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Transition Governance and Networks: Enabling Systemic Change
1. Core Concept: Governance ≠ Control Transitions are emergent and contested, not centrally mana...
Why Sustainability Transitions Go Beyond Technology
1. Core Insight Technological change is necessary but not sufficient for sustainability transit...
Understanding the Multi-Level Perspective (MLP) for Sustainability Transitions
1. What is the Multi-Level Perspective (MLP)? A core analytical framework used to understand how...
The Growth and Significance of Sustainability Transitions Research
1. Defining the Field Sustainability Transitions (not "sustainable transitions"): Focuses on e...
Sustainability Transitions: Systemic Change for a Sustainable Future
1. What is a Sustainability Transition? A sustainability transition is a fundamental shift in the...
ESG Credibility, Ratings, and Greenwashing: Key Concepts and Challenges
1. Importance of ESG Ratings ESG scores, climate rankings, and sustainability indices help inves...
Corporate Sustainability Metrics and Reporting: Frameworks, Claims, and Critiques
1. Why Companies Report on Sustainability Drivers: Stakeholder Pressure: Customers, investors, ...
Carbon Credits and Offsets: Global Mechanisms and India’s Reality
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Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES): Case Studies from India
1. Case Study 1: Mahogany Project in Bastar (MVAPL) Overview: Project Type: Agroforestry with f...
Measuring Sustainability: Indicators, Indices, and Ecosystem Services
1. Sustainability Indicators (The "Thermometers") Indicators are specific, numerical metrics that...
The Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC): Hope or Illusion?
1. What is the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC)? Origin: Proposed by economist Simon Kuznets (...
Measuring Sustainability: Evolution of Metrics, Frameworks, and Challenges
1. Why Measure Sustainability? Management Principle: “What gets measured gets managed” Account...
Reimagining Urban Waste: Toward Circular Cities in India
1. Promising Models Across Indian Cities A. Swach Pune Cooperative Scale: 3000+ waste pickers ...
Case Study: Saahas Zero Waste – A Circular Economy Model in Action
1. Overview Founder: Wilma Rodrigues (former journalist and tour guide) Origin: Started as an ...
Urban Waste Management in India: Challenges, Systems, and Solutions
1. Scale of the Problem Daily Waste Generation: 145,000 tons (14,500 truckloads) Collection & ...
Rural-Urban Linkages: The Stubble Burning Dilemma
1. What is Stubble Burning? Definition: Burning of crop residue (straw/stubble) after harvest ...
Citizen and City-Led Responses to Air Pollution in India
1. Smart Governance & Data-Driven Approaches Mumbai’s Air Quality Forecasting: Tool: SAFAR (Sys...
Delhi’s Air Pollution Crisis: Causes, Responses, and Lessons
1. The Scale of the Problem Global and National Context: 13 of the top 20 most polluted cities ...
Air Pollution: Sources, Impacts, and the Sustainability Challenge
1. The Lockdown Lesson: Clean Air is Possible During COVID-19 lockdown (2020), air pollution dro...
Sectoral Digital Public Infrastructures (DPIs): Agriculture, Health & Water Stacks
1. What are Sectoral DPIs? Sectoral DPIs are domain-specific digital infrastructures built on top...