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Green capital : a new perspective on growth /

Challenging the certainty that ecological preservation is incompatible with economic growth, Green Capital shifts the focus from the scarcity of raw materials to the deterioration of the great natural regulatory functions (such as the climate system, the water cycle, and biodiversity). While we can...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Perthuis, Christian de (Autor), Jouvet, Pierre-André (Autor)
Otros Autores: Westlake, Michael (Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Francés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [2015]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: The Color of Growth
  • 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.