UID:
edoccha_9961615113402883
Format:
1 online resource (377 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-003-28031-5
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1-04-014411-X
Series Statement:
Routledge Frontiers of Business Management Series
Content:
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.
Note:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- The Interviewees -- Foreword -- Preface -- List of Acronyms -- 1 Introduction: Exploring the Opportunities and Challenges of Innovation, Technology, Climate Change and Sustainability -- Section I Understanding Innovation and Sustainability -- 2 The Things That Matter: Understanding and Communicating the Process and Impact of Innovation -- 3 The Delayed Growth Impact of Disruptive Digital Technologies: Measuring and Accounting for the 'Productivity Paradox' -- 4 Entrepreneurs and Start-ups in the Digital Age: Profiles, Values and Paradigms -- 5 National Innovation and Competitiveness in the United States: At a Strategic 'Tipping Point' -- 6 Innovation Policies in Australia: The Divisive Politics and Administration of Systemic Transformation -- 7 Efficient, Effective and Integrated Economy-Wide Climate Change Policy: Economics and Politicisation -- 8 Climate Change Energy Transition: Modelling, Scenarios and the Political Economy of the 'Tragedy of the Commons' -- 9 The Innovative 'Circular Economy' as a Sustainable Business Model: Design and Transformation Challenges -- Section II Climate Change and Energy Resources -- 10 Renewable Energy Development: The Costs of Policy Uncertainty and Lack of Political Stability -- 11 The National Energy Guarantee (NEG): Frustrated Reductions in Electricity Emissions and Dirty Party Politics -- 12 Electric Vehicles (EV): Infrastructure and Policy Barriers Lead to Laggardly Diffusion and Adoption -- 13 Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency and Global Finance Industry Disruption: Dirty Little Energy Secret -- 14 Small Modular Nuclear Reactors (SMRs) Untried and Untested: Why All the Political Interest Now? -- 15 Hydrogen-Based Economy: Shipping Sunshine to the World -- Section III Agriculture, Land and Water Resources.
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16 Agricultural Productivity Improvement: The Role of Digital Technologies -- 17 The Second Domestication of Dairy and Beef: Food 2.0 Proteins Without the Animals -- 18 The Murray-Darling Basin Environmental Catastrophe: Federalism Politics and Best Available Science -- 19 Indigenous Agriculture and Sustainability Knowledge: The Great Australian Silence -- 20 Regenerative Agriculture: Confronting Industrial Agriculture With Farmer-Led Sustainability Innovation -- Section IV Governance Roles and Responsibilities -- 21 Silicon Valley Consensus: Self-fulfilling Technological Determinism -- 22 The Business of Climate Change: Reimagining 'Material Interests' - And the Corporation -- 23 Environment, Social and Governance (ESG): Harnessing Capital to Sustainability or Just 'Woke' and 'Greenwashing'? -- 24 Decarbonising and Transforming the Australian Economy: A Game-Changing Renewable Energy Opportunity -- 25 Public Interest Journalism: Vanishing Pillar for a Sustainable Democracy? -- 26 Public Confidence in Science: Building Trust on Understanding Scientific Method and Uncertainties -- 27 Systems-Based Governance: For a Complex Sustainable Future -- 28 Political Reform and Public Engagement: Necessary Sustainable Path for Confronting Climate Change -- 29 Conclusion: Towards Complex Systems of Governance -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-03-224829-7
Language:
English
