Syllabus/achievement requirements

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How to find an article on the reading list

All course curriculum is available at the bookstore Akademika. The compendium will be available at Kopiutsalget in the basement of Akademika. Please bring your student card.

Online articles

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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 2?C. 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. ?. 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 kunnskapsn?ringene – fornybar energi og milj?. Kapittel 10 i boken Et kunnskapsbasert Norge. Universitetsforlaget, Oslo. (20 pages)

@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.

@Smith, A. (2007): Translating Sustainability’s between Green Niches and Socio-Technical Regimes. Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 19, 4, 427-450. (23 pages).

@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 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. 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.
  (54 pages)

@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.

 

 

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