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Green capital: a new perspective on growth

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York Columbia University Press 2015Description: vii, 274 pISBN:
  • 9780231171403
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 333.7 P3G7
Summary: Green Capital Google Preview ShareShare on FacebookTweet about this on TwitterShare on Google+Share on LinkedInEmail this to someone Pub Date: October 2015 ISBN: 9780231171403 288 Pages Format: Hardcover List Price: $35.00£26.00 Add to Cart Pub Date: October 2015 ISBN: 9780231540360 288 Pages Format: E-book List Price: $34.99£26.00 Get the E-Book Green Capital A New Perspective on Growth Christian de Perthuis and Pierre-André Jouvet. Translated by Michael Westlake Columbia University Press Main Reviews Contents Excerpt Links Awards Many believe economic growth is incompatible with ecological preservation. Green Capital challenges this argument by shifting our focus away from the scarcity of raw materials and toward the deterioration of the great natural regulatory functions (such as the climate system, the water cycle, and biodiversity). Although we can find substitutes for scarce natural resources, we cannot replace a natural regulatory system, which is incredibly complex. It is therefore critical that we introduce a new price into the economy that measures the costs of damage to these regulatory functions. This change in perspective justifies such innovations as the carbon tax, which addresses not the scarcity of carbon but the inability of the atmosphere to absorb large amounts of carbon without upsetting the climate system. Brokering a sustainable peace between ecology and the economy, Green Capital describes a range of valuation schemes and their contribution to the goals of green capitalism, proposing a new approach to natural resources that benefits both businesses and the environment. https://cup.columbia.edu/book/green-capital/9780231171403
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Introduction: The Color of Growth
1. Growth: A Historical Accident?
2. The Spaceship Problem: An Optimal Population Size?
3. Degrowth: Good Questions, Bad Answers
4. Introducing the Environment into the Calculation of Wealth
5. "Natural Capital" Revisited
6. Hotelling: Beyond the Wall of Scarcity
7. Nature Has No Price: How Then Is the Cost of Its Degradation to Be Measured?
8. Beyond Hotelling: Natural Capital as a Factor Required for Growth
9. Water, the Shepherd, and the Owner: A Choice of Green Growth Models
10. How Much Is Your Genome Worth?
11. The Enhancement of Biodiversity: Managing Access, Pricing Usage
12. Climate Change: The Challenges of Carbon Pricing
13. International Climate Negotiations
14. The "Energy Transition": Not Enough or Too Much Oil and Gas?
15. The Inescapable Question of the Price of Energy
16. Nuclear Energy: A Rising-Cost Technology
17. Growth-Generating Innovations
18. Planning or the Market: What Are the Catalysts?
19. European Strategy: Jump Out of the Warm Water!
Conclusion: Green Capital, Green Capitalism?
Notes
Index

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Pub Date: October 2015

ISBN: 9780231171403

288 Pages

Format: Hardcover

List Price: $35.00£26.00
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Pub Date: October 2015

ISBN: 9780231540360

288 Pages

Format: E-book

List Price: $34.99£26.00
Get the E-Book
Green Capital

A New Perspective on Growth

Christian de Perthuis and Pierre-André Jouvet. Translated by Michael Westlake

Columbia University Press

Main
Reviews
Contents
Excerpt
Links Awards

Many believe economic growth is incompatible with ecological preservation. Green Capital challenges this argument by shifting our focus away from the scarcity of raw materials and toward the deterioration of the great natural regulatory functions (such as the climate system, the water cycle, and biodiversity).

Although we can find substitutes for scarce natural resources, we cannot replace a natural regulatory system, which is incredibly complex. It is therefore critical that we introduce a new price into the economy that measures the costs of damage to these regulatory functions. This change in perspective justifies such innovations as the carbon tax, which addresses not the scarcity of carbon but the inability of the atmosphere to absorb large amounts of carbon without upsetting the climate system. Brokering a sustainable peace between ecology and the economy, Green Capital describes a range of valuation schemes and their contribution to the goals of green capitalism, proposing a new approach to natural resources that benefits both businesses and the environment.

https://cup.columbia.edu/book/green-capital/9780231171403

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