Overcoming Structural Disadvantages with Local Green Economies?

2021 ◽  
pp. 90-106
Author(s):  
Jeremy Moulton ◽  
Winfried Osthorst ◽  
Pauline Deutz ◽  
Andrew Jonas ◽  
Rüdiger Wurzel
Keyword(s):  
Green Economies

Green composites and their contribution toward sustainability: A review

2021 ◽  
pp. 096739112110093
Author(s):  
Edgar Vázquez-Núñez ◽  
Andrea M Avecilla-Ramírez ◽  
Berenice Vergara-Porras ◽  
María del Rocío López-Cuellar
Keyword(s):  
Natural Fiber ◽  
World Market ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Green Composites ◽  
Green Materials ◽  
Global Problems ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Green Economies ◽  
Green Polymer ◽  
World Environment

The current world environment scenario demands new and more eco-friendly solutions to global problems that cover the demands for materials. This sector has included green polymer-based composites and natural reinforcers from origins of renewable sources, these Green Composites (GC), natural-fiber-reinforced bio-composites in which the matrix is a bio-based polymer, have shown attractive characteristics. Biodegradability is one of the most important attributes for these new “green” materials, in that this characteristic allows for their introduction into the world market as an environmental solution. The manufacturing processes for obtaining these materials have observed important improvements because each raw material exhibits different properties and characteristics and their eco-friendly character has facilitated its incorporation into diverse sectors, such as construction, automotive, packaging, and medicine, among others. At present, this segment represents an important income for some economies, especially those where these resources are available, enhancing the creation of green economies, strengthening the world’s efforts toward sustainability.

scholarly journals Building a green economy of low carbon: the Greek post-crisis experience of photovoltaics and financial 'green grabbing'

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoi Christina Siamanta
Keyword(s):  
Green Energy ◽  
Green Economy ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Renewable Energy Resources ◽  
Green Growth ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Complex Interplay ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Green Economies

Abstract Under the global rhetoric of 'the green economy' Renewable Energy Resources (RES) projects have proliferated across the world. This article examines the growth of photovoltaic projects in post-crisis Greece, grounded in a green energy discourse. The aim is to provide insights into how green economies are built and what new appropriations they (might) entail. It is based on a Foucauldian oriented discourse analysis, in depth semi-structured interviews and review of a variety of other sources. The article argues that justificatory discourses for green growth implicated in 'green grabbing' involve the complex interplay of neoliberal and disciplinary 'environmentalities.' These seek to construct 'green economy' entrepreneurs and compliant subjects. A relatively undocumented and understudied aspect of green grabs is the appropriation of public and private financial resources for photovoltaic projects, with significant negative impacts on livelihoods. In Greece, this has resulted in the accumulation of capital by a few large RES companies, as well as significant impacts on the livelihoods of domestic and small business electricity consumers and small/medium photovoltaic investors through debt. Key words: Greece, green economy, photovoltaics, green grabbing, environmentality, Foucault, green energy

scholarly journals Business incubators and green technology: The Gauteng Climate Innovation Centre, South Africa

Urbani izziv ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol Supplement (30) ◽  
pp. 212-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maruschka Gonsalves ◽  
Jayne M. Rogerson
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Green Technology ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Business Incubators ◽  
Business Incubator ◽  
Green Technologies ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Learning Through Experience ◽  
Green Economies

Business incubators are a vehicle to assist the survival prospects of start-up enterprises, many of which fail in their early years of operation. One special form of business incubator is the Climate Innovation Centre (CIC) which is part of international debates around green economies and appropriate technologies for climatecompatible development. CICs are an intervention to build innovation sites to ameliorate climate change and a highly distinctive form of business incubator in which the explicit focus is upon supporting small business startups allied to the application of green technologies. Using a qualitative approach the article analyses the establishment and operations of the Gauteng Climate Innovation Centre in South Africa. The CICSA in its first five years of operations has been ‘learning through experience’ and introduced a number of changes since its launch in 2012, including an extension of the business incubation programme and an adjusted focus to South Africa’s climate change related ‘green’ issues around energy, water and waste. Although 5 years is too short for a conclusive evaluation of CIC operations the evidence from this research with South African clean-tech enterprises is largely positive and suggests that the assistance provided by the CIC has contributed towards enterprise development.

scholarly journals Enabling Green Skills: Pathways to Sustainable Development: a source book to support planning for green economies 2017

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Preshna Ramsaruphttp://orcid.org/https://orcid.org/00 ◽  
Mike Ward ◽  
Eureta Rosenberg ◽  
Nicola Jenkin ◽  
Heila Lotz-Sisitka
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Source Book ◽  
Green Economies

How to Green: Institutional Influence in Three US Cities

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 303-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenna A. Lamphere ◽  
Jon Shefner
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Green Economy ◽  
Little Rock ◽  
Core Set ◽  
Institutional Influence ◽  
Green Economies ◽  
Institutional Actors ◽  
Us Cities

The green economy holds the potential for addressing key dilemmas of sustainability by mitigating environmental degradation while reviving working and middle-class occupations. In effect, the green economy is a redevelopment practice that requires shifts in values and norms. We build on development scholars and others in our examination of institutions to determine the central roles played in fomenting vibrant green economies in three US cities: Chicago, IL, Little Rock, AR, and Knoxville, TN. Findings suggest that although a sustainable green economy requires inputs from a similar and core set of institutional actors, the role each plays is diverse, differing by case. Additionally, green economy development requires coordinated planning within and across institutions. Planning is often the most difficult strategy, as actors often have different values and goals, but without it, green economy development is unlikely.

scholarly journals Future green economies and regional development: a research agenda

2016 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Gibbs ◽  
Kirstie O’Neill
Keyword(s):  
Regional Development ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Green Economies

scholarly journals “Prosperity for Everyone” in the Post-Conflict?: How Does Environmentally and Militarily Oriented State (Re)Control in the Ariari Region Propel Productive Segmentation and Social Fracturing?

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego Andrés Lugo Vivas
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
The State ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Natural Park ◽  
Environmentally Responsible ◽  
Land Valuation ◽  
Active Processes ◽  
Green Economies ◽  
Global Agenda

Through perspectives on political ecology, this article aims to explain the paradoxical outcomes that global policies on state re-territorialization and promotion of green economies have had in the reconfiguration of the municipality of Puerto Rico (Ariari region, Colombian Amazonian Piedmont). On one hand, historically contested areas have experienced both relatively successful programs of peasant parceling, especially during the early 2000s, and more recently, active processes of deforestation and coca resurgence inside La Macarena National Natural Park. On the other, where the State has been able to secure a more militaristic presence, alliances between the State and agribusiness sectors have promoted land valuation and productive reconversion from coca to “clean, alternative and socio-environmentally responsible” oil palm plantations. Thus, a global agenda to accelerate the transition to a post-conflict scenario in the municipality of Puerto Rico has produced fracturing trajectories of peasant titling and green grabbing (and a sort of productive ghettoization) since the mid-2000s, radically transforming the socio-spatial landscape of this municipality.

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