Second-order sustainability—conditions for the development of sustainable innovations in a dynamic environment

Sartorius, Christian

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2005.07.010

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“…social sustainability), and (3) the interest in an intact natural environment that is capable of supporting the needs of future generations (i.e. ecological sustainability) (Sartorius, 2006;Ledoux et al, 2005). First order state reflects only economic, social, or environmental issues separately.…”

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A Model for Incorporated Measurement of Sustainable Development Comprising Remote Sensing Data and Using the Concept of Biodiversity

Petrosyan¹

2010

JSD

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The central point of the paper is on concern of how to utilize indicators to observe sustainable development in an applicable and valuable way. The aim of the work was to propose a model for achieving a composite sustainable development index using the concept of Biodiversity in order to track incorporated information on social, economic and environmental dimension of the municipality with time periods, according to: 1) Social (Population); 2) Economic (Agriculture, Tourism, Agricultural Goods and Industry); 3) Environmental (output of remote sensing data using Fragstat software). An attractive approach is suggested for the environmental dimension. The calculated metrics become an input to the model like Environmental Indicators. In addition, the concepts of Biodiversity are kept for Environmental Indicators in the following way: Ecosystem = Landscape Level and Species = Class Level. Finally, the results, discussions and conclusions are provided for each existing theme, each dimension and CSDI.

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A Model for Incorporated Measurement of Sustainable Development Comprising Remote Sensing Data and Using the Concept of Biodiversity

Petrosyan¹

2010

JSD

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“…This paper shows the possibility to previous literatures which have been focused on the external factors as influencing factors to promote socio-technical system innovation [7]- [13]. Making the situation such as having the organizational system for sharing information and creating the internal environment which make firms to concentrate on system development would be important for sharing information on socio-technical system development and promoting demonstration test.…”

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“…About the organizational form that constructs new relationships among firms and promote information sharing, previous literatures verified that it to be comprised of multiple levels hierarchies, and that cooperation among firms is required [9]- [13]. Though, these literatures are about the phase of the introduction and diffusion of socio-technical systems and not only the organizational structure for information sharing, it needs factors that promote information sharing.…”

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“…Existing literatures on the introduction and diffusion of socio-technical systems argued that for promoting the socio-technical system innovation, changing the stakeholders relationship originated in the multi-level hierarchies and the government supports are required [7], [9]- [13]. Moreover they assumed that the socio-technical system is already developed to introduce and diffuse.…”

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Information Sharing in Socio-Technical System Demonstration Tests: Using Smart Grid System Demonstration Tests in Japan

Koh¹

2014

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Abstract-This paper clarifies processes for promoting information sharing about results of socio-technical systems demonstration test which is conducted by firms who have different interest. By examining a smart grid system demonstration test in Kansai Science and Yokohama Cities in Japan, this paper has two major findings.First, information sharing among firms on demonstration tests as a whole project has been promoted by the Project Promotion Council of the demonstration test which is coordinated by the regional government of the demonstration test area.Second, in addition to the endeavor of firms who participated in demonstration test, the regional government of the demonstration test area works as a coordinator to promote information sharing between firms who participated in demonstration test and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) of Japan who subsidize two-thirds of the demonstration test budget.What became evident through this case study is for promoting information sharing among firms who have different interest should be consider establishing the information sharing organizational system and putting the regional government of the demonstration area as a coordinator on demonstration phase.Index Terms-Information sharing among firms, smart grid system, socio-technical system, role of the regional government of the demonstration test area.

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“…The steps are to (1) understand the principle of sustainability, (2) locate unsustainable processes and determine the gain in changing them, (3) form a vision of how to change them by ''backcasting'' from the final goal and (4) identify a series of paths leading to that goal, then pick a path. We will attempt to follow these steps while acknowledging that it is difficult to control the evolutionary paths of complex systems because, among other reasons, technological evolution is particularly affected by lock-in and path dependence (Sartorius 2006 The Design House will navigate and coordinate these four processes with its two functional units, the Scenario Unit and the Strategy Unit, working on steps (3) and (4) respectively, while the Design House as a whole will focus on steps (1) and (2) as its main agenda. In other words, while the Scenario Unit will mainly focus on making future sustainable society projections and on setting technology development targets, the Strategy Unit will handle the management of R&D with a focus on the scientific features of the targeted technologies.…”

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The pathway to a sustainable industrial society – initiative of the Research Institute for Sustainability Science (RISS) at Osaka University

2006

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While it is widely known that sustainable development is the only sound and viable pathway for humankind's future, its attainment remains elusive despite intensive efforts and some successes. The current industrial society approach based on product and process innovation in a variety of fields is not providing the expected results in addressing this important issue. In an attempt to carry out this unavoidable task, Osaka University's Research Institute for Sustainability Science (RISS) introduces an integral and dynamic innovation system where technology plays a key role in fulfilling societal functions. This innovation system adopts a highly solution-driven approach that makes use of backcasting techniques based on long-term visions and mid-term strategic goals. Since technology management is the key to propelling effective innovation towards sustainability, we propose a technology transition management through the interaction of technology push, demand pull and institutional design, along with eight transition principles. RISS will develop this innovation system based on these three components and through the design of dynamic scenarios and their roadmaps.

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Second-order sustainability—conditions for the development of sustainable innovations in a dynamic environment

Cited by 58 publications

References 21 publications

A Model for Incorporated Measurement of Sustainable Development Comprising Remote Sensing Data and Using the Concept of Biodiversity

A Model for Incorporated Measurement of Sustainable Development Comprising Remote Sensing Data and Using the Concept of Biodiversity

Information Sharing in Socio-Technical System Demonstration Tests: Using Smart Grid System Demonstration Tests in Japan

The pathway to a sustainable industrial society – initiative of the Research Institute for Sustainability Science (RISS) at Osaka University

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