Edward B. Barbier
A Global Green New Deal
They both indicate that the current economic recovery from the global recession is inherently unsustainable.
In 2008, the world was confronted with multiple crises—fuel, food and financial—and by December the result was the worst economic recession since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Overcoming these crises required a package of policy measures similar to Roosevelt’s New Deal, but at the global scale and embracing a wider and greener vision.
My book, A Global Green New Deal, offers a range of policy prescriptions to green the economic recovery, which will also reduce threats to the inherent stability of the world economy.
Meeting the short-term challenge of reviving the global economy need not mean sacrificing long-term economic and environmental sustainability.
A Global Green New Deal (GGND) is a comprehensive policy strategy for ensuring a lasting world economic recovery.
Reviving growth and creating jobs should be essential objectives, but policies should also aim to reduce carbon dependency, protect ecosystems and water resources, and alleviate poverty. Otherwise, economic recovery today will do little to avoid economic and environmental crises in the future.
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A Global Green New Deal
Edward B. Barbier A Global Green New Deal: Rethinking the Economic Recovery Cambridge University Press 322 pages, 9 x 6 inches ISBN 978 0521132022 ISBN 978 0521763097
Available here →September 6, 2010
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Edward B. Barbier
Edward B. Barbier is the John S Bugas Professor of Economics at the University of Wyoming. He has worked for over 25 years at the interface between economics and ecology, and served as a consultant and policy analyst for a variety of national, international and non-governmental agencies, including many UN organizations and the World Bank. Professor Barbier has authored over 150 peer-reviewed articles and chapters, is on the editorial boards of several leading economics and natural science journals, and appears in the 4th edition of Who’s Who in Economics. Among the nineteen books he has written or edited are Blueprint for a Green Economy (with David Pearce and Anil Markandya, 1989), Natural Resources and Economic Development (2005), and A Global Green New Deal (2010), featured in his Rorotoko interview.
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