Services and the Green Economy
Services and the Green Economy addresses a significant gap in the knowledge and understanding of sustainable economic development. Bringing together a range of expert contributions the book analyses the role of services and service industries in the trans
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SERVICES AND THE GREEN ECONOMY
Services and the Green Economy
Andrew Jones • Patrik Ström • Brita Hermelin • Grete Rusten Editors
Services and the Green Economy
Editors Andrew Jones School of Arts & Social Sciences City University London London, United Kingdom
Patrik Ström Department of Business Administration University of Gothenburg Göteborg, Sweden
Brita Hermelin Centre for Municipality Studies Linköping University Sweden
Grete Rusten Department of Geography University of Bergen Bergen, Norway
ISBN 978-1-137-52708-0 ISBN 978-1-137-52710-3 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-52710-3
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Acknowledgements
The idea for our Green Economies Network became a reality with the initial workshop held at the Department of Human Geography at Stockholm University in November 2011. Later events included organized sessions at various international conferences with the economic geographers Brita Hermelin (University of Linköping), Andrew Jones (City University, London), Patrik Ström (University of Gothenburg) and Grete Rusten (University of Bergen) and the receipt of funding from the European Association for Research on Services (RESER) in 2012. Thanks to Statoil (through an academic agreement with the University of Bergen’s research program on climate and energy change) for sponsoring the workshop held in Os, Norway in November 2014. The participants in Green Economies Network and authors of chapters in this book are from universities in Japan, Germany, Luxembourg, the UK, the USA, Chile, Sweden and Norway. Th
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