Special Issue "Innovation and Environmental Sustainability"
QuicklinksA special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2011)
Special Issue Editor
Guest Editor
Prof. Dr. Bart A.G. Bossink
Management of Technology & Innovation for Sustainability, VU University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Department of Management and Organization, De Boelelaan 1105, Room 3A-32, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Website: http://staff.feweb.vu.nl/bbossink
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Interests: environmentally sustainable innovation; sustainable construction; environmental design; environmental policy
Published Papers
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Editorial objectives and coverage of this special issue:
The special issue contributes to theory building, evaluation and testing in the field of environmentally sustainable innovation management in business by means of theory driven and empirically based business research.
The special issue publishes studies that focus on analytical generalization and statistical generalization, on qualitative and quantitative research methods, and on theory building and theory testing.
Who should react:
Scholars conducting business research in environmentally sustainable
innovation management in business.
Key research areas covered in the special issue:
- Individual leadership/championship for environmentally sustainable innovation in organizations
- Environmentally sustainable innovation processes in organizations
- Organization and organizational forms for environmentally sustainable innovation
- Environmentally sustainable innovation strategies for organizations
- Inter-organizational cooperation for environmentally sustainable innovation
- Business networks for environmentally sustainable innovation
- National systems of environmentally sustainable innovation
Prof. Dr. Bart A.G. Bossink
Guest Editor
Submission
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Keywords
- innovation
- management
- change
- sustainability
- environment
- green
- business
Planned Papers
Type of Paper: Review
Title: The Importance of Innovation for Sustainable Development
Authors: Michael von Hauff 1, Ortwin Renn 2, Peter A. Wilderer 3
Affiliations: 1 Institute of Macro Economy, University of Kaiserslautern, Postfach 3049, 67653 Kaiserslautern, Germany; E-Mail: hauff@wiwi.uni-kl.de
2 Institute of Social Sciences, University of Stuttgart, Postfach 10 60 37, 70049 Stuttgart, Germany; E-Mail: ortwin.renn@soz.uni-stuttgart.de
3 Institute for Advanced Study, Technical University of Munich, Arcisstrasse 21, 80333 München, Germany; E-Mail: peter.wilderer@mytum.de
Abstract: Innovation is desirable from an engineering, economic and societal perspective as well as in the interests of sustainable development. Nevertheless, each of these perspectives stresses the importance of innovation for vastly different reasons. From the economic perspective innovation is considered advantageous as long as it delivers market advantages and contributes to economic growth. However, from the perspective of sustainable development innovation should not only benefit the economic but also the ecological and social dimension. All three dimensions need to be addressed when evaluating the effects of innovations in technology, organization or regulation. Within the literature on sustainable innovation the focus has been on the ecological impacts. The chief concern has been the progress in environmental engineering or eco-modernization. However, this focus is as narrow as the purely economic perspective. We rather need a new approach that links innovative behavior and technological change to an integrated concept of all three dimensions by studying the interactions between long term social, ecological and economic impacts. In this paper the general challenges for developing such an integrated concept of sustainable innovation are presented, discussed and summarized.
Author: Zhenghong Tang
Affiliation: Landscape Architecture + Community and Regional Planning, 313 Architecture Hall, College of Architecture, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588-0105, USA; E-Mail: ztang2@unl.edu
Abstract: Community-based natural resources management (CBNRM) is increasingly perceived as a bottom-up alternative approach to the traditional top-down rational model of local environmental conservation planning. Although many studies have discussed the effectiveness of these two models in environmental planning, little research has been done to empirically determine the influence of these two principles on local environmental conservation planning. This study analyzes 54 cities’ local environmental conservation plans to quantitatively measure the conceptual plan components, then uses regression models to detect the factors influencing local environmental conservation plan quality. Descriptive results indicate that local plans have a relatively low awareness of strategic-level conservation items, a medium level of analysis for regional conservation items, and a high level of community-based conservation efforts. Regression results further highlight that the governance capacity has significant influence on local environmental conservation plan quality; however, the community-based participation capacity was not statistically significant.
Last update: 4 April 2011