The Green Economy in the Global South
The idea and practice of the green economy is gaining momentum, coinciding with financial instability, and continued economic woe in the Global North, but generally more positive economic circumstances in the Global South. Green economic initiatives in the Global South are multiplying, and include carbon payments, ecotourism, community-based wildlife management, sustainability certification initiatives, and offsets by mining companies exploiting new resources. These initiatives are reallocating resources, redefining inequalities, and redistributing the fortune and misfortune of participants of the green economy and those excluded from it. They have also led to resistance locally, nationally, and transnationally and to demands for alternatives to market-driven instruments and solutions, which are generally gaining strength and coherence. The articles included in this volume bring together a multi-disciplinary team of scholars from North and South to provide nuanced analyses of green economy experiences in the Global South analysing the opportunities they provide, but also the redistributions they entail and the kinds of resistances they face. The ultimate aim of the collection is to provide a critical, but balanced, overview of the emerging green economy in the Global South and point the way to possible adjustments, alternatives or radical resistance, depending on different situations. This book was originally published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.
Stefano Ponte is a Professor in the Department of Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School. His research focuses on global value chains, the political economy of sustainability initiatives, and transnational environmental governance.
Daniel Brockington is Director of the Sheffield Institute for International Development at the University of Sheffield where he holds a research chair. His research covers issues of conservation and environmental policy, celebrity advocacy, and livelihood change.
Thirdworlds
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THIRDWORLDS will focus on the political economy, development and cultures of those parts of the world that have experienced the most political, social, and economic upheaval, and which have faced the greatest challenges of the postcolonial world under globalisation: poverty, displacement and diaspora, environmental degradation, human and civil rights abuses, war, hunger, and disease.
THIRDWORLDS serves as a signifier of oppositional emerging economies and cultures ranging from Africa, Asia, Latin America, Middle East, and even those Souths within a larger perceived North, such as the U.S. South and Mediterranean Europe. The study of these otherwise disparate and discontinuous areas, known collectively as the Global South, demonstrates that as globalisation pervades the planet, the south, as a synonym for subalterity, also transcends geographical and ideological frontiers.
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The Green Economy in the Global South
The idea and practice of the green economy is gaining momentum, coinciding with financial instability, and continued economic woe in the Global North, but generally more positive economic circumstances in the Global South. Green economic initiatives in the Global South are multiplying, and include carbon payments, ecotourism, community-based wildlife management, sustainability certification initiatives, and offsets by mining companies exploiting new resources. These initiatives are reallocating resources, redefining inequalities, and redistributing the fortune and misfortune of participants of the green economy and those excluded from it. They have also led to resistance locally, nationally, and transnationally and to demands for alternatives to market-driven instruments and solutions, which are generally gaining strength and coherence. The articles included in this volume bring together a multi-disciplinary team of scholars from North and South to provide nuanced analyses of green economy experiences in the Global South analysing the opportunities they provide, but also the redistributions they entail and the kinds of resistances they face. The ultimate aim of the collection is to provide a critical, but balanced, overview of the emerging green economy in the Global South and point the way to possible adjustments, alternatives or radical resistance, depending on different situations. This book was originally published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.
Stefano Ponte is a Professor in the Department of Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School. His research focuses on global value chains, the political economy of sustainability initiatives, and transnational environmental governance.
Daniel Brockington is Director of the Sheffield Institute for International Development at the University of Sheffield where he holds a research chair. His research covers issues of conservation and environmental policy, celebrity advocacy, and livelihood change.
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