Mapping Sustainability Transitions Networks of Innovators, Techno-economic Competences and Political Discourses /

• Main Authors: Marletto, Gerardo (Author), Franceschini, Simone (Author), Ortolani, Chiara (Author), Sillig, Cécile (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Business,
• Subjects: Environment.; Energy policy.; Energy and state.; Sustainable development.; Environmental economics.; Sustainable Development.; Environmental Economics.; Energy Policy, Economics and Management.

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...

Table of Contents:

• The socio-technical approach to the study of innovation
• Networks of innovators
• From networks of innovators to sustainability transitions
• How to build a socio-technical map
• How to build alternative transition pathways
• from scenarios to action: A backcasting exercise
• Agri-food
• Urban mobility
• Lighting.