Green Jobs: Public Service Employment and Environmental Sustainability

Forstater, Mathew

doi:10.2753/cha0577-5132490405

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“…In this field, a useful strategy is to design training policies that will help workers transition to positions and tasks that are in line with the firm's move toward the CE. As Forstater () noted, “the ongoing jobs versus the environment mindset needs to be replaced with jobs and the environment attitude.” Thus, sustainable SMEs may create new “green jobs,” meaning traditional jobs will be transformed, but employees should not be fired. Instead, employees should be provided with training in the environmental knowledge they need (Renner, Sweeney, & Kubit, ).…”

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Key strategies, resources, and capabilities for implementing circular economy in industrial small and medium enterprises

Prieto‐Sandoval

Jaca

Santos

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Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are key actors in the implementation of the circular economy (CE) concept as a basis for creating sustainable societies. Thus, the main objective of this study is to identify key strategies and resources that may favor CE implementation in SMEs. These key strategies should encourage SMEs to develop eco-innovations to gain competitive advantage and create and capture value that is coherent with nature. A mixed-method approach that consisted of a literature review and a focus group for gathering qualitative data was used. This focus group was made up of experts such as researchers and practitioners from universities, sustainable SMEs, and consultancy firms in Spain. A set of strategies and internal and external factors were identified to help SMEs to implement the CE. Finally, some useful dynamic capabilities for implementing the CE in business performance were identified.

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Key strategies, resources, and capabilities for implementing circular economy in industrial small and medium enterprises

Prieto‐Sandoval

Jaca

Santos

et al. 2019

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“…In this regard, the South African EPWPII identified environmental and other jobs from other sectors that include infrastructure, social and non-state. Forstater [14] sees a supportive role played by public sector employment programmes in creating green jobs and sustaining the environment. Hence a diagrammatic representation to show and differentiate between jobs is presented in Figure 3.…”

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“…'Programme to Stimulate Growth in the South African Environmental Goods and Services Industry: The Green Jobs Concept', the DTI made reference to green jobs although no definition was provided. The DTI in collaboration with industry's intention was to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the Environmental Goods and Services (EGS) industry with a view to develop such a programme for South Africa (Forstater [14], DST [15]). The EGS industry was realised to be among the fastest growing industries globally, especially in line with environmental and climate change challenges.…”

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Green economies and green jobs: implications for South Africa

Nhamo

2010

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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The term 'green' is often (mis)used in a number of ways. For example, we talk and hear of green buildings, green financing, green economies, green wash, green accounting, green schools, green agriculture, green tourism, green procurement, green ITC, the list goes on. In this paper, we address twin, but closely linked, green terms: 'green economy' and 'green jobs' and their implications for an emerging economy like South Africa. The paper conceptualises the transition to green economies and how this impacts on the jobs market in South Africa.

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“…For the past eight years, I, along with a number of colleagues, have been involved in a project promoting a full employment policy that I have argued has the potential to address all of these critical issues [1][2][3][4][5][6]. This may have the effect of making the proposal appear a bit Utopian, but as ecological economists have been arguing for some time, the process of envisioning a sustainable future is a necessary first step in formulating and implementing effective policies [7][8][9][10][11].…”

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Green jobs: addressing the critical issues surrounding the environment, workplace, and employment

Forstater¹

2004

IJEWE

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The mission of the International Journal of Environment, Workplace and Employment (IJEWE) is to provide a forum for the discussion and analysis of the effect that achieving ecological sustainability will have on employment/unemployment and the nature of the workplace. Unfortunately, modern capitalism, as it presently exists, fails to provide full employment, a sufficient number of high quality jobs, or ecological sustainability. This paper demonstrates that all three goals can be promoted through the implementation of a Public Service Employment programme based on the principles of functional finance.

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Green Jobs: Public Service Employment and Environmental Sustainability

Cited by 52 publications

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Key strategies, resources, and capabilities for implementing circular economy in industrial small and medium enterprises

Key strategies, resources, and capabilities for implementing circular economy in industrial small and medium enterprises

Green economies and green jobs: implications for South Africa

Green jobs: addressing the critical issues surrounding the environment, workplace, and employment

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