Research Handbook on the Green Economy

Edited by Andrew Jones, Professor of Economic Geography and President, Brunel University London, UK and Patrik Ström, Director, European Institute of Japanese Studies, Stockholm School of Economics and Associate Professor of Economic Geography, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

• Contents:1 Introduction: conceptualising research into the green economy 1Andrew Jones and Patrik StrömPART I THEORETICAL APPROACHES IN GREENECONOMY RESEARCH2 Green economy definitions: recent trends and developments 13Lucien Georgeson3 Green growth 34David Gibbs4 The circular economy 51Brita Hermelin5 Are all industries now green? 64Grete Rusten6 Agenda 2030 and the green economy 81Marie StensekePART II INDUSTRIES AND SECTORS7 Green finance: possible misallocation of portfolio assets andnet carbon tax proposals 96Naoyuki Yoshino, Yumana Tomonori and FarhadTaghizadeh-Hesary8 Product circulation and remanufacturing 110Mitsutaka Matsumoto9 Green services 128Patrik Ström10 Servitization and the green economy 141Keiko Toya11 Construction and the green economy 160Julia Affolderbach and Christian Schulz12 Bioeconomy and international trade in Latin America 178Ximena Olmos and Nanno Mulder13 Second-stage challenges and opportunities for renewableenergy and national variation in adoption 194Paul Midford14 Green tourism 220Lucia PizzichiniPART III CHALLENGES AND CRITIQUES15 Lean and the green economy: the promise of a waste-free society? 244Daryl J. Powell16 Green everywhere? Institutional greenwashing and injustice inthe green economy 258Kirstie O’Neill17 Green economies in the Global South: framings, experiences,and immanent challenges 279James T. MurphyPART IV CONCLUSION18 Coda: future directions and challenges for research into thegreen economy 299Andrew Jones and Patrik Ström

‘An excellent collection of chapters on the topic of the green economy and growth that provides a historic perspective as well as investigating new channels. Recommended to all who are interested in these ideas.’