Research Handbook on the Green Economy

Edited by Andrew Jones, Professor of Economic Geography and President, Brunel University London, UK and Patrik Ström, Director, European Institute of Japanese Studies, Stockholm School of Economics and Associate Professor of Economic Geography, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Contents:

1 Introduction: conceptualising research into the green economy 1
Andrew Jones and Patrik Ström

PART I THEORETICAL APPROACHES IN GREEN
ECONOMY RESEARCH
2 Green economy definitions: recent trends and developments 13
Lucien Georgeson
3 Green growth 34
David Gibbs
4 The circular economy 51
Brita Hermelin
5 Are all industries now green? 64
Grete Rusten
6 Agenda 2030 and the green economy 81
Marie Stenseke

PART II INDUSTRIES AND SECTORS
7 Green finance: possible misallocation of portfolio assets and
net carbon tax proposals 96
Naoyuki Yoshino, Yumana Tomonori and Farhad
Taghizadeh-Hesary
8 Product circulation and remanufacturing 110
Mitsutaka Matsumoto
9 Green services 128
Patrik Ström
10 Servitization and the green economy 141
Keiko Toya
11 Construction and the green economy 160
Julia Affolderbach and Christian Schulz
12 Bioeconomy and international trade in Latin America 178
Ximena Olmos and Nanno Mulder
13 Second-stage challenges and opportunities for renewable
energy and national variation in adoption 194
Paul Midford
14 Green tourism 220
Lucia Pizzichini

PART III CHALLENGES AND CRITIQUES
15 Lean and the green economy: the promise of a waste-free society? 244
Daryl J. Powell
16 Green everywhere? Institutional greenwashing and injustice in
the green economy 258
Kirstie O’Neill
17 Green economies in the Global South: framings, experiences,
and immanent challenges 279
James T. Murphy

PART IV CONCLUSION
18 Coda: future directions and challenges for research into the
green economy 299
Andrew Jones and Patrik Ström