Green capital: a new growth perspective.

Summary "Does nature have a price? How can we value the capital it represents in order to build a different relationship between man and his environment? Can we make the ecological imperative compatible with economic prosperity? This book breaks with traditional economic thinking, which considers nature as a limited stock of resources, whose depletion threatens growth. Christian De Perthuis and Pierre-André Jouvet oppose this vision based on scarcity with the notion of a regulatory function: the services provided by nature, such as climate stability or biodiversity, cannot remain free of charge if we want to maintain the possibility of growth. Exploring the fields of experimentation already open for climate and biodiversity, the authors show that there is a breeding ground for innovation and investment for sustainable growth. They reveal the challenges of the energy and ecological transition from a new angle." [Source: 4th cover].