GEOG 3020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Improved Water Source, Malnutrition, Jevons Paradox
Document Summary
Green economy: an economy structured so as to reduce environmental risks and harm while supporting social well-being. Neoliberal due to its faith in markets as the best way of achieving social and environmental goals, and due to its tendency to treat environmental goods and services as commodities subject to trade (e. g. carbon) Redd (reduced emissions from deforestation and degradation): premise: an individual or organization can emit co2 if it is offset" by it being absorbed elsewhere; co2 emitters must pay for this service. Takes legally owned land from farmers and communities to be managed by foreign ngos: a scheme for large corporations to make profits, destroys biodiversity. Sustainable development and the green economy: reinforces (does not challenge) dominant capitalist model of economic development. International political consensus is to forge ahead with the green economy , which effectively says that the right kind of economic growth will deliver on sustainable development".
