All Outputs (5)

Non-formal environmental education in a vulnerable region: Insights from a 20-year long engagement in Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2018)
Journal Article
Calvente, A., Kharrazi, A., Kudo, S., & Savaget, P. (2018). Non-formal environmental education in a vulnerable region: Insights from a 20-year long engagement in Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Sustainability, 10(11), Article 247. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10114247

Environmental education is essential in the diffusion of the ethics, values, and skills that are critical to sustainable transformations. This paper presents the experience of non-formal environmental education approaches held in schools in the Petró... Read More about Non-formal environmental education in a vulnerable region: Insights from a 20-year long engagement in Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Empowering Political Participation Through Artificial Intelligence (2018)
Journal Article
Savaget, P., Chiarini, T., & Evans, S. (2019). Empowering Political Participation Through Artificial Intelligence. Science and Public Policy, 46(3), 369-380. https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scy064

Technologies based on artificial intelligence (AI) can radically change the existing political paradigm, empowering more diffused forms of political participation beyond elections—especially in the emergent worldwide context of unrestricted disclosur... Read More about Empowering Political Participation Through Artificial Intelligence.

The theoretical foundations of sociotechnical systems change for sustainability: A systematic literature review (2018)
Journal Article
Savaget, P., Geissdoerfer, M., Kharrazi, A., & Evans, S. (2019). The theoretical foundations of sociotechnical systems change for sustainability: A systematic literature review. Journal of Cleaner Production, 206, 878-892. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.09.208

This paper provides a critical literature overview of the foundations of the concepts of sustainability and sociotechnical systems change. This review covers the analysis of 182 scientific articles through a combination of bibliometric analysis, snow... Read More about The theoretical foundations of sociotechnical systems change for sustainability: A systematic literature review.

Plurality in understandings of innovation, sociotechnical progress and sustainable development: An analysis of OECD expert narratives (2017)
Journal Article
Savaget, P., & Acero, L. (2018). Plurality in understandings of innovation, sociotechnical progress and sustainable development: An analysis of OECD expert narratives. Public Understanding of Science, 27(5), 611-628. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963662517695056

Deterministic theory and discourse on sociotechnical progress ignore the existence of multiple and equally viable pathways towards progress, obscure socioeconomic and environmental conflicting interests and values, and overshadow socially inclusive d... Read More about Plurality in understandings of innovation, sociotechnical progress and sustainable development: An analysis of OECD expert narratives.

The Circular Economy – A new sustainability paradigm? (2016)
Journal Article
Geissdoerfer, M., Savaget, P., Bocken, N., & Hultink, E. (2017). The Circular Economy – A new sustainability paradigm?. Journal of Cleaner Production, 143, 757-768. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.12.048

While the terms Circular Economy and sustainability are increasingly gaining traction with academia, industry, and policymakers, the similarities and differences between both concepts remain ambiguous. The relationship between the concepts is not mad... Read More about The Circular Economy – A new sustainability paradigm?.