Green Industrial Policy in Emerging Countries

ISBN-13: 9780415870672 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 194 str.

Tilman Altenburg; Bastian Becker; Tobias Engelmaier

Opis

For decades, governments have tried to foster industrial competitiveness and economic growth. Many instruments are known to work, and many lessons have been learned. However, humanity is increasingly feeling the effects of natural resource depletion. The rate of this depletion is deeply unsustainable, and it is as of yet inextricably linked to economic growth and development. To preserve acceptable living conditions for future generations, while at the same time creating these conditions for millions of poor in the first place, we must achieve a de-linking of economic activity and resource depletion.

This book identifies the drivers and success factors of green industrial policy, which seeks to reconcile the synergies and trade-offs which exist between economic and environmental goals. Greening the economy is a goal which will require enormous investment. As markets are currently failing to provide the required incentives for environmental sustainability, governments must intervene and provide policy rents for investments in sustainability while withdrawing rents from polluting investments. In this they will face the risk of political capture by interest groups and difficult choices among technologies. Rent management is therefore the heart of green industrial policy and the focus of this book. On top of this, the country examples provided in this volume focus on the emerging powers, which will have an important influence the future of our planet. However, the lessons learned are valuable not only for countries introducing green industrial policies for the first time, but also for those under pressure to reform existing policies.

This book will be of interest to students, researchers and policymakers in the areas of energy policy, sustainable development, industrial economics and ecological economics."

Recenzje

'Overall, the book provides an accessible entry point into green policy making that offers a general discussion, rather than a technical account, of renewable energy development.   Summing Up:  Recommended.  All undergraduates; general readers interested in green development and environmental policy.' -- Q. M Duroy, Denison University, for CHOICE

Spis treści

1. Why We Need a Green Industrial Policy Anna Pegels  2. Rent Management Capabilities for the Green Transformation Oliver Johnson, Tilman Altenburg and Hubert Schmitz  3. Implementing Green Industrial Policy Anna Pegels and Bastian Becker  4. Green Industrial Policies in China: The example of solar energy Doris Fischer  5. Rent Management and Policy Learning in Green Technology Development: The case of solar energy in India Tilman Altenburg, Oliver Johnson and Tobias Engelmeier  6. The Politics of South African Renewable Energy Support Anna Pegels  7. Reforming Fossil-Fuel Subsidy Regimes in the Middle East and North African Countries Georgeta Vidican  8. Lessons for Successful Green Industrial Policy Anna Pegels

O autorze

Anna Pegels is Senior Researcher at the German Development Institute (DIE), Germany. Her research focuses on the economic and political aspects of climate change mitigation, in particular the transition to clean energy in developing countries.