Green chemistry in perspective—models for GC activities and GC policy and knowledge areas

Sjöström, Jesper

doi:10.1039/b511316d

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“…We designed a longitudinal case study and took a multi-method approach. We began by reviewing key green chemistry publications, including Anastas and Warner’s (1998) book, early journal publications by these and other early advocates, two dissertations on green chemistry policy, and a handful of scholarly articles on green chemistry patenting (Nameroff, Garant, and Albert, 2004) and history (Woodhouse and Breyman, 2005; Sjöström, 2006; Linthorst, 2010). Our review provided an overview of green chemistry, its origins, key events, and participants.…”

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“If Chemists Don’t Do It, Who Is Going To?” Peer-driven Occupational Change and the Emergence of Green Chemistry

Howard‐Grenville

Nelson

Earle

et al. 2017

Administrative Science Quarterly

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We investigate the emergence and growth of ''green chemistry''-an effort by chemists to encourage other chemists to reduce the health, safety, and environmental impacts of chemical products and processes-to explore how occupational members, absent external triggers for change, influence how their peers do their work. Using extensive interviews, archival data, and observations, we find that advocates simultaneously advanced different frames that specified the utility of making the change: (1) a normalizing frame, positioning green chemistry as consistent with mainstream chemistry innovation; (2) a moralizing frame, positioning it as an ethical imperative; and (3) a pragmatizing frame, positioning it as a tool that could help chemists tackle problems they encountered in their day-today work. Each frame resonated differently with chemists in their various occupational roles. Though this pluralistic approach generated broad acceptance of the change effort, it also exposed tensions, which threatened the coherence of the change. Advocates' diverse responses to these tensions contribute to a persistent state of pluralism and dynamism in the change effort. We uncover a process through which occupational members generate and sustain change, show how occupational heterogeneity can enable and delimit change, and show how wellmeaning efforts to ''moralize'' occupational work can heighten resistance, inhibiting the very changes that enable experts to address urgent societal problems.

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“If Chemists Don’t Do It, Who Is Going To?” Peer-driven Occupational Change and the Emergence of Green Chemistry

Howard‐Grenville

Nelson

Earle

et al. 2017

Administrative Science Quarterly

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“…But it is critical to understand that the science of green chemistry necessarily operates independently of these forces. Many scholarly studies have discussed the intersection of chemicals policy and green chemistry [23][24][25][26]. While we value these works, we recognize the need for further explanation on how these two important fields can work jointly, yet in separate ways, towards the same goals.…”

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The Science of Green Chemistry and its Role in Chemicals Policy and Educational Reform

Cannon¹,

Warner²

2011

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Over the past 10 years, the science of green chemistry has continued to evolve and has been adopted in research labs in industry and academia. At the same time, new innovations in chemicals policy have widened opportunities for legislative action to protect human health and the environment. This article addresses the mechanisms by which the science of green chemistry and chemicals policy can work together to help attain a more sustainable future. It also speaks to the pitfalls of inappropriately merging these two, and explores how such a merger could inhibit the creation of sustainable technologies. Green chemistry's role in educational reform is discussed as a means for training students who are prepared to create truly sustainable technologies.

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“…During the last decades there has been a greening of the chemical sector (Sjöström, 2006;Sjöström, Rauch & Eilks, in press). Two examples are the Green Chemistrymovement (Linthorst, 2010) and REACH -the chemicals legislation of the EU.…”

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Eco-reflexive chemical thinking and action

Sjöström

Talanquer

2018

Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry

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The modern society can be described as a globalized risk society characterised by increasing complexity and unpredictable consequences of techno-scientific innovations and production. One example is the "chemicalisation" of our society, bodies and nature. In order to manage this, society needs educated citizens who are able to understand the complexity of the world and make valuebased decisions-in both their private and professional lives. For example critical-democratic citizens-with "Bildung"-are able to value information about environmental chemicals and chemical risks. One arena with great potential for enabling critical-democratic citizenship is education. This chapter describes and problematizes teaching and learning about risk-related chemicals, such as additives, contaminants, pollution and various environmental chemicals. Such socio-chemical issues is a type of socio-scientific issues (SSI). Chemicals Education is suggested to be based on a "chemicals education triangle", with the following three corners: (1) the nature of chemical risks, (2) the interplay between actors in "the chemical society", and (3) pluralism and awareness regarding various "chemical discourses". The communication inside and outside the science/chemistry classroom about the interplay between chemistry and society can be analyzed and discussed based on such a triangle. Critical-democratic citizens need "chemicals Bildung" Chemical risks have entered the scene of mass media and popular culture. For example, early in 2013 media reported on the WHO-report "State of the Science of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals". The conclusion of the report was that the link between endocrine-disrupting chemicals and many diseases, like cancer and diabetes, is even stronger than has previously been thought (Vandenberg, 2012). This example is only one in a series of chemical alarms in recent years; others being e.g. plasticizers like phtalates and bisphenol A in baby bottles. Furthermore, several popular books and movies have been released. Examples include the books "Slow death by rubber duck: How the toxic chemistry of everyday life affects our health"

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Green chemistry in perspective—models for GC activities and GC policy and knowledge areas

Cited by 19 publications

References 39 publications

“If Chemists Don’t Do It, Who Is Going To?” Peer-driven Occupational Change and the Emergence of Green Chemistry

“If Chemists Don’t Do It, Who Is Going To?” Peer-driven Occupational Change and the Emergence of Green Chemistry

The Science of Green Chemistry and its Role in Chemicals Policy and Educational Reform

Eco-reflexive chemical thinking and action

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