Handbook of Green Economics

Handbook of Green Economics
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Introduction
	Background
	Plan of the remaining pages of this book
	References
1. Greening the national accounts: basic concepts and a case study of historical environmental accounting for Sweden
	Introduction
		From the silent spring to environmentally adjusted welfare measures
	Integrated environmental and economic accounting
	Historical environmental accounting based on SEEA approaches
	Depletion costs
	Expenditures for environmental protection and resource management
	Reconstructing historical environmental goods and services sector accounts for Sweden
	Results of ongoing estimates
	Conclusion
	References
2. How to handle natural capital within the context of the green economy?
	Introduction
	Previous research
	Current measures including natural capital
		Natural wealth and green accounting
		Genuine savings
	Natural capital as the basis of the green economy
		Could natural capital be replaced?
	Conclusions and policy lessons
	References
3. Long waves and the sustainability transition
	Introduction
	Rethinking the polycrisis from a long-wave perspective
	Sociometabolic transitions
	Technoeconomic surges of development
	Sociotechnical transitions
	Global development cycles
		Toward a synthesis
	Conclusion
	References
4. Greening of industry in a resource- and environment-constrained world
	Introduction
	Conceptual framework
		Sustainable consumption and production
		Circular economy
		Greening industries
	Greening industries and Agenda 2030
	Conclusion
	References
5. Smart cities as drivers of a green economy
	Introduction: the double crisis
	The green economy: evolution, scope, and controversies of the concept
	Green economy transition: application of the concept
	Cities and the green economy transition
		Why cities?
		The urban transition: smart cities as drivers of a green economy
		Urban land use
			Creating urban quarters as innovation clusters
			From industry-based solutions to nature-based solutions
		Urban buildings
		Urban transport
		Urban waste
	Discussion
	References
6. Environmental justice, climate justice, and the green economy
	Introduction
	Environmental justice: origins and evolution
	Framing environmental justice
		Dimensions of justice
		Subjects of justice
		Moral principles of justice
	Major issues of debate and challenges for a green economy
		Rights, responsibilities, and liabilities
		Compensation and rectification
		Risk perceptions and the precautionary principle
		Temporal and spatial scales
	Insights from the environmental and climate justice movements
	Concluding remarks
	References
7. Balancing climate injustice: a proposal for global carbon tax
	Introduction
	Carbon emissions and current strategies
	Our proposal
		Methodology
			Estimating the universal global carbon tax
			Estimating the tax of the “payers”
			Estimating the tax of the “beneficiaries”
		Data sources
		Results
	Conclusion
	References
8. Riders on the storm: how hard did Robert Gordon's environmental headwind blow in the past?
	Introduction
	Background and summary of the relevant literature
		On well-being
		On valuation of environmental damages
	General approach
	Data and methodological issues
	Results
		Historical development of emissions
		Development of the environmentally adjusted net national product
	Concluding remarks
	References
	Further reading
9. Economic instruments of greening
	Introduction
	Theorizing pollution abatement
	Policies toward pricing carbon
		Carbon taxation
		Emission trading systems
	Regulations toward environmentally friendly economics
		Renewables
		Other instruments
	Overall assessments and concluding comments
	References
	Further reading
10. Financing the green economy
	Green economy to build green finance
	Greening the system via green finance
	Who are the green actors?
	Why should investors worry about climate risks?
		Pressure over the budget
		Higher health-related spending
		Disruption in private sector capital spending
		Risks to price stability
		Volatile capital flows
		Pressure over the growth performance
	Environmental commodities
	Green financial instruments
		Green bonds
		Some advantages of green bonds
		Headline figures from the green bond market
		Green bonds principles
		Green loans
		Green loans principles
		Green sukuk
		Catastrophe bonds (cat bonds)
		Climate bonds
		Do the climate risks affect the cost of capital?
		Can green finance fight high cost of capital?
	Challenges and path ahead to unlock the green potential
	Concluding comments
	Abbreviations
	References
Index
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	Q
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