About the Book: Green Growth: Ideology, Political Economy and the Alternatives
The discourse of 'green growth has recently gained ground in environmental
governance deliberations and policy proposals. It is presented as a fresh and
innovative agenda centred on the deployment of engineering sophistication,
managerial acumen and market mechanisms to redress the environmental and social
derelictions of the existing development model. But the green growth project is
deeply inadequate, whether assessed against criteria of social justice or the
achievement of sustainable economic life upon a materially finite planet. This
volume outlines three main lines of critique. First, it traces the development
of the green growth discourse quaideology. It asks: