Environmental Innovation and Ecodesign : Certainties and Controversies

Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. Environmental Innovation: A Controversial Doctrine -- 1.1. Progressive conceptualization of "environmental innovation": a journey back through 40 years of controversies -- 1.1.1. Environmental concerns and innovations: the first proposals of economic theory during the 1970s -- 1.1.2. Involvement in environmental technologies and green growth in the 1980s -- 1.1.3. Diverse theoretical appropriations of the concept by economic sciences from the 1990s onwards -- 1.1.4. Conceptual beginnings and an existential crisis in environmental innovations during the 2000s -- 1.2. Critical analysis of the typology of environmental innovations -- 1.2.1. Degrees of change of environmental innovation -- 1.2.2. "End-of-pipe" technologies: a limited palliative approach to conservation of the environment? -- 1.2.3. Clean technologies, a preventive, radical and modular approach -- 1.2.4. The circular economy: Another form of systemic environmental innovation -- 1.2.5. The quest for eco-efficiency, an objective based on a productivist approach -- 1.3. Drivers of environmental innovation in the face of institutional tensions -- 1.3.1. Modifying the dominant design, thanks to transition management theory -- 1.3.2. Moving towards a specificity of technological trajectories of environmental innovations? -- 1.3.3. Creation of technical conventions promoting conservation of the environment -- 1.3.4. The rebound effect, the forgotten impacts and macrosystemic crises -- 1.4. Conclusion -- 2. Ecodesign and Technological Change: A Missed Opportunity? -- 2.1. Ecodesign and the dispute over methods -- 2.1.1. Ecodesign during the 1970s, the metronome of a new mode of development -- 2.1.2. First theorization and confrontation with reality during the course of the 1980s