Abstract
The new concept of “green growth” appears to be an economic growth model, which balances environment sustainability and fostering of economic growth. Yet, much of the green growth research has failed to address the real extent of interconnections and complexity of the relationship between governance and economic, social, and environmental structures. Furthermore, current green growth research tends to focus on the country level, such as the Millennium Development Goals and sustainable development indices, which risks ignoring the additional impacts on micro industrial economies. The lack of connection between green growth and good governance—known as environmental governance—is a crucial gap in practical adoption. Therefore, this study uses Foucault’s governmentality lens to view green growth as a technique of government, seeking an environmentally focused eco-governmentality. We examine the transformation, differential definitions, and critical dimensions of green growth in relation to particular case studies taken from China and South Korea and frame them for future sustainable studies. The findings of this study highlight the significant role of interdisciplinary research, as well both bottom-up and top-down initiatives, on enabling the transition to green growth. The proposed research framework and implementation strategy also identifies new avenues for future research and practices in the field of sustainable development, making it one of the study’s key contributions to the literature.
Highlights
In the face of global challenges such as climate change, rising greenhouse gas emissions, and environmental pollution, countries have begun to search for a suitable development strategy.repeated failures in other international policies have made it necessary to seek a new growth and development paradigm
The first ministerial-level meeting on green growth was held in June 2009, and announcements were made to carry out green growth strategies in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) member states as an answer to the current dilemma relating to emergency consumption and beyond and as an acknowledgment that
MacArthur Foundation McKinsey and Company [31] outlined some of the benefits of engaging in the circular economy, for example, the cost of reproduction of one mobile phone would be reduced by 50%, washing machine customers could save roughly a third per wash cycle while the manufacturer would gain more profit if the washing machines were leased rather than sold, and income could be generated from waste management in the household and in the hospitality sector
Summary
In the face of global challenges such as climate change, rising greenhouse gas emissions, and environmental pollution, countries have begun to search for a suitable development strategy. 7) stating that the “failure of critical climate negotiations has indicated that theories of sustainable development have not yet been effectively implemented in practical policies” Against this backdrop, one of the significant and meaningful current debates in the sustainable development paradigm has materialized as “green growth”. One of the significant and meaningful current debates in the sustainable development paradigm has materialized as “green growth” This new approach involves “fostering economic growth and development while ensuring that natural assets continue to provide the resources and environmental services on which our well-being relies” [3]. The paper proposes a new research coordination framework for green framework for green growth, which is urgently needed.
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