Part I. Strengths of change for a green economy opportunities and challenges 1. The clean-tech revolution in California and in France: opportunities and challenges – Anne Sengès 2. The emergence of ecological opportunities and firms’ behavior – Blandine Laperche and Nadine Levratto 3. Sustainable consumption in an evolutionary frame work: how to foster behavioural change – Nathalie Lazaric and Vanessa Oltra 4. Technology and sustainable development: myth or reality? – Arnaud Diemer Part II Theoretical origins and political aspects of the ecological opportunity 5. Re-greening the Earth while making our economies more peaceful and fair – Willem Hoogendyk 6. Economic theories environmental issues and history of thought – Sophie Boutillier and Patrick Matagne 7. Sustainable development: the teachings of the Physiocrats and the Classics – Pierre Le Masne 8. Political economy of innovation and sustainable development – Jerry Courvisanos 9. Capital accumulation crisis and return to nature? – Dimitrios Patelis Part III. Ecological opportunity in a changing world 10. Towards a social and environmental economy – Pierre Guguenheim 11. Formation and deformation of the environmental Kuznets curve for CO2 emissions – Thomas Jobert and Fatih Karanfil 12. Clean technologies and perspectives of the green economy in emergent and developing countries: foundations opportunities and constraints – Marc-Hubert Depret and Abdelilah Hamdouch 13. Global governance resources and sustainable economic development. A critical approach to the international economy – Lamia Yacoub and Dimitri Uzunidis 14. Global economic governance for more stable and sustainable development: some proposals from the Stiglitz Report - André Gabus and Alexander Hawthorne