Green growth-magic bullet or damp squib?

Abstract

The paper identifies various conceptualisations of green growth with a view to identify thecausal mechanisms that can support a green growth policy agenda to investigate the implications ofthese conceptualisations for measuring progress towards green growth, to identify possible trade-offsand integrate measures, and to explore the governance challenges that a green growth agenda islikely to pose against the background that many environmental problems have a bearing on multiplelevels of governance.