The circular economy is becoming a field of experimentation to trigger site-specific
laboratories oriented towards connecting material flows and citizens' practices. Despite their …

Background The implementation of sustainability at universities means that they can also
play a key role in the transition to a low carbon economy, and in assisting global efforts …

The idea of 'Sustainability as a Real Utopia'elaborated on here adapts sociologist Erik Olin
Wright's emancipatory social science and is a heuristic informed by critical realism and …

This book critically examines 'smart city'discourse in terms of governance initiatives, citizen
participation and policies which place emphasis on the 'citizen'as an active recipient and co …

The concept of a smart city is becoming the leading paradigm worldwide. Consequently, a
creative mix of emerging technologies and open innovation is gradually becoming the …

The proliferation of smart technologies, big data, and analytics is being increasingly used to
address urban socio-environmental problems such as climate change mitigation and carbon …

Universities are under mounting pressure to partner with societal stakeholders and
organizations to collaboratively create and implement sustainability-advancing knowledge …

Due to the strong interconnectedness between the ocean and our societies worldwide,
improved ocean governance is essential for sustainable development in the context of the …

Experimentation has become a popular term amongst those interested in fostering more
sustainable social futures. But the ways in which researchers and policy makers have …

Natural laboratories (NLs) have received growing attention as sites of competitive
advantage for scientific and technological development afforded by their unique geographic …