On digitalization and sustainability transitions
This article identifies that transition scholars have devoted surprisingly little attention to digitalization. Authors’ call for theoretical and empirical work within the nexus of digitalization, sustainability, and transition research.
Read more in Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions.
Highlights:
Transition scholars devote surprisingly little attention to the sustainability of digitalization.
We call for more work on digitalization in transition studies.
We offer a number of perspectives to study the roles of digitalization in sustainability transitions.
21/10/2021
Artificial intelligence, systemic risks, and sustainability
This article offers a global overview of the progress of AI technologies in sectors with high impact potential for sustainability like farming, forestry and the extraction of marine resources.
This article is the result of collaboration across multiple affiliated institutions and is published in Technology in Society.
Publication highlights:
There is a growing interest in AI-technologies for sustainability.
Increased uses of these technologies could create new types of systemic risks.
We show a global uptake of AI-technologies in farming, forestry and marine management.
We explore gaps in principles and governance of AI from a sustainability perspective.
15/10/2021
AI in the Service of the Climate (Swedish)
This report, AI in the Service of the Climate, provides an overview of the potential of AI for the climate challenge. We also present a survey of the potential for Sweden to become an international leader in integrating AI and climate challenge strategies
The report was carried out in collaboration with swedish stakeholders including AI Sweden, RISE, and Vinnova. The report is published in Swedish with an executive summary in English and can be accessed here.
Our assessment is that there is an untapped potential for Sweden to accelerate responsible climate innovation with the help of AI, and that such an investment could give Sweden the lead internationally
A digital backlash to the planetary health diet
How a pro-meat social media campaign attacking research related to healthy diets may have influenced social media audiences
Under the research theme of ‘trolls, bots and disinformation,’ is a recently published paper in the prestigious Lancet journal, titled: ‘Understanding the digital backlash to the ‘planetary health diet’. Read the full #openaccess article here.
Publication highlights:
A digital countermovement was organized days ahead of the official launch of the EAT Lancet report.
On Twitter, negative sentiments and information surpassed balanced communication about the report.
The backlash was not driven by so called “social bots”, but by users mainly from the US, UK, Australia and Europe
