Module 1: The Sustainability Challenge
*Altenburg, T. and A. Pegels. (2012): Sustainability-oriented innovation systems – managing the green transformation. Innovation and Development 2(1): 5-22.
@Anderson, K. 2015. Duality in climate science. Nature Geoscience, published online 12 Oct. (4 pages)
@Asafu-Adjaye, J. (2015): An Ecomodernist Manifesto.
@Global Commission on the Economy and Climate. (2014): Better Growth, Better Climate: The New Climate Economy Report (Synthesis Report). (55 pages)
@Colglazier, W. (2015): Sustainable Development Agenda: 2030. Science 349(6252) 1048-1050.
@Mol, A.P.J. and Spaargaren, G. (2000): Ecological modernisation theory in debate: A review. Environmental Politics 9(1): 17-49. (23 pages)
@Rockstrom et al. (2009): A Safe Operating Space for Humanity. Nature 461, 472-475
@Warner, R. 2010. Ecological modernisation theory: towards a critical ecopolitics of change? Environmental Politics 19(4): 538-556
Module 2: Innovation – the basics
*Asheim, B.T. (2005): The Geography of Innovation: Regional Innovation Systems. In Fagerberg, J., Mowery, D.C. and Nelson, R.R. (2005). The Oxford Handbook of Innovation. Oxford, Oxford University Press. (26 pages).
*Fagerberg, J. (2005): Innovation: A Guide to the Literature. In Fagerberg, J., Mowery, D.C. and Nelson, R.R. (2005). The Oxford Handbook of Innovation. Oxford, Oxford University Press. (28 pages).
*Freeman, C. (1992): A green techno-economic paradigm for the world economy. In Freeman, C – The Economics of Hope. Pinter Publishers, London. (21 pages).
@Geels, F.W and Schot, J. (2007): Typology of sociotechnical transition pathways. Research Policy, 36, 399-417.
@Liu, J. Chaminade, C. Asheim, B. (2013): The Geography and Structure of Global Innovation Networks: A Knowledge Base Perspective. European Planning Studies (published online).
*Lundvall, B. ?. and Johnsen, B. (1994): The Learning Economy. Journal of Industry Studies, Vol 1, pp 23-42 (19 pages).
Module 3 – Green innovations and transitions in practice
@Bain, C. and Selfa, T. (2013): Framing and reframing the environmental risks and economic benefits of ethanol production in Iowa. Agriculture and Human Values, 30, 351-364. (13 pages).
@Berkout, F., Verbong, G., Wieczorek, A. J., Raven, R., Lebel, L. and Bai, X. (2010): Sustainability experiments in Asia: innovations shaping alternative development pathways? Environmental Science and Policy, 13, 261-271. (10 pages).
@Boyd, E., Boykoff, M. and Newell, P. (2011): The “New” Carbon Economy: What’s New? Antipode, 43, 601-611.
@Bridge,G., Bouzarovski, S., Bradshaw, M., & Eyre, N. 2013. Geographies of energy transition: Space, place and the low carbon economy. Energy Policy, 53: 331-340.
@Coenen, L., Moodysson, J., Martin, H. (2015): Path renewal in old industrial regions: possibilities and limitations for regional innovation policy. Regional Studies Vol. 49, Issue 5, 850-865
@Falk, J. and C. Ryan. (2007): Inventing a Sustainable Future: Australia and the Challenge of Eco-innovation. Futures 39(2/3): 215-229.
@Forsman, H. (2013): Environmental Innovations as Sources of Competitive Advantage or Vice Versa? Business Strategy and the Environment, 22, 306-320. (14 pages).
@Geels, F.W., Kern, F., Fuchs, G., Hinderer, N., Kungl, G., Mylan, J., Neukirch, M., Wassermann, S. (2016) The enactment of socio-technical transition pathways: A reformulated typology and a comparative multi-level analysis of the German and UK low-carbon electricity transitions (1990-2014), Research Policy, 45(4), 896-913.
@Geels, F.W. (2014). Regime Resistance against Low-Carbon Transitions: Introducing Politics and Power into the Multi-Level Perspective. Theory, Culture & Society, 31, 5, 21-40.
@Hargreaves, T., Hielscher, S., Seyfang, G. & Smith, A. 2013. Grassroots innovations in community energy: The role of intermediaries in niche development. Global Environmental Change, 23 (5): 868-880.
@Niva, M., M?kel?, J. , Kahma, N. and Kj?rnes, U. (2014). Eating Sustainable? Practices and Background Factors of Ecological Food Consumption in Four Nordic Countries. Journal of Consumer Policy, 37, 465-484.
@Noe, E, Alr?e, H.F, Thors?e, M.H., Olesen, J.E., S?rensen, P, Melander, B. and Fog, E. (2015). Knowledge Asymmetries Between Research and Practice: A social Systems approach to Implementation Barriers in Organic Arable Farming. Sociologica Ruralis, 55, 460-482.
@Rohracher, H. and Sp?th, P. (2013): The Interplay of Urban Energu Policy and Socoi-technical Transitions: The Eco-cities of Graz and Freiburg in Retrospect. Urban Studies, 51.
@Shove, E. (2010). Beyond the ABC: climate change policy and theories of social change. Environmnet and Planning A, 42, 1273-1285.
@Smith, A. (2007): Translating Sustainability’s between Green Niches and Socio-Technical Regimes. Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 19, 4, 427-450. (23 pages).
@Smith, A., Kern, F., Raven, R.,& Verhees, B. 2014. Spaces for sustainable innovation:Solar photovoltaic electricity in the UK. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 81: 115-130.
@Sp?th, P. and Rohracher, H. (2010): “Energy regions”: The transformative power of regional discourses on socio-technical futures. Research Policy, 39, 449-458.
@Specht, K., Siebert, R., Hartmann, I., Freisinger, U.B., Sawicka, M., Werner, A., Thomaier, S., Henckel, D., Walk, H. and Dierich, A. (2013): Urban agriculture of the future: an overview of sustainability aspects of food production in and on buildings. Agriculture and Human Values 30, 351-361. (19 pages).
@S?ther, B. (2000): Continuity and convergence: Reduction of water pollution in the Norwegian pulp and paper industry. Business Strategy and the Environment, 9, 390-400.
@Ulsrud, K., Winther, T., Palit, D., Rohracher, H. and Sandgren, J. (2011): The Solar Transitions research on solar mini-grids in India: Learning from local cases of innovatove socio-technical systems. Energy for Sustainable Development, 15, 293-303. (10 pages)
@Veugelers, R. (2012): Which policy instruments to induce clean innovating? Research Policy, 41, 1770-1778.
@Weber, K. and Rohracher, H. (2012): Legitimizing research, technology and innovation policies for transformative change. Combining insights from innovation systems and multi-level perspective in a comprehensive “failures” framework. Research Policy, 41, 1037-1047.
Module 4 – Social innovation and transformations to sustainability
@Avelino, F. Wittmayer, J., Haxeltine, A., Kemp, R., O’Riordan, T., Weaver, P., Loorbach, D. and Rotmans, J. (2014): Game-changers and Transformative Social Innovation. The Case of the Economic Crisis and the New Economy, TRANSIT working paper, TRANSIT: EU SSH.2013.3.2-1 Grant agreement no: 613169
*Bornstein, D. How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of new Ideas. Oxford.
@Leach, M., J. Rockstr?m, P. Raskin, I. Scoones, A. C. Stirling, A. Smith, J. Thompson, E. Millstone, A. Ely, E. Arond, C. Folke, and P. Olsson. (2012): Transforming innovation for sustainability. Ecology and Society 17(2): 11.
@Leismann, K. et al. (2013): Collaborative consumption: Towards a resource-saving consumption culture. Resources 2: 184-203.
@ Mulgan, G., Tucker, S., Ali, R. and B. Sanders. (2007): Social Innovation: What it is, why it matters and how it can be accelerated. Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship.
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@Robert Grimm, Christopher Fox, Susan Baines & Kevin Albertson (2013) Social innovation, an answer to contemporary societal challenges? Locating the concept in theory and practice, Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research, 26:4, 436-455
@Sahakian, M. (2013): Complementary currencies: What opportunities for sustainable consumption in times of crisis and beyond? Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy 10(1): 4-13.
@Weinstein, MP et al. (2013): The global sustainability transition: it is more than changing light bulbs. Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy 9(1): 4-15.
Recommended Readings:
Hawken, P. 1993. The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability. NY, Harper Business.