Routledge Handbook on the Green New Deal

Over the past year, the "Green New Deal" has moved from relative obscurity to front and centre of policy discussions and public debates about how to respond to the climate crisis. It has been credited with radically changing the nature of the conversation on climate change and with re-energizing the environmental movement at a critical time. The main element that all Green New Deal proposals share is that they are government-led but while they share a Keynesian interventionist economic model, they differ in other respects. This Handbook analyses the fundamentals underlying all of the Green New Deals as well as exploring the differences in emphasis and national or regional variations.

It is divided into three key parts: the first part looks at the underlying economics of the Green New Deal focusing not just on the how the proposals will be costed but more significantly at how the Green New Deal offers an opportunity for a fundamental transformation of the economy. The second part will explores issues of justice which are central to many Green New Deal proposals including issues around jobs, indigenous rights, feminism. In the third part, authors will detail case studies of Green New Deal proposals at the national or regional level.

This book will be an invaluable research and reference volume for students, scholars and policy-makers interested in all aspects of the Green New Deal, including economics, politics, sociology, environmental justice, geography, and environmental studies more broadly.