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Sustainability in India through wind: a case study of Muppandal Wind Farm in India

Natarajan, Vinodh K.; Kanmony, Jebagnanam Cyril - In: International Journal of Green Economics 8 (2014) 1, pp. 19-36

Sustainable development is closely associated with energy availability. It requires a continuous and efficient energy supply. Therefore renewable energy sources such as wind energy are vital for the Indian economy not only from supply side considerations but also for their environmental and...

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An economic analysis of ecosystem restoration concession policy in Indonesia: a new strategy for sustainable forest management?

Rahmawati, Annisa - In: International Journal of Green Economics 7 (2013) 1, pp. 56-70

To tackle the high rate of deforestation in Indonesia's production forests, a new type of licence was introduced in 2004 known as an Ecosystem Restoration Concession (ERC) or IUPHHK-RE by the Indonesian Government. For the first time, production forests could be managed for the purpose of...

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Broad-basing 'green' stock market indices: a concept note

Sunderasan, Srinivasan - In: International Journal of Green Economics 2 (2008) 4, pp. 372-378

Sustainability ('green') stock market indices are intended to focus attention on environmental credentials, to reward …

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Nuclear energy: a fuel for the 21st century? A green perspective

Reardon, Jack - In: International Journal of Green Economics 2 (2008) 2, pp. 226-240

Global warming has put green economics in an uncomfortable position. Should we support nuclear energy, long considered an anathema, as a temporary expedient? Or should we resist nuclear energy's seductive appeal as a palliative for global warming? Is green economics forced to choose between the...

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Research agenda for a green economics of abundance

Hoeschele, Wolfgang - In: International Journal of Green Economics 2 (2008) 1, pp. 29-44

goal is to work towards enhancing individual freedom, social equity, and environmental sustainability, which together imply …

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Public attitudes to the use of wildlife by Aboriginal Australians: marketing of wildlife and its conservation

Tisdell, Clem; Nantha, Hemanath Swarna - In: International Journal of Green Economics 2 (2008) 1, pp. 108-122

Indigenous Australians have socioeconomic attributes similar to those of residents in some developing countries. Their utilisation of wildlife could add to their economic opportunities. Attitudes of a sample of the Australian public towards the subsistence use of wildlife by Indigenous...

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The need for new types of organisation for the new century

Gilligan, Christine - In: International Journal of Green Economics 2 (2008) 4, pp. 353-371

Commercial organisations are at the heart of our economic, political and social systems and define almost every aspect of our lives. Most organisations today operate on the modernist principles of rational bureaucracy, which diminishes the complexities of human life and, because of the perpetual...

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The value of John Dewey's pragmatism for green economics

Skinner, Jane - In: International Journal of Green Economics 2 (2008) 3, pp. 249-255

The paper proposes that green economists will find the core ideas of the US pragmatist philosopher John Dewey of value both as a critique of the untenable 'rationalism' that permeates the currently dominant neoclassical economics and as an underpinning for their own more holistic, complex,...

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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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