Essays about: "green think-tanks"

Found 2 essays containing the words green think-tanks.

1. 1. The Price of a Green Conscience : Social impacts of carbon forestry projects

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

   Author : Jasmine Brown; [2021]
   Keywords : Climate compensation; Sustainable development; Tree planting; Uganda; Mozambique;

   Abstract : Scholars and civil society organizations have over the last decade referred to large-scale carbon sequestration TPPs as "carbon colonialism" (Carmody and Taylor, 2016) as well as a "development by dispossession" dressed in new clothing behind words such as climate change mitigation and development (Kröger, 2012). Concerns have been raised that the trade-offs from the implementation of industrial tree plantations (ITPs) may result in conflicting effects on countries' overall development (The Oakland Institute, 2019; Osborne, 2015; Nel & Hill, 2013). READ MORE

3. 2. Economic growth: help or hinder for sustainability? : an investigation of perspectives on economic growth and sustainability within the Swedish environmental movement

   University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

   Author : Hanna Bach; [2017]
   Keywords : environmental NGOs; meta-governance; sustainability science; Q-methodology; green think-tanks; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : There is a longstanding debate between environmentalists and economists regarding the possibility to combine economic growth and sustainability. So far, the neoliberal economists’ argumentation for a capitalist economic system with everlasting economic growth has been the dominating paradigm. READ MORE