The Oxford Handbook on the Greening of Economic Development

by Mathews, John A.; Oqubay, Arkebe

• ISBN13: 9780198883487
• ISBN10: 019888348X
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780198883494
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2025-08-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

John A. Mathews, Professor Emeritus, Macquarie University (Sydney),Arkebe Oqubay, Global Professor, British Academy

John A. Mathews is Professor Emeritus at Macquarie University, Sydney, in the Macquarie Business School. He was Professor of Strategy at Macquarie Graduate School of Management from 2000 and previous to that held positions at University of NSW and a professorial fellowship at the Australian National University. He has focused for more than a decade on the strategic dynamics of greening of industry, applying insights from business theory to the greening of economic development.

Arkebe Oqubay is a British Academy Global Professor at SOAS University of London. He is a former Senior Minister and Special Advisor to three successive Prime Ministers of Ethiopia and the former Mayor of Addis Ababa. His current research focuses on structural transformation, catch-up, green transformation, and industrial policy with a focus on Africa.

Table of Contents

AcknowledgementsList of FiguresList of TablesList of ContributorsI. Greening of Economic Development: Context and Theoretical Perspectives1. Greening of economic development: An introduction, John A. Mathews and Arkebe Oqubay2. The global green shift: History, dynamics, and prospects, Jan Fagerberg3. Developmental environmentalism: Green growth in East Asia, Sung-Young Kim, Hao Tan, and Elizabeth Thurbon4. Green transformation as new direction for technoeconomic development, Rasmus Lema and Carlota Perez5. Evolutionary dynamics of the Green and Circular Economy, Maj Munch AndersenII. Greening of Energy, of Resource Flows, and Finance6. Fossil fuels exit: Challenges, perspectives, bottlenecks, Nicola Armaroli7. Reversing the fuel-electricity system provides for complete fossil fuel replacement and a stable grid, Tomas Kaberger8. Social cost benefit analysis of 100 percent renewables systems, Mark Delucchi9. Renewable hydrogen production economics: Influence of electrolyser performance, Gerhard Swiegers with Rahman Daiyan, Abbey Last, and M. Haider Ali Khan10. Taiwan's green technology development: The role of fuel cells and the green hydrogen economy, Meg Jo-Chen Lin, Justin Che-Ping Chou, and Mei-Chih Hu11. Japanese debates over the energy transformation (GX), Jusen Asuka12. Greening the economy: industrial ecology and industrial symbiosis, Marian Chertow and Koichi Kanaoka13. The role of finance in greening economic development, Ulrich Volz and Damon Aitken14. Role of mission-oriented development banks in greening, Mariana Mazzucato and Laurie MacfarlaneIII. Greening along Value Chains15. Green windows of opportunity and catch-up industrialization in Africa, Lindsay Whitfield, Felix Maile, and Tobias Wuttke16. Economic performance of urban mining for future resource supply, Xianlai Zeng and Xin Xiong17. Greening of global value chains, Aarti Krishnan18. Regenerative farming and greening of food production, John Schooneveldt19. Patenting strategies for electric vehicles, Chan-Yuan Wong, Chia-Chen Chang, and Hon-Ngen FungIV. Greening of Regions20. How China's green strategy is changing the world, Jeffrey Ball21. Greening in Central and South Asia: India, Simran Talwar and Maartje Feenstra22. Greening in Northern Europe: Offshore wind power, Ewan Gibbs23. Greening the economy: The Singapore model, Euston Quah and Jun Rui Tan24. Greening in Southeast Asia, Rajah Rasiah and Gopi Krishnan Vijayaraghavan25. Greening of Latin American economies, Amir Lebdioui26. The EU's green industrial policy: Europe's Green Deal, Michael A. Landesmann27. A green transition in the USA: The case of fossil fuel-dependent West Virginia, Robert PollinV. Greening of strategies for economic development28. Conditions for success of green industrial policy, Keun Lee29. Greening industrial development strategies, Richard Kozul-Wright, Diana Barrowclough, and Piergiuseppe Fortunato30. Greening of economic development: The New Deal's enduring legacy, Michael H. Best31. Greening of economic development: The next Great Transformation - Conclusions and pathways to the future, John A. Mathews and Arkebe Oqubay