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Green Economics in an Age of Austerity
A ground-breaking new book
The Green Economics Reader
This collection of essays, speeches and articles , introduces Green Economics to the
general reader!
Edited by Miriam Kennet, Volker Heinemann, Michelle Gale D’Oliveira & Katie Black.
Just Published by The Green Economics Institute December 2010
Book Overview: 5 parts. No. of pages 292 approx. (Cover price £22.00) ISBN/ EAN 978-1-907543-02-9
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Includes beautiful colour pictures from our work in Africa and inside COP climate conferences !
This collection of essays, speeches and articles , introduces Green Economics to the general reader. It offers
perspectives from people all over the world, with a variety of backgrounds, show how we can avoid the previous
pitfalls of biased perspectives of economics from power elites. This book is well suited for students, campaigners,
policy makers, and anyone with an interest in global issues such as environmental change, gender, climate change,
biodiversity loss, species extinction, policy, methodology and philosophy of economics and new forms of economics
and government in an age of austerity and when facing energy and jobs and green career challenges.
Part One - Concepts: establishing the Green Economics discipline: what is green economics and how it can make a difference
Part two - Developments in Green Economics: essays on the development and background of green economics as a discipline,
issues and philosophy in green economics, and the green economics response to environmental and economic crises in 2010
Part three - Green Economics in Context: solutions to problems today, perspectives, and on the financial crises.
Part four - Green Economics and Education: pedagogy and the importance of teaching young people
Part five - Case Studies: Green economics in action in Ethiopia, women’s unequal pay, green jobs and green careers, Galapagos
and China.
This book is the first in a new series for the general reader!
The Green Economics Reader Series
aiming to address all aspects of Green Economics as it comes to
prominence on the world stage.
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The Green Economics Reader is a collection of essays, speeches and
articles from leading green economists Green Economists, and also
green professionals, and philosophers on environmental change,
scientific theory and philosophy in Green Economics. Green
Economics as a discipline is outlined and described, and provides the
reader with well-thought out practical answers to existing and future
problems by incorporating knowledge and complex interactions into
an exciting and up to the minute understanding of the issues that the
world is facing.
The work of the Green Economics Institute (GEI) has given rise to the
global movement known as Green Economics and the Green
Economy. It was the aim and the achievement of The Green
Economics Institute to turn the vision of a few campaigners and
innovators into a massive global movement for change, one which
has been taken up by almost all global transnational institutions and
governments. This book is the first volume to bring these core ideas
to the general reader and to provide an insight into the development,
theory and features of Green Economics.
Green Economics is based on a completely innovative assessment of the problems, options and solutions available to
society, which is needed to deal with the challenges of the rapidly changing fragile and vulnerable physical and social
environments, which we face. It is a beacon of hope for addressing the related crises of climate, biodiversity loss,
species extinction and the global economic downturn. Green Economics also highlights the need for a progressive
approach, involving the complex mesh of both social and environmental justice, as the key to solving the economic
problems of the Age of Austerity.
About the Editors
Miriam Kennet is CEO, director and co-founder of the Green Economics Institute and the founder and editor of the
International Journal of Green Economics. She is a member of Mansfield College, Oxford University and the
Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University and one of the leading and best known global thinkers, writers and
speakers on green economics.. Her research at South Bank University, London and at Templeton College, Oxford
University focused on green issues and strategic management of international firms. She is co-editor of one of the few
books on Green Economics; "Green Economics, beyond Supply and Demand to Meeting People's Needs", and author of
over 100 articles on green economics and stakeholder theory, corporate social responsibility and economics
transformation, green jobs, geo engineering and women's unequal pay and poverty, climate change, poverty
prevention and biodiversity economics. A trainer with the National Government School, she is a regular trainer,
speaker, lecturer and adviser to governments on the international stage and also many universities around the world,
as well as running a very lively international interns college and regular influential and international green economics
conferences. She is also a member of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (MCIPS). She leads a delegation
to COP Ktyoto Conferences and also is a Uk government recommended member of the IPCC global network of climate
scientists.
Katie Black Heads up the Publishing and Books at the Green Economics Institute, having a first-class Masters in
Chemistry from Leeds University. She recently a cycled in a low carbon cycle trip round South East Asia and she is
based in Singapore, She is an expert in eco tech and environmental and green issues and innovative new solutions for
Carbon Capture and Storage. She was on our delegation to Cancun, Climate COP 16 Conference where she spoke on
behalf of the Green Economics Institute.
Volker Heinemann is an economist who studied at the Universities of Goettingen, Kiel and Nottingham. He is a
specialist in international and developing economics, monetary economics and macroeconomic theory and policy. He
is author of the book "Die Oekonomie der Zukunft," "The Economy of the Future," a book outlining the principal
structure for a modern economy that accepts the pressing changes that are required to the outdated current economic
thinking. He is co-founder and Director and CFO of the Green Economics Institute, a member of the Institute of
Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, trained at PWC and other major Institutions and Deputy Editor of the
International Journal of Green Economics.He was a Die Gruenen councillor in Germany and also was a journalist in
Chile.
Michelle Gale de Oliveira is a Director of the Green Economics Institute, UK, and trained in International Relations
Department at Richmond, the American International University in London (RAIUL) and at SOAS, London University.
and lives in the remote rainforest in Brazil. She was editor of the Green Economics Institute's members' magazine, The
Green Economist, and is Deputy Editor of the International Journal of Green Economics. Her writing has been featured
in Europe's World, one of the foremost European policy magazines. She lectures and speaks on Environmental and
Social Justice, Gender Equity, and International Development from a Green Economics perspective. She is founder and
chair of the Gender Equity Forum at RAIUL. Recently, she recently organised a Green Economics conference on
women's unequal pay and poverty in Reading, UK, and lectured on green economics in Berlin, Germany, at retreats in
Glastonbury, UK, and is a regular speaker at international conferences. She researches women's unequal pay and
poverty in Brazil. She led our delegation to Cancun,Mexico COP 16 climate conference and also attended COP15
Authors of this, the first book in the series include: Naomi Baster (Scotland -Orkney), Katie Black (UK), Sophie
Billington, (UK), Rosita Bujkaite, (Lithuania) Michele Gale D'Oliviera (USA and Brazil),Volker Heinemann (Uk and
Germany),Kristina Jociute (Lithuania), Miriam Kennet,(UK), Mahalet Alemayehu Mekonnen, (Ethiopia), Jack
Reardon, (USA) Oliver Tickell,(UK) Miriam Prasse (Germany) Sandra Ries, |(Denmark and New Zealand), Grit
Silberstein (Galapagos, Ecuador and Germany), Enrico Tezza (Italy), Jeff Turk (Belgium and Slovenia) Professor Lu
Wei (China).
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