Mapping Sustainability Transitions: Networks of Innovators, Techno-economic Competences and Political Discourses (SpringerBriefs in Business) - Softcover

Marletto, Gerardo; Franceschini, Simone; Ortolani, Chiara; Sillig, Cécile

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3319422723 ISBN 13: 9783319422725

Publisher: Springer, 2016

Synopsis

This book was written for anyone wishing to understand how sustainable scenarios emerge from current innovations. It complements current sustainability transition research by providing a “socio-technical map,” an analytical and operational tool that can be used to explain the current positioning of innovators and their networks; to form alternative transition pathways and scenarios; and to design policies for a sustainability transition. Drawing on multiple disciplinary approaches to the study of “green” innovations and focusing specifically on operational directives, it examines and assesses multiple transition pathways (and supporting networks). Lastly, it presents three sectorial case studies (urban mobility, agri-food, and lighting) to demonstrate how the “socio-technical map” can be concretely put into practice.

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About the Author

The authors of this work are economists interested in innovations for sustainability, who consider innovation as the result of a complex techno-economic and socio-political process. Sharing a strong inter-disciplinary attitude; they have worked successfully with engineers, business economists, geographers, policy scientists, sociologists, mathematicians and statisticians.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3319422723
• ISBN 13: 9783319422725
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 98