Unpacking the Green Economy concept: A quantitative analysis of 140 definitions

A Merino-Saum, J Clement, R Wyss… - Journal of cleaner …, 2020 - Elsevier
Over the past ten years, the Green Economy (GE) concept has gained momentum in both
academia and policy-making arenas, leading to international programs in diverse sectors …

[HTML][HTML] When two movements collide: Learning from labour and environmental struggles for future Just Transitions

B Wilgosh, AH Sorman, I Barcena - Futures, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The term 'Just Transition'(JT) emerged from the 1970s North American labour
movement to become a campaign for a planned energy transition that includes justice and …

Sustainable development, poverty eradication and reducing inequalities

J Roy, P Tscharket, H Waisman, S Abdul Halim… - 2018 - centaur.reading.ac.uk
This chapter takes sustainable development as the starting point and focus for analysis. It
considers the broad and multifaceted bi-directional interplay between sustainable …

[BUCH][B] The age of sustainability: Just transitions in a complex world

M Swilling - 2020 - library.oapen.org
With transitions to more sustainable ways of living already underway, this book examines
how we understand the underlying dynamics of the transitions that are unfolding. Without …

Developmental states and sustainability transitions: prospects of a just transition in South Africa

M Swilling, J Musango, J Wakeford - Journal of Environmental …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Since the onset of the global economic crisis in 2007/2008 two key trends have made it
necessary to reconceptualize the relationship between development and sustainability: the …

[HTML][HTML] Spatial processes and politics of renewable energy transition: Land, zones and frictions in South Africa

C McEwan - Political geography, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper seeks to make a contribution to on-going debates about how to conceptualise the
spatial processes of renewable energy transition. It makes a case for understanding …

Political ecology, variegated green economies, and the foreclosure of alternative sustainabilities

CJ Cavanagh, TA Benjaminsen - Journal of Political …, 2017 - journals.uair.arizona.edu
Over the past two decades, political ecologists have provided extensive critiques of the
privatization, commodification, and marketization of nature, including of the new forms of …

Four discourses of the green economy in the global South

C Death - The Green Economy in the Global South, 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
This article identifies four contrasting global discourses of the green economy in
contemporary usage: green resilience, green growth, green transformation and green …

Introduction and framing

M Grubb, C Okereke, J Arima, V Bosetti… - IPCC, 2022: Climate …, 2022 - iris.unibocconi.it
Global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions continued to rise to 2019: the aggregate
reductions implied by current Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to 2030 would …

Green growth or ecological commodification: debating the green economy in the global south

E Brown, J Cloke, D Gent, PH Johnson… - … Annaler: Series B …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
This article examines recent institutional thinking on the green economy and the implications
of official understandings and structuration of a green economy for the global South …