Innovation pathways to sustainability : conversations towards complex systems of governance / edited by Michael Lester and Marie dela Rama.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 GrowthImpact 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 -- 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

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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