Transitioning to sustainable academic conferences needs more experimentation and reflection
Global Sustainability, 2023 Non-technical summary Accelerated decarbonization of academic conferences is necessary and urgent. Despite the window of opportunity that COVID-19 created for rethinking conferences, there is a risk of slipping back into old habits now that restrictions
Rob Raven +9 more
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Going beyond instrument interactions: towards a more comprehensive policy mix conceptualization for environmental technological change [PDF]
, 2015 Reaching a better understanding of the policies and politics of transitions presents a main agenda item in the emerging field of sustainability transitions.
Reichardt, Kristin, Rogge, Karoline S
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Engaging with complexity in resilience practice
Ecology and Society, 2021 In a complex and turbulent world, there is heightened interest in managing for resilience. However, resilience guides, particularly those used in the development field, often lack a theoretical grounding in complex adaptive systems.
My M. Sellberg +4 more
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Enabling Future Sustainability Transitions: An Urban Metabolism Approach to Los Angeles Pincetl et al. Enabling Future Sustainability Transitions [PDF]
, 2014 Summary: This synthesis article presents an overview of an urban metabolism (UM) approach using mixed methods and multiple sources of data for Los Angeles, California.
Chester, M +7 more
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, 2023 AbstractCompanies are increasingly faced with the challenge of how to implement sustainability strategies in their business performances. This chapter discusses transition processes, presents mechanisms, and clarifies how tools and methodologies from Part II of this book can help companies in the transition process towards more sustainable practices ...
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Embracing the political in technology and transition studies: a response to Philip Vergragt and Bram Bos [PDF]
, 2013 This article is a short reaction to the comments of Vergragt (Found Sci, 2012) and Bos (Found Sci, 2012) on my article “Sustainability transition and the nature of technology” (Paredis in Found Sci 16(2–3):195–225, Paredis 2011).
Paredis, Erik
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Axes of contestation in sustainability transitions [PDF]
Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 2022 Research in sustainability transitions increasingly acknowledges that the structural characteristics of socio-technical systems differ. However, little attention has been paid to the specific transition dynamics that can result from this structural variation.
Stine Madsen +2 more
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Participation in Transition(s):Reconceiving Public Engagements in Energy Transitions as Co-Produced, Emergent and Diverse [PDF]
, 2016 This paper brings the transitions literature into conversation with constructivist Science and Technology Studies (STS) perspectives on participation for the first time.
Arendt H. +23 more
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Towards a sustainable Growth story: A critical analysis of the fundamentals [PDF]
, 2008 In this paper, I will develop an insight into the growth process of Indian Economy and will find that increased inequality due to unconventional transitions have its negative implications for future growth prospects and the overall issue of ...
Saraswat, Deepak
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Sustainability transitions and the state [PDF]
, 2017 Sustainability transitions is an emerging field of research that has produced both conceptual understandings of the drivers of technological transitions, as well as more prescriptive and policy-engaged analyses of how shifts from unsustainable to ...
Johnstone, Phil, Newell, Peter
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