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Innovation Pathways to Sustainability: Conversations Towards Complex Systems of Governance: Routledge Frontiers of Business Management

Editat de Michael Lester, Marie dela Rama
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 9 aug 2024
The book offers insights into reconciling innovation with sustainability and identifying key stakeholders responsible for the reconciliation. Through conversations with experts in various fields, the intersection of innovation, sustainability, governance and complex systems in a rapidly changing climate-driven world is discussed.
Countries around the world face the urgent existential challenge to tackle climate change and CO2 emissions. In its discussions of case studies of key economic sectors in Australia, this book focuses on the emerging experience with harnessing innovation to sustainability. The interdisciplinary approach to the complexity of climate change and policy making provides readers an opportunity for thoughtful discussions and lessons to be learnt from multiple angles.
This is a vital resource for scholars in climate studies, innovation and sustainability that also confronts important challenges facing policymakers, government and society.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781032248295
ISBN-10: 1032248297
Pagini: 376
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.7 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Frontiers of Business Management

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Professional

Cuprins

TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Acronyms
The Interviewees
 
Chapter 1: Introduction - Exploring the Opportunities and Challenges Of Innovation, Technology, Climate Change and Sustainability
 
Section I         Understanding Innovation and Sustainability
 
Chapter 2: Mark Dodgson – The things that matter: understanding and communicating the process and impact of innovation 
 
Chapter 3: Kevin Fox - The delayed growth impact of disruptive digital technologies:  measuring and accounting for the ‘productivity paradox’ 
 
Chapter 4: Nicholas Gruen - Entrepreneurs and start-ups in the digital age: profiles, values and paradigms
 
Chapter 5: Robert Atkinson- National innovation and competitiveness in the United States: at a strategic ‘tipping point’ -
 
Chapter 6: Roy Green - Innovation policies in Australia: the divisive politics and administration of systemic transformation
 
Chapter 7: Ross Garnaut - Efficient, effective and integrated economy-wide climate change policy: economics and politicisation  
 
Chapter 8: Warwick McKibbin - Climate change energy transition: modelling, scenarios and the political economy of ‘the tragedy of the commons’
 
Chapter 9: Sami Kara - The innovative ‘circular economy’ as a sustainable business model: design and transformation challenges
 
Section II       Climate Change and Energy Resources
 
Chapter 10: Giles Parkinson - Renewable energy development : the costs of policy uncertainty and lack of political stability
 
Chapter 11: Chris Dunstan - The National Energy Guarantee (NEG): frustrated reductions in electricity emissions and dirty party politics
 
Chapter 12: Peter Khoury - Electric Vehicles (EV): Infrastructure and policy barriers lead to laggardly diffusion and adoption 
 
Chapter 13: Sean Foley - Bitcoin, cryptocurrency and global finance industry disruption:  dirty little energy secret
 
Chapter 14: Jim Green - Small Modular Nuclear Reactors (SMRs) untried and untested: why all the political interest now?
 
Chapter 15: Tony Wood - Hydrogen-Based Economy: shipping sunshine energy to the world
 
Section III      Agriculture, Land and Water Resources
 
Chapter 16: Richard Heath - Agricultural productivity  improvement: the role of digital technologies 
 
Chapter 17: Lesley Hughes - The second domestication of dairy and beef:  Food 2.0 proteins without the animals
 
Chapter 18: Richard Beasley - Murray Darling Basin (MDB) environmental catastrophe: federalism politics and best available science
 
Chapter 19: Bruce Pascoe - Indigenous agriculture and sustainability knowledge: the great Australian silence
 
Chapter 20: Charles Massy - Regenerative agriculture: confronting industrial agriculture with farmer-led sustainability innovation
 
Section IV      Governance Roles and Responsibilities
 
Chapter 21: Michael Piore - ‘Silicon Valley Consensus’: self-fulfilling technological determinism
 
Chapter 22: Bob Carr - The business of climate change: reimagining ‘material interests’ and the corporation
 
Chapter 23: Pru Bennett - Environment, Social and Governance (ESG): harnessing capital to sustainability or just ‘woke’ and ‘greenwashing’?
 
Chapter 24: Ross Garnaut - Decarbonising & transforming the Australian economy: a game changing renewable energy opportunity
 
Chapter 25: Allan Fels - Public interest journalism: vanishing pillar for a sustainable democracy?
 
Chapter 26: Aaron Mertz and Abhilash Mishra - Public confidence in science: building trust on understanding scientific method and uncertainties
 
Chapter 27: Ray Ison – Systems-based governance: for a complex sustainable future
 
Chapter 28: Barry Jones - Political reform and public engagement:  necessary sustainable path for confronting climate change
 
Chapter 29: Conclusion - Towards Complex Systems of Governance
 
Selected Readings (Available at www.routledge/9781032248295)
Index
 

Notă biografică

Michael Lester is an independent economist, writer and radio presenter. A former public-sector executive in Australia, he has worked and lived internationally. His experience spans science, technology, innovation, environment, resources, industry, trade and investment domains. He has undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in engineering, public administration and economics.
Marie dela Rama, PhD (UTS), is an independent researcher. She participated as an accredited civil society observer in these multilateral meetings: G20 ACWG, OECD GACIF, UNCAC IRG, UN COSP9, UNGASS, UNODC ISM COSP UNGASS and UN SPT OPCAT. Her publications include The Changing Face of Corruption in the Asia Pacific (Elsevier) and Corporate Governance and Corruption (Journal of Business Ethics).

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The book offers insights into reconciling innovation with sustainability and identifying key stakeholders responsible for the reconciliation through conversations with experts in various fields. A vital resource for scholars in climate studies, that also confronts important challenges facing policymakers, government and society.