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.
@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)
@Peters, G.P., R.M. Andrew, T. Boden, J.G. Canadell, P. Ciais, C. Le Quéré, G. Marland, M.R. Raupach, and C. Wilson, (2013): The challenge to keep global warming below 2ºC. Nature Climate Change, 3, 4-6.
*Philips, M. (2008): Uneven Development (1984). Neil Smith. in Hubbart, P. et al (red.). Key Texts in Human Geography, Sage. (12 pages)
@Reid, W.V. et al. (2010): Earth System Science for Global Sustainability: Grand Challenges. Science 330: 916-917.
@Rockstrom et al. (2009): A Safe Operating Space for Humanity. Nature 461, 472-475
Module 2: Innnovation – 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. Å. and Johnsen, B. (1994): The Learning Economy. Journal of Industry Studies, Vol 1, pp 23-42 (19 pages).
*Hoogma, R., Kemp, R., Schot, J. og Truffer, B. (2002): Experimenting for Sustainable Transport, Kapittel 1 Technological Fixes. London, Spon Press. (11 pages) Edited By Steven T. Walsh and Aard J. Groen
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).
@Birtchnell, T. and Urry, J. (2013): Fabricating Futures and the Movement of Objects. Mobilities 8(3): 388-405.
@Boyd, E., Boykoff, M. and Newell, P. (2011): The “New” Carbon Economy: What’s New? Antipode, 43, 601-611.
@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).
@Gouvea, R., Kassicieh, S. and Montoya, M.J.R. (2013): Using the quadruple helix to design strategies for the green economy. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 80(2): 221-230. (10 pages).
@Porter, M.E. and Linde (1995): Green and Competitive. Harvard Business Review. (10 pages)
*Reve, T. and Sasson, A. (2012): De framvoksende kunnskapsnæringene – fornybar energi og miljø. Kapittel 10 i boken Et kunnskapsbasert Norge. Universitetsforlaget, Oslo. (20 pages)
@Rohracher, H. and Späth, P. (2013): The Interplay of Urban Energu Policy and Socoi-technical Transitions: The Eco-cities of Graz and Freiburg in Retrospect. Urban Studies, 51.
@Smith, A. (2007): Translating Sustainability’s between Green Niches and Socio-Technical Regimes. Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 19, 4, 427-450. (23 pages).
@Späth, 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).
@Sæther, 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 tranformations 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.
@Geels, Frank W., McMeeking, Andy, Mylan, Josephine, and southerton, Dale. (2015): A critical appraisal of Sustainable Consumption and Production research: The reformist, revolutionary and reconfiguration positions. Global Environmental Change 34: 1-12.
@Leach, M., J. Rockström, 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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@O´Brien, K. and Sygna, L. (2013): Responding to Climate Change: The Three Spheres of Transformation. Proceedings of Transformation in a Changing Climate, 19-21 June 2013, Oslo, Norway. University of Oslo. ISBN: 978-82-570-2000-1.
@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.