The Green Economy: Incremental Change or Transformation?

Borel-Saladin, Jacqueline; Turok, Ivan

doi:10.1002/eet.1614

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“…The green economy is a relatively new concept, and many aspects of it are controversial [6]. Many academics, even those familiar with the discourse relating to sustainability, are unconvinced about the merits of the green economy as a concept, or how it is being incorporated into policy [48][49][50]. This may account for its relatively slow uptake in higher education.…”

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confidence: 99%

Lessons Learned from Developing a New Distance-Learning Masters Course in the Green Economy

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Abstract:It is widely recognised that for the green economy to develop successfully, new educational curricula will be required to help professionals develop appropriate knowledge and skills. Relatively few university courses have been developed to date that explicitly focus on the green economy, reflecting its recent origins. Here we present the lessons learned from developing and implementing a new Masters course in the green economy, at Bournemouth University in the UK. The most significant challenges were institutional barriers, such as different departmental policies and procedures and decentralised budget strategies, which inhibited the cross-departmental collaboration desired for interdisciplinarity. Uncertainty about the future development of the green economy and its value as a concept, among both teaching staff and prospective students, presented a further challenge. In addition, the development of an appropriate curriculum for green economy courses has received little attention previously. Here, we present an overview of the curriculum developed for this Masters-level course, and, based on our experience, we demonstrate how the challenges in developing such a course can successfully be overcome.

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“…taking people's knowledge, experiences and aspirations into account) (Gough and McGregor 2007;Fritz et al 2009;Narayan et al 2009;Borel-Saladin and Turok 2013;Arthurson 2002;Mansuri and Rao 2004). These policy processes need to be contextually sensitive (Fritz et al 2009;Borel-Saladin and Turok 2013), and encourage participatory governance and capacity building to enhance such participation (Sachs 2004a, b;Lawson 2010).…”

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Sustainable development goals and inclusive development

Gupta

Vegelin

2016

Int Environ Agreements

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Achieving sustainable development has been hampered by trade-offs in favour of economic growth over social well-being and ecological viability, which may also affect the sustainable development goals (SDGs) adopted by the member states of the United Nations. In contrast, the concept of inclusive development emphasizes the social, ecological and political dimensions of development. In this context, this paper addresses the question: What does inclusive development mean and to what extent is it taken into account in the framing of the SDGs? It presents inclusive development as having three key dimensions (social, ecological, and relational inclusiveness) with five principles each. This is applied to the 17 SDGs and their targets. The paper concludes that while the text on the SDGs fares quite well on social inclusiveness, it fares less well in respect to ecological and relational inclusiveness. This implies that there is a risk that implementation processes also focus more on social inclusiveness rather than on ecological and relational inclusiveness. Moreover, in order to de facto achieve social inclusiveness in the Anthropocene, it is critical that the latter two are given equal weight in the actual implementation process.

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“…It has been shown that greening the economy can have considerable positive impacts to stimulate growth as well as improve the environment (Borel-Saladin & Turok, 2013a, 2013b. Tapping into this potential is of particular importance for a country such as South Africa with its high levels of unemployment as well as carbon emissions.…”

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“…Notwithstanding critiques about 'green-washing ' Borel-Saladin & Turok (2013a) contend from an examination of the international experience that the greening of the economy potentially can result in substantive and transformative changes towards the goal of sustainable development. In the case of South Africa the greening of the economy has become an important policy issue for two major reasons, namely the high level of national unemployment and the high carbon impact of the economy (Borel-Saladin & Turok, 2013b: 1).…”

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The greening of industrial property developments in South Africa

Greenberg¹,

Rogerson²

2014

Urbani izziv

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The greening of industrial property in the developing world context of South Africa is under examination. In particular, the focus is specifically on green property developments and planning for eco-industrial parks. The South African record on greening industrial property is situated as part of broader international scholarship and debates around eco-industrial parks. The analysis reveals South Africa currently is far behind a number of other emerging economies in terms of the making of eco-industrial parks. Driven by cost considerations and the image demands of international investors a process of the greening of industrial property developments in urban areas is taking root in the country. Nevertheless, at present there exists no eco-industrial parks using principles of industrial ecology that can parallel those in other parts of the world. Overall, it is shown that planning for ecoindustrial parks is in its infancy in South Africa.

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The Green Economy: Incremental Change or Transformation?

Cited by 157 publications

References 16 publications

Lessons Learned from Developing a New Distance-Learning Masters Course in the Green Economy

Lessons Learned from Developing a New Distance-Learning Masters Course in the Green Economy

Sustainable development goals and inclusive development

The greening of industrial property developments in South Africa

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