Session: Green economies: a business, society and policy approach
Chairs: Brita Hermelin and Grete Rusten
The paradigm of sustainable development has raised the question about the green economy and
what this involves for economic activities. The demands for conversion into ecological sustainable
production of goods and services bring challenges, opportunities and limitations across various
stages of the production systems. This session addresses how the economic activities of businesses
and organisations - in the private and public sectors - develop strategies and actions in the paradigm
of demands for increasing ecological sustainability. This involves re-organisation of production
processes and systems for supplies of services as well as development and innovations of ecofriendly
technologies, energy sources, products and services. It also involve a whole range of actors
In-house or external firm that are engaged in developing tools, giving advice, organising procedures
,evaluating and regulating sustainable developments for products and services. These recourses
involve skills and knowledge, engaging individual firms and organisations as well as network
activities. These networks can include business public-private partnerships and interactions and
relations between political bodies.
Topics on this planned session on the development of green economies and that can be included are:
*Business strategies for eco-innovation and green entrepreneurship
*Green-knowledge services
*Strategies, organisational models and processes around the formation of sustainable communities
*The role of networks, institutional settings and consumers for ecological sustainable production and
for eco-innovations
*The spatial implications of ecological sustainable production
*Sustainable mobility and transport services.
The deadline for submitting an abstract
is 15 December 2011.
Please visit the IGC 2012 website at www.igc2012.org for further details about the conference and submission.
Brita Hermelin, Stockholm University, [log in to unmask]
Grete Rusten, University of Bergen, [log in to unmask]
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