Green Growth: Managing the Transition to a Sustainable Economy

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“…DG and GG, despite seemingly representing contrasting views on economic growth, are captured in this cluster, which suggest a thread of underlying similarities. This aligns with literature proposing that while semantically the constructs appear different, and their perspectives and discourse come from different "homes", they have evolved to share similar conceptual concerns (Vazquez-Brust et al, 2014;Vazquez-Brust and Sarkis, 2012). Vazquez-Brust et al ( 2014) discuss a critical green growth perspective -_which they associate with policy in East Asia-that does not propose unrestricted growth but a combination of growth in sectors improving environmental protection and degrowth in sectors environmentally damaging.…”

Section: Mapping Scientific Production In the Four Domainssupporting

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“…The concept of Green Growth had been discussed since 1990 but gained traction in 2005 in South Korea, as a policy that emphasises environmentally sustainable economic progress to foster low-carbon, socially inclusive development. (Vazquez-Brust and Sarkis, 2012). GG interprets expenditure to prevent climate change not as a cost but as an investment and argues that economic crises are opportunities to dispose of obsolete polluting technologies and introduce radical changes towards sustainability; and advocates investment in the environment as a driver for "recoupling" _environmental protection with growth accumulation (Haberl et al, 2020;Hickel and Kallis, 2020).…”

Section: Green Growth and The Un Sdgsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Global insect decline is the result of wilful political failure: A battle plan for entomology

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The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment assessed ecosystem change, human wellbeing and scientific evidence for sustainable use of biological systems. Despite intergovernmental acknowledgement of the problem, global ecological decline has continued, including declines in insect biodiversity, which has received much media attention in recent years. Several roadmaps to averting biological declines have failed due to various economic and political factors, and so biodiversity loss continues, driven by several interacting human pressures. Humans are innately linked with nature but tend to take it for granted. The benefits we gain from the insect world are broad, yet aversion or phobias of invertebrates are common, and stand firmly in the path of their successful conservation. Providing an integrated synthesis for policy teams, conservation NGOs, academic researchers and those interested in public engagement, this article considers: (1) The lack of progress to preserve and protect insects. (2) Examples relating to insect decline and contributions insects make to people worldwide, and consequently what we stand to lose. (3) How to engage the public, governmental organizations and researchers through “insect contributions to people” to better address insect declines. International political will has consistently acknowledged the existence of biodiversity decline, but apart from a few narrow cases of charismatic megafauna, little meaningful change has been achieved. Public values are reflected in political willpower, the progress being made across the world, changing views on insects in the public should initiate a much‐needed political sea‐change. Taking both existing activity and required future actions, we outline an entomologist's “battle plan” to enormously expand our efforts and become the champions of insect conservation that the natural world needs.

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The Impact of Contextual Factors on the Implementation of Government E‐Strategy in Previously Disadvantaged Areas in Cape Town

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E J Info Sys Dev Countries

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Despite the fact that it has been established that contextual factors affect implementation of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) projects, there is a dearth of information on how these were addressed in the implementation of the whitepaper on e-education in schools in previously disadvantaged areas in South Africa. This interpretive study, guided by contextual interaction theory, examines the impact of contextual factors in the implementation of ICT in schools in previously disadvantaged areas. The findings show that the implementation context and the history of the implementers and other issues that are in no way related to the implementation process affect the implementation process and outcomes. The results of this study offer those who carry out ICT in education implementation projects in disadvantaged areas in South Africa and similar contexts elsewhere insights into the Information Systems implementation dynamics. Key Words: ICT Implementation; Impact of Contextual Factors on Implementation; EGovernment Strategy; Policy Implementation; Education 1RESEARCH PROBLEM Despite the noble intentions and efforts driving implementation of information and communication technology (ICT) in education, the integration of ICT's into teaching and learning has been wrought with challenges (Ford and Botha, 2010). Researchers have evaluated the adoption of ICT's in education from different dimensions such as community informatics, digital divide, adoption barriers and self-efficacy issues. Studies show that there are problems realising the associated benefits of the ICT investments, inadequate ICT resources, limited access to the Internet, technophobia and age related adoption issues as older teachers have been found to struggle to adapt to using ICT for teaching and learning; shortage of skilled teachers to teach ICT subjects and security issues. Social status of the potential users of ICT's has also been found to have a bearing on computer use and experience. It has also been established that there are issues with the high costs of acquiring and setting up ICT-based Management Information Systems (Wilson-Strydom and Thomson, 2005;Ford and Botha, 2010;Hodgkinson-Williams et al., 2007; Ng'ambi and Brown, 2004; Tas and Tatnal, 2010). Studies that have looked at the implementation process of the whitepaper have established that the implementation process is besieged with "dispersed and uncoordinated" implementation programmes and projects (Ford and Botha, 2010 p.1). These findings are not surprising as literature shows that planning and management of ICT projects is poorly done in developing countries (Galliers et al. 1998;Heeks, 2002).Predominantly, existing studies have not focused on how the implementation process and context could have affected the implementation outcomes. The studies evaluate the successes and challenges faced by teachers in using ICT for teaching and learning. Whilst evaluation of ICT projects is problematic and subjective, research has shown that evaluation studies ought to investi...

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Green Growth: Managing the Transition to a Sustainable Economy

Cited by 27 publications

References 147 publications

Circular economy, degrowth and green growth as pathways for research on sustainable development goals: A global analysis and future agenda

Circular economy, degrowth and green growth as pathways for research on sustainable development goals: A global analysis and future agenda

Global insect decline is the result of wilful political failure: A battle plan for entomology

The Impact of Contextual Factors on the Implementation of Government E‐Strategy in Previously Disadvantaged Areas in Cape Town

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