Knowledge Based Innovations and Sustainable Development: Economic and Policy Insights

Tackling the challenge of global warming involves three main issues: weak vs strong sustainability in macroeconomic interdisciplinary discourse; uncertainty and irreversibility; sustainability policies (mitigation, adaptation and innovation/knowledge-based).

Three main issues are discussed in an integrated way in this paper: weak and strong sustainability as pillars of a macroeconomic interdisciplinary discourse, the role of uncertainty and irreversibility (modelling uncertainty), and finally sustainability policies including mitigation, adaptation and innovation/knowledge-based policies. These three issues will be discussed below.
As a primary step, it is important to state the necessity of sound multi–, inter–, and transdisciplinary thinking when addressing ecological, climate, and resource-based issues from a social sciences point of view.

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Massimiliano Mazzanti

Massimiliano Mazzanti is full Professor in Economic policy, University of Ferrara. He is currently director of the Department of Economics & Management, where he is lecturer in Environmental economics and policy, Ecological Economics. He has directed the inter university centre SEEDS (www.sustainability-seeds.org) since the foundation in 2012. He is also Director of the inter departmental CERCIS centre on Circular economy Innovation SMEs.

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