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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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The changing structure of the renewable industry – implications for a green transition to sustainable energy

Reardon, Jack - In: International Journal of Green Economics 3 (2009) 3/4, pp. 367-381

This paper investigates the transition process from carbon to renewable energy. How a transition occurs, whose values are solicited and whose voices are listened to will determine the contours of the future economy. Section 1 will briefly discuss the current contours of global energy. Section 2...

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Perceptions of stakeholder engagement – just what is it really?

Curzon, Rachel - In: International Journal of Green Economics 3 (2009) 3/4, pp. 271-284

considering the sustainability agenda, was much more difficult. The majority felt that the current level of stakeholder …

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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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