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The term green growth has been used to describe national or international strategies, for example as part of economic recovery from the COVID-19 recession, often framed as a green recovery. Critics of green growth highlight how green growth approaches do not fully account for the underlying economic systems change needed in order to address the ...
Degrowth is an academic and social movement critical of the concept of growth in gross domestic product as a measure of human and economic development. [1] [2] [3] The idea of degrowth is based on ideas and research from economic anthropology, ecological economics, environmental sciences, and development studies.
Environmental sociology is the study of interactions between societies and their natural environment.The field emphasizes the social factors that influence environmental resource management and cause environmental issues, the processes by which these environmental problems are socially constructed and define as social issues, and societal responses to these problems.
The rate or type of economic growth may have important consequences for the environment (the climate and natural capital of ecologies). Concerns about possible negative effects of growth on the environment and society have led some to advocate lower levels of growth, from which comes the idea of uneconomic growth and Green parties which argue that economies are part of a global society and a ...
The term green growth has been used to describe national or international strategies, for example as part of economic recovery from the COVID-19 recession, often framed as a green recovery. Critics of green growth highlight how green growth approaches do not fully account for the underlying economic systems change needed in order to address the ...
Ecological modernization is a school of thought that argues that both the state and the market can work together to protect the environment. [1] It has gained increasing attention among scholars and policymakers in the last several decades internationally.
The environmental movement (sometimes referred to as the ecology movement) is a social movement that aims to protect the natural world from harmful environmental practices in order to create sustainable living. [1]
Green economy – Economy based on a knowledge of ecological economics; Green growth – Economic growth that is environmentally sustainable; Green libertarianism – Political ideology with mixed green and libertarian beliefs; Greenwashing – Use of the aesthetic of conservationism for promotion