Green Growth, Smart Growth: A New Approach to Economics, Innovation and the Environment - Couverture rigide

Fücks, Ralf

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1783084731 ISBN 13 : 9781783084739

Editeur : Anthem Press, 2015

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Ralf Fücks has written widely on environmental policy and political economy, and is currently President of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, an influential public policy organization advancing green visions and projects.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Anthem Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1783084731
• ISBN 13: 9781783084739
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 390
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible