Ralf Fücks

Green Growth, Smart Growth (eBook, ePUB)

A New Approach to Economics, Innovation and the Environment
Übersetzer: Harland, Rachel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book is not another warning about the end of the world. It is neither a penitential sermon on environmentalism, nor an appeal to frugality and self-restraint. Far from having exhausted the era of technological, social and democratic progress, we are on the brink of a new stage of industrial modernity: a shift from a fossil-based to a postfossil economy, from the ruthless exploitation of nature toward growth in tandem with it. Decoupling economic growth from environmental consumption is an ambitious goal, but also an achievable one.

Drawing on the German policy experience of tackling climate change, 'Green Growth, Smart Growth' outlines a positive way forward in this great transformation and it does so in the conviction that the danger industrial civilization poses to our future can be overcome using the means of modernity: science, technology and democracy. It is by no means certain that we will win the race against climate change and dwindling resources. That will require nothing less than a great leap forward-a green industrial revolution.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 390
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783084746
• Artikelnr.: 43082718

Autorenporträt

Ralf Fücks, with a Foreword by Anthony Giddens

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Anthony Giddens
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Decline of Modernity or the Beginning of a New Chapter?
1. A Changing World
2. The Limits to Growth - The Growth of Limits
3. The Malaise of Modernity
4. The Green Industrial Revolution
5. Bioeconomics
6. The Future of Agriculture
7. An Energy Revolution
8. The Postfossil City
9. Ecocapitalism
10. The Politics of Environmental Transformation
Notes
Bibliography
About the Author
Index