TABLE OF CONTENTS

List of Acronyms

The Interviewees

Chapter 1: Introduction - Exploring the Opportunities and Challenges Of Innovation, Technology, Climate Change and Sustainability

Section I Understanding Innovation and Sustainability

Chapter 2: Mark Dodgson ? The things that matter: understanding and communicating the process and impact of innovation

Chapter 3: Kevin Fox - The delayed growth impact of disruptive digital technologies: measuring and accounting for the ‘productivity paradox’

Chapter 4: Nicholas Gruen - Entrepreneurs and start-ups in the digital age: profiles, values and paradigms

Chapter 5: Robert Atkinson- National innovation and competitiveness in the United States: at a strategic ‘tipping point’ -

Chapter 6: Roy Green - Innovation policies in Australia: the divisive politics and administration of systemic transformation

Chapter 7: Ross Garnaut - Efficient, effective and integrated economy-wide climate change policy: economics and politicisation

Chapter 8: Warwick McKibbin - Climate change energy transition: modelling, scenarios and the political economy of ‘the tragedy of the commons’

Chapter 9: Sami Kara - The innovative ‘circular economy’ as a sustainable business model: design and transformation challenges

Section II Climate Change and Energy Resources

Chapter 10: Giles Parkinson - Renewable energy development : the costs of policy uncertainty and lack of political stability

Chapter 11: Chris Dunstan - The National Energy Guarantee (NEG): frustrated reductions in electricity emissions and dirty party politics

Chapter 12: Peter Khoury - Electric Vehicles (EV): Infrastructure and policy barriers lead to laggardly diffusion and adoption

Chapter 13: Sean Foley - Bitcoin, cryptocurrency and global finance industry disruption: dirty little energy secret

Chapter 14: Jim Green - Small Modular Nuclear Reactors (SMRs) untried and untested: why all the political interest now?

Chapter 15: Tony Wood - Hydrogen-Based Economy: shipping sunshine energy to the world

Section III Agriculture, Land and Water Resources

Chapter 16: Richard Heath - Agricultural productivity improvement: the role of digital technologies

Chapter 17: Lesley Hughes - The second domestication of dairy and beef: Food
2.0 proteins without the animals

Chapter 18: Richard Beasley - Murray Darling Basin (MDB) environmental catastrophe: federalism politics and best available science

Chapter 19: Bruce Pascoe - Indigenous agriculture and sustainability knowledge: the great Australian silence

Chapter 20: Charles Massy - Regenerative agriculture: confronting industrial agriculture with farmer-led sustainability innovation

Section IV Governance Roles and Responsibilities

Chapter 21: Michael Piore - ‘Silicon Valley Consensus’: self-fulfilling technological determinism

Chapter 22: Bob Carr - The business of climate change: reimagining ‘material interests’ and the corporation

Chapter 23: Pru Bennett - Environment, Social and Governance (ESG): harnessing capital to sustainability or just ‘woke’ and ‘greenwashing’?

Chapter 24: Ross Garnaut - Decarbonising & transforming the Australian economy: a game changing renewable energy opportunity

Chapter 25: Allan Fels - Public interest journalism: vanishing pillar for a sustainable democracy?

Chapter 26: Aaron Mertz and Abhilash Mishra - Public confidence in science: building trust on understanding scientific method and uncertainties

Chapter 27: Ray Ison ? Systems-based governance: for a complex sustainable future

Chapter 28: Barry Jones - Political reform and public engagement: necessary sustainable path for confronting climate change

Chapter 29: Conclusion - Towards Complex Systems of Governance

Selected Readings (Available at )

Index