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New technologies and environmental innovation / Joseph Huber (Chair of Economic and Environmental Sociology, Martin-Luther-University, Halle, Germany)
Mitwirkende(r): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Buch (Online)Sprache: Englisch Verlag: Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2004Beschreibung: 1 Online-Ressource (384 pages) : illustrationsISBN:- 9781781957936
- 338/.064 22
- HC79.T4
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Zusammenfassung: In this insightful book, Joseph Huber investigates the life cycle analysis of technological and environmental innovations (TEIs). TEIs are new technologies, products and practices which have benign environmental effects and which can increase eco-efficiency. More importantly, they can also improve 'metabolic consistency', thus laying the foundations for a sustainable industrial ecology. The author studies a large number of TEIs from a variety of diverse fields including energy, agriculture, chemistry, biotechnology, materials re/processing, construction, vehicles and consumer goods. He finds that TEIs can offer real and sustainable solutions to almost all of today's environmental problems. However, for this to happen the author calls for a paradigm shift from 'downstream' to 'upstream' in the manufacturing chain and technologies' life cycles, and a corresponding shift in environmental policy from command-and-control regulation to coordinated innovation. By combining the sustainability approaches of 'sufficiency' and 'eco-efficiency' with the concept of 'metabolic consistency', this book opens up new horizons for ecological modernisation. It will prove valuable reading for academics and students of the social and technical sciences with an interest in environmental technology. Researchers and practitioners of industrial innovation will also gain useful insights, as will policymakers and environmental analysts in government, businesses and NGOsPPN: PPN: 1922105295Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-1-EWE | ZDB-77-EEC | ZDB-77-ECE | ZDB-1-EWE-ebook
Contents: Part I. Technological environmental innovations (teis) -- 1. Introduction: Upstreaming environmental action -- 2. Teis in discourse context -- 3. Environmental innovation discussed in more detail -- 4. Trends and visions of teis -- 5. Conclusions: Upstreaming environmental policy -- Part II. Innovation life cycle analysis -- 6. Innovation: Definitions and distinctions -- 7. The innovation life cycle -- 8. Selective dynamics: Connectivity and timeliness -- 9. Interactive dynamics: Cooperation and competition -- 10. Location matters: Regional clusters and national innovation systems -- Appendix: Systematcs of technological environmental innovations -- References -- Index.
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