There's nowt as practical as a good theory, as we sometimes say up north. If true, this would make the University of Sussex one of the most practical places in the world about now. The sixth International Sustainability Transitions' (IST) conference (the main event of this network) is taking place over 3 and a half... Continue Reading →
All those Dialectic Issue LifeCycle Model agony aunt letters in one handy place
The Dialectic Issue LifeCycle Model (DILC) is a very cool heuristic for thinking about how some societal problems become issues, what industry does when the problems climb the political agenda, and how the issues are (or aren’t) ‘resolved’ - technological innovation (or lack thereof) in response to societal problems (car safety, local air pollution, climate change). Here’s a... Continue Reading →