The Nature of Green Growth
- 주제(키워드) Green Growth , Sustainability , Discourse , Sustainable Development , Climate Change
- 발행기관 고려대학교 국제대학원
- 지도교수 James William Potter
- 발행년도 2015
- 학위수여년월 2015. 8
- 학위구분 석사
- 학과 국제대학원 국제학과
- 원문페이지 62 p
- 실제URI http://www.dcollection.net/handler/korea/000000060588
- 본문언어 영어
- 제출원본 000045840603
초록/요약
This thesis evaluates the discourse of Green Growth as promulgated by a group of international organizations, including the World Bank, UNEP, OECD and the Global Green Growth Institute and how nature is articulated here. Using a discourse analytical approach based on Laclau and Mouffe, it can be concluded that Green Growth is not a “new” paradigm but strongly embedded in classic problematic assumptions about nature resembling modern techno-scientific rationality. Thus, it does not break with current problematic consumption patterns, unfair trade relations and rather works as a new hegemonial intervention, trying to legitimize current capitalism, despite its negative effects on the environment. Starting with the hegemonic success towards a stronger economization of nature in the sustainable development discourse it is now strengthened in the Green Growth discourse. Despite the problematic reality and dislocational events such as the rising climate change awareness and the global financial crisis (e.g. crisis of capitalism), Green Growth is an articulation to achieve legitimacy, and thus hegemony, among the competing discourses regarding human-nature relations to support a neoliberalization of nature.
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1. Introduction ........................................................................................................................ 1
2. Literature Review ............................................................................................................. 5
2.1 Problems of Defining Knowledge and Rationality .............................................. 5
2.2 Discourse theory ......................................................................................................... 7
2.3 The Discourse of Nature ............................................................................................ 9
2.4 The Economization of Nature ............................................................................... 13
2.5 The Lack of Discourse Theory in current Green Growth Literature ............. 16
3. Methodology ................................................................................................................... 18
4. Sustainable Development ............................................................................................. 23
5. The History of Green Growth ..................................................................................... 27
6. Green Growth Theory ................................................................................................... 31
6.1 Misallocation of Capital ..................................................................................... 32
6.2 Reevaluating Nature ............................................................................................ 33
6.3 The Multiple Crises as a Chance for Growth ................................................. 33
6.4 Analysis of the Official Green Growth Discourse ........................................ 35
7. Nature and Green Growth ............................................................................................ 38
7.1 Nature as (Natural) Capital .................................................................................... 38
7.2 Nature as the Expertise of Experts ....................................................................... 40
7.3 Nature as Global....................................................................................................... 42
7.4 Nature as Unlimited ................................................................................................ 43
8. Nature for an Age of Neoliberalization ..................................................................... 46
9. Conclusion ....................................................................................................................... 49
Bibliography ........................................................................................................................ 51
