Good Green Jobs in a Global Economy: Making and Keeping New Industries in the United States (Urban and Industrial Environments) - Hardcover

" Good Green Jobs in a Global Economy effectively weaves together history, theory, policy, and case studies in a pragmatic, holistic, co-evolutionary analysis of the green-energy transition in the United States. David Hess successfully sheds much-needed light on 'greening' as a variegated discourse and set of conflicting practices. The book is a must read for those interested in gaining a deeper, globally-minded understanding of greening in the context of job growth, clean-energy production, corporate resistance, industry-labor-environment coalitions, socio-technical change, regional innovation, localism, developmentalism, and sustainability." -- Keith Pezzoli, University of California, San Diego; author of Human Settlements and Planning for Ecological Sustainability

"David Hess offers a cogent analysis of the politics and economics of development in a world faced with growing environmental crisis. He identifies the trend towards what he calls 'developmentalist liberalism' and makes a convincing case that this is a promising approach for future U.S. economic policy. If there is any hope of avoiding the twin threats of ecological disaster and economic collapse, this book describes a path forward." -- Brian K. Obach, author of Labor and the Environmental Movement: The Quest for Common Ground

"David Hess has done a great job in this book, both in outlining the need for good green jobs in the United States and for diagnosing why there has been so little progress to date. The issues he discusses are not going away. Hopefully, this book and others will be the catalyst to better address both climate concerns and the need for jobs in a timelier manner in the future." -- James C. Titkemeyer, Bureau of Labor Statistics