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Avoiding extinction: the future of economics

Chichilnisky, Graciela - In: International Journal of Green Economics 3 (2009) 1, pp. 1-18

New physical constraints emerged in the 20th century and are changing the decision criteria used until now. Two optimisation problems are equivalent: (1) maximising discounted utility with a long-run survival constraint and (2) maximising a new type of utility that treats the present and future...

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Economic alternatives and childhood poverty

Alderson, Priscilla - In: International Journal of Green Economics 2 (2008) 1, pp. 77-94

Current national and international economic policies are exerting ever more direct pressures on children's lives and futures. This paper reviews key concerns and contradictions in neoliberal economic policies' effects on childhood. Alternative feminist and green economics and critical theory...

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Institutional constraints on China's transition to sustainability

Chen, Yang; Dutra, Cleber; Sanders, Richard - In: International Journal of Green Economics 2 (2008) 2, pp. 135-152

This paper analyses the institutional constraints on China's transition to sustainability. Through the investigation of … the ecological dimension of the sustainability in China, we argue that there is a vacuum of social consensus and public … understanding resulting from unbridled meritocracy and that this forms the key barrier to China's transition to sustainability. In …

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Economic growth and economic crisis

Anderson, Victor - In: International Journal of Green Economics 3 (2009) 1, pp. 19-27

This article argues that the recent financial crisis was caused largely by the long-term problem of the current world economy lacking a sustainable path of development. Limits to growth – expressed principally through rises in the price of oil and other commodities – created a crisis for the...

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Exploring the operating efficiency of semiconductor industry by a sustainable development approach

Hung, Shiu-Wan; Liu, Mei-Chun - In: International Journal of Green Economics 4 (2010) 2, pp. 145-155

This study attempts to characterise performance in terms of a simple indicator (revenue) to a multi-dimensional systems perspective, which includes the development of eco-efficiency and the sustainable development indicator. The influence of Perfluorocompounds (PFCs) on the operating performance...

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Forest accounts: a primary case study in China

Ying, Zhang - In: International Journal of Green Economics 4 (2010) 2, pp. 205-216

Forest accounting considers physical and monetary data relating to the degree of substitutability for natural capital, and composes accounts for forest assets measured in physical and monetary terms to show the impact of the economy on the environment. It is extremely useful in formulating and...

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Determining the economic-environment relation: a regulationist approach

Chester, Lynne - In: International Journal of Green Economics 4 (2010) 1, pp. 17-42

Regulation theory offers a cogent analytical framework to explain the contemporary environmental challenge, capitalism's responses to environmental issues and the challenge of sustainable development to accumulation. The paper outlines the insights provided by this analytical framework and seeks...

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Inequality and the commodification of urban life: challenges to sustainable development in contemporary Brazil

Goncalves, Jose Ricardo Barbosa; Madi, Maria Alejandra … - In: International Journal of Green Economics 4 (2010) 2, pp. 134-144

This paper presents a discussion about the unequal nature of the transformations in urban living conditions resulting from the prevailing neoliberal economic model in Brazil. In a historical perspective, it suggests that the social organisation in urban areas has been increasingly subordinated...

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The costs of women's unequal pay and opportunity: transforming the unbalanced structure of our economy to meet the challenges of today: climate change, poverty and the twin crises of the economy and economics

Kennet, Miriam - In: International Journal of Green Economics 3 (2009) 2, pp. 107-129

In the clamour to be green, it is often forgotten that women are more likely to be poor and earn less than men in all countries of the world. They have much less political, economic and institutional representation and are less present on the boards of the world's companies. If green economics...

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The role of strategic health impact assessment in sustainable development

Joffe, Michael - In: International Journal of Green Economics 4 (2010) 1, pp. 1-16

Health is one of the main ways of judging effects on humans and is a component of the three overlapping dimensions of sustainable development: environmental, social and economic. Yet, the assessment of health impacts has been neglected as a way of arguing for the importance of policies to foster...

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