor-in-chief of the UNCTAD Trade and Environment Review , UNCTAD Secretariat.

Ashish Kothari is a founder of the Indian environmental group Kalpavriksh. Active in movements relating to development, conservation, and natural resource rights, he is the author or editor of over 30 books, including (with Aseem Shrivastava) Churning the Earth: The Making of Global India .

Sanjay V. Lanka works with coffee cooperatives of indigenous farmers with a focus on fairtrade and biodiversity with regards to the delivery of sustainable livelihoods, using accounts from the margins. Hes finalizing his PhD at the University of Essex.

Larry Lohmann works for Corner House.

Birgit Mahnkopf is professor of European politics at the Berlin School of Economics and Law. She received her PhD in sociology and her post-doctoral habilitation at the Freie Universitt Berlin. She has published 12 books and over 130 articles and book chapters.

Joan Martinez-Alier is professor emeritus at UAB (Spain) and FLACSO, Quito, Ecuador. He is the author of Ecological Economics: Energy, Environment and Society and The Environmentalism of the Poor: A Study of Ecological Conflicts and Valuation .