A Global Green New Deal: Rethinking the Economic Recovery

by Edward B. Barbier

• ISBN13: 9780521132022
• ISBN10: 0521132029
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-06-07
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Meeting the short run challenges of reviving the worldwide economy need not mean sacrificing long run economic and environmental sustainability. A Global Green New Deal (GGND) is an economic policy strategy for ensuring a more economically and environmentally sustainable world economic recovery. Reviving growth and creating jobs should be essential objectives. But policies should also aim to reduce carbon dependency, protect ecosystems and water resources, and alleviate poverty. Otherwise, economic recovery today will do little to avoid future economic and environmental crises. Part One argues why a GGND strategy is essential to the sustainability of the global economy. Part Two provides an overview of the key national policies whilst Part Three focuses on the global actions necessary to allow national policies to work. Part Four summarizes the main recommendations for national and international action, and discusses the wider implications for restructuring the world economy towards 'greener' development.

Author Biography

Edward B. Barbier is the John S. Bugas Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics and Finance, University of Wyoming. He has over twenty-five years' experience as an environmental and resource economist, working mainly on the economics of environment and development issues. He is the author of many books on environmental policy, including Natural Resources and Economic Development (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and, with David Pearce, Blueprint for a Sustainable Economy (2000).

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. ix
List of tables	p. x
List of boxes	p. xi
Foreword	p. xiii
Preface	p. xvi
Acknowledgements	p. xxi
Why a Global Green New Deal?	p. 1
Introduction: opportunity from crisis	p. 3
The Key Components of a Global Green New Deal	p. 31
Reducing carbon dependency	p. 35
Reducing ecological scarcity	p. 97
Challenges facing developing economies	p. 159
National priorities for a Global Green New Deal	p. 169
The Role of the International Community	p. 179
Promoting global governance	p. 182
Facilitating access to finance	p. 190
Enhancing trade incentives	p. 201
Conclusion: international priorities for a Global Green New Deal	p. 208
Towards a Greener World Economy	p. 211
Summary of recommendations	p. 214
Will a Global Green New Deal succeed?	p. 217
Beyond a green economic recovery	p. 258
PIIE-WRI analysis of a green recovery program for the United States	p. 281
Pew comparative analysis of clean energy jobs and investments in the United States, 1998-2007	p. 287
Glossary	p. 293
Index	p. 297
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