The Green Economy in the Global South

The idea and practice of the ‘green economy’ is gaining momentum, coinciding with financial instability and continued economic woe in the Global North, but generally more positive economic circumstances in the Global South. ‘Green economic initiatives’ in the Global South are multiplying, and include carbon payments, ecotourism, community-based wildlife management, sustainability certification initiatives, and offsets by mining companies exploiting new resources. These initiatives are reallocating resources, redefining inequalities and redistributing the fortune and misfortune of participants of the green economy and those excluded from it. They have also led to resistance – locally, nationally, and transnationally – and to demands for alternatives to market-driven instruments and solutions, which are generally gaining strength and coherence. The articles included in this volume bring together a multi-disciplinary team of scholars from North and South to provide nuanced analyses of green economy experiences in the Global South – analysing the opportunities they provide, but also the redistributions they entail and the kinds of resistances they face. The ultimate aim of the collection is to provide a critical, but balanced, overview of the emerging green economy in the Global South and point the way to possible adjustments, alternatives or radical resistance, depending on different situations. This book was originally published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.

The Green Economy in the Global South: experiences, redistributions and resistance Dan Brockington and Stefano Ponte Four discourses of the Green Economy in the Global South Carl Death Tourism and the Green Economy: aspiring or averting change? Melanie Stroebel Suspended redistribution: Green Economy and water inequality in the Waterberg, South Africa Michela Marcatelli Extractive philanthropy: strategies for securing labour for private nature reserves Maano Ramutsindela Responding to the Green Economy: how REDD+ and the One Map Initiative are transforming forest governance in Indonesia Rini Astuti and Andrew McGregor The neoliberalisation of forestry governance, market environmentalism and reterritorialization in Uganda Adrian Nel Inverting the moral economy: the case of land acquisitions for forest plantations in Tanzania Mette Fog Olwig, Christine Noe, Richard Kangalawe and Emmanuel Joachim Luoga Performativity in the Green Economy: how far does climate finance create a fictive economy? Sarah Bracking

Stefano Ponte is a Professor in the Department of Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School. His research focuses on global value chains, the political economy of sustainability initiatives, and transnational environmental governance. Daniel Brockington is Director of the Sheffield Institute for International Development at the University of Sheffield where he holds a research chair. His research covers issues of conservation and environmental policy, celebrity advocacy, and livelihood change