Green Economy – the Next Oxymoron? No Lessons Learned from Failures of Implementing Sustainable Development
By Ulrich Brand. 2012
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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
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- Blue Economy and Competing Discourses in International Oceans Governance (2015, background): “The term “green economy” has already ascended in global environmental governance (Brand, 2012; Onesti, 2012).”
- The urban informal economy, local inclusion and achieving a global green transformation (2016, background): “The green economy is marketed as advantageous because it places the market economy at the centre of the solution, with green investments creating sustainable economic opportunities (Brand, 2012; Brockington, 2012).”
- Grabbing “Green”: Markets, Environmental Governance and the Materialization of Natural Capital (2013, background): “” While the phrase has been in circulation for decades (Jacobs 1991), “The Green Economy” has risen to institutional prominence over the last four years and is positioned to supersede sustainable development as the hegemonic discourse in global environmental governance (Brand 2012).”
- The New ‘Passive Revolution’ of the Green Economy and Growth Discourse: Maintaining the ‘Sustainable Development’ of Neoliberal Capitalism (2015, background): “Brand is also critical about the green economy discourse and its role in perpetuating capitalist society–nature relations (Brand 2011; Brand and Wissen 2012).”
- Nature-based tourism and neoliberalism: concealing contradictions (2015, background): “With such powerful supporters, the notion of a green economy is beginning to supplant the ‘sustainable development’ approach promoted since the Brundtland Report in 1987 (Brand, 2011; Wanner, 2014).”
- Crisis and continuity of capitalist society-nature relationships: The imperial mode of living and the limits to environmental governance (2013, background): “However, against the background of the current crisis, in recent years, several studies were published that suggest that the economic and ecological crisis can be overcome by fostering a green economy (overview and critique in Brand, 2012).”
- Integrating the green economy, circular economy and bioeconomy in a strategic sustainability framework (2021, background): “…of GE include its strong focus on technological and market-based solutions for green growth, which are considered insufficient to address current sustainability issues, and are sometimes identified as co-causes of the problems (Borel-Saladin and Turok, 2013; Brand, 2012; Luederitz et al., 2017).”
- The science, policy and practice of nature-based solutions: An interdisciplinary perspective. (2017, background): “In that sense, NBS can become a major contributor to the wider concept of a ‘green economy’, which is also critically discussed regarding its sustainability perspective (Brand, 2012; Gasparatos and Willis, 2015).”
- Varieties of green capitalism: economy and environment in the wake of the global financial crisis (2014, background): “…Deal’, ‘Green Stimulus’, and ‘Green Economy’.1 The types of proposals discussed here have been criticised as ‘globalisation lite’ (Salleh 2010), ‘oxymoronic’ (Brand 2012), a ‘wolf in sheep’s clothing’ (Lander 2011), and as aimed principally at saving capitalism rather than the environment (Gill…”