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The development of electro-mobility is one of the centerpieces of European country attempts to reduce carbon emissions and increase the quality of life in cities. The goals of reducing emissions from the transport sector and phasing out fossil-fueled vehicles in (urban) transport by 2050 present unrivaled opportunities to foster electro-mobility. This paper provides a comprehensive review of the literature and provides a detailed analysis of the current development of electro-mobility in Europe, assessing social, economic, and environmental aspects under a circular economy (CE) context. It also examines the existing challenges and suggests ways of addressing them towards improving the environmental performance of electro-mobility and the urban quality of life. The paper argues that a narrow technology-only agenda in electro-mobility will be less successful without the imperative of the CE, including not just materials and resources but also energy, to unlock the medium-term co-benefits of de-carbonization of both the transport as well as the building and energy sectors. The paper critically reviews some of the anticipated future developments that may guide the growth of this rapidly growing field into a CE.
Walter Leal Filho; Ismaila Abubakar; Richard Kotter; Thomas Grindsted; Abdul-Lateef Balogun; Amanda Salvia; Yusuf Aina; Franziska Wolf. Framing Electric Mobility for Urban Sustainability in a Circular Economy Context: An Overview of the Literature. Sustainability 2021, 13, 7786 .
AMA StyleWalter Leal Filho, Ismaila Abubakar, Richard Kotter, Thomas Grindsted, Abdul-Lateef Balogun, Amanda Salvia, Yusuf Aina, Franziska Wolf. Framing Electric Mobility for Urban Sustainability in a Circular Economy Context: An Overview of the Literature. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (14):7786.
Chicago/Turabian StyleWalter Leal Filho; Ismaila Abubakar; Richard Kotter; Thomas Grindsted; Abdul-Lateef Balogun; Amanda Salvia; Yusuf Aina; Franziska Wolf. 2021. "Framing Electric Mobility for Urban Sustainability in a Circular Economy Context: An Overview of the Literature." Sustainability 13, no. 14: 7786.
The issue of creating more sustainable mobility systems has been revisited during the past 50 years. So far, we are still waiting for an innovative systemic change that is not simply an iteration of existing technologies. This standstill is to a large degree due to the hegemonic mobility paradigm, working under a “predict and provide”-driven approach, with little attention being paid to environmental and social externalities. This paper calls for a new understanding of mobility transition interlinked with the cultural values of modern societies, deeply rooted in the mobile risk society. To create sustainable mobility practices we need robust, socially coherent, and inclusive mobility systems that are more than just transportation systems and connections. The empirical starting point is a visionary workshop on designing “Sustainable Innovative Mobility Solutions” in three urban areas in Copenhagen. The workshop created a cross-disciplinary space for actors to meet across dominant silos and acknowledge the need for intervention framings to focus on innovation as a matter of interlinking sustainable mobilities practices within everyday living in a mobile risk society.
Malene Freudendal-Pedersen; Katrine Hartmann-Petersen; Freja Friis; Malene Rudolf Lindberg; Thomas Grindsted. Sustainable Mobility in the Mobile Risk Society—Designing Innovative Mobility Solutions in Copenhagen. Sustainability 2020, 12, 7218 .
AMA StyleMalene Freudendal-Pedersen, Katrine Hartmann-Petersen, Freja Friis, Malene Rudolf Lindberg, Thomas Grindsted. Sustainable Mobility in the Mobile Risk Society—Designing Innovative Mobility Solutions in Copenhagen. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (17):7218.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMalene Freudendal-Pedersen; Katrine Hartmann-Petersen; Freja Friis; Malene Rudolf Lindberg; Thomas Grindsted. 2020. "Sustainable Mobility in the Mobile Risk Society—Designing Innovative Mobility Solutions in Copenhagen." Sustainability 12, no. 17: 7218.
This paper addresses how high-frequency trading adapts to natural disasters. Stock market trades have accelerated to a rate at which shares change hands in microseconds. I examine ways in which high-frequency trading both reconfigures the dynamics of finance and changes the global financial system in different spatio-temporal ways and produces political ecologies of engagement, divergence and convergence between financial and Earth systems. Accordingly, I examine technological change and algorithmic strategies at stock exchanges. By analyzing algorithmic strategies, I investigate the connections between non-human trading and natural disasters. The analysis explains the nature of high-frequency trading strategies and market responses to three earthquakes in Japan. In the final section, I discuss how financial investment algorithms constitute a temporal informational epicenter when tectonic events are made subject to trading.
Thomas Skou Grindsted. Trading on earthquakes – Algorithmic financialization of tectonic events at global stock exchanges. Geoforum 2019, 108, 80 -87.
AMA StyleThomas Skou Grindsted. Trading on earthquakes – Algorithmic financialization of tectonic events at global stock exchanges. Geoforum. 2019; 108 ():80-87.
Chicago/Turabian StyleThomas Skou Grindsted. 2019. "Trading on earthquakes – Algorithmic financialization of tectonic events at global stock exchanges." Geoforum 108, no. : 80-87.
Thomas Skou Grindsted. Sustainability Dialogues in Higher Education Institutions (HEI). Encyclopedia of Sustainability in Higher Education 2019, 1648 -1653.
AMA StyleThomas Skou Grindsted. Sustainability Dialogues in Higher Education Institutions (HEI). Encyclopedia of Sustainability in Higher Education. 2019; ():1648-1653.
Chicago/Turabian StyleThomas Skou Grindsted. 2019. "Sustainability Dialogues in Higher Education Institutions (HEI)." Encyclopedia of Sustainability in Higher Education , no. : 1648-1653.
Thomas Skou Grindsted. Sustainability Dialogues in Higher Education Institutions (HEI). Encyclopedia of Sustainability in Higher Education 2018, 1 -6.
AMA StyleThomas Skou Grindsted. Sustainability Dialogues in Higher Education Institutions (HEI). Encyclopedia of Sustainability in Higher Education. 2018; ():1-6.
Chicago/Turabian StyleThomas Skou Grindsted. 2018. "Sustainability Dialogues in Higher Education Institutions (HEI)." Encyclopedia of Sustainability in Higher Education , no. : 1-6.
This paper addresses how high frequency trading in financial markets is increasingly discursively related to climate change and producing peculiar iterative patterns of accommodation and reinforcement of climate change. Stock market trades have accelerated at a rate at which shares change hands in microseconds. This increases the risk of systemic crises. I examine the ways in which high frequency trading both reconfigures the dynamics of finance and changes the global financial system in different spatio-temporal ways, as well as produces political ecologies of engagement, divergence, and convergence between the financial and Earth Systems. Accordingly, I examine technological change and algorithmic strategies at stock exchanges. By analyzing algorithmic strategies, I interrogate the connections between algorithms at stock exchanges and the environment, and how algorithmic financialization intersects the Anthropocene debate. The analysis explains the nature of high frequency trading strategies and market responses to natural disasters, tsunamis, typhoons, draught and wild fires. In the final section, I discuss whether algorithmic economies singularly contribute to worsening environmental crises and how financial investment algorithms may adapt to climate change.
Thomas Grindsted. Algorithms and the Antropocene: Finance, Sustainability and the Promise and Hazards of New Financial Technologies. SSRN Electronic Journal 2018, 1 .
AMA StyleThomas Grindsted. Algorithms and the Antropocene: Finance, Sustainability and the Promise and Hazards of New Financial Technologies. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2018; ():1.
Chicago/Turabian StyleThomas Grindsted. 2018. "Algorithms and the Antropocene: Finance, Sustainability and the Promise and Hazards of New Financial Technologies." SSRN Electronic Journal , no. : 1.
Thomas Skou Grindsted. Geoscience and sustainability – In between keywords and buzzwords. Geoforum 2018, 91, 57 -60.
AMA StyleThomas Skou Grindsted. Geoscience and sustainability – In between keywords and buzzwords. Geoforum. 2018; 91 ():57-60.
Chicago/Turabian StyleThomas Skou Grindsted. 2018. "Geoscience and sustainability – In between keywords and buzzwords." Geoforum 91, no. : 57-60.
Thomas Skou Grindsted. Regional planning, sustainability goals and the mitch-match between educational practice and climate, energy and business plans. Journal of Cleaner Production 2018, 171, 1681 -1690.
AMA StyleThomas Skou Grindsted. Regional planning, sustainability goals and the mitch-match between educational practice and climate, energy and business plans. Journal of Cleaner Production. 2018; 171 ():1681-1690.
Chicago/Turabian StyleThomas Skou Grindsted. 2018. "Regional planning, sustainability goals and the mitch-match between educational practice and climate, energy and business plans." Journal of Cleaner Production 171, no. : 1681-1690.
Thomas Skou Grindsted. Geographies of high frequency trading – Algorithmic capitalism and its contradictory elements. Geoforum 2016, 68, 25 -28.
AMA StyleThomas Skou Grindsted. Geographies of high frequency trading – Algorithmic capitalism and its contradictory elements. Geoforum. 2016; 68 ():25-28.
Chicago/Turabian StyleThomas Skou Grindsted. 2016. "Geographies of high frequency trading – Algorithmic capitalism and its contradictory elements." Geoforum 68, no. : 25-28.
Tove Holm; Kaisu Sammalisto; Thomas S. Grindsted; Timo Vuorisalo. Process framework for identifying sustainability aspects in university curricula and integrating education for sustainable development. Journal of Cleaner Production 2015, 106, 164 -174.
AMA StyleTove Holm, Kaisu Sammalisto, Thomas S. Grindsted, Timo Vuorisalo. Process framework for identifying sustainability aspects in university curricula and integrating education for sustainable development. Journal of Cleaner Production. 2015; 106 ():164-174.
Chicago/Turabian StyleTove Holm; Kaisu Sammalisto; Thomas S. Grindsted; Timo Vuorisalo. 2015. "Process framework for identifying sustainability aspects in university curricula and integrating education for sustainable development." Journal of Cleaner Production 106, no. : 164-174.
Thomas Skou Grindsted. Educating geographers in an era of the anthropocene: paradoxical natures – paradoxical cultures. Journal of Cleaner Production 2015, 106, 320 -329.
AMA StyleThomas Skou Grindsted. Educating geographers in an era of the anthropocene: paradoxical natures – paradoxical cultures. Journal of Cleaner Production. 2015; 106 ():320-329.
Chicago/Turabian StyleThomas Skou Grindsted. 2015. "Educating geographers in an era of the anthropocene: paradoxical natures – paradoxical cultures." Journal of Cleaner Production 106, no. : 320-329.
This dissertation engages with university geographers at work and their explication of the role of geography in shaping socio-environmental debates in an era of the anthropocene. Situating sustainability concepts in a historygeographical context the dissertation examines responses and responsibilities concerning academic fights over representing global environmental change. A major part concerns the theoretical basis and draws inspiration from a series of critical geographical work on the marketization of universities, and relates this tincture to the wider education for sustainability in higher education literature. The methodological framework is based on the social nature approach that tangles these quite distinct epistemological communities by consulting the socio-natures produced. It is concluded that though geographers find sustainability themes important to geography, sustainability is more often implicit than it is explicit. This produces a number of dilemmas and contradictions since geographers both seek to distance themselves from produced politics while at the same time elucidating them. Geographies of response and responsibilities address the battleground over the reading and writing of global environmental change.
Thomas Skou Grindsted. Responsible Geographies and Geographies of Response - Educating Geographers in an Era of the Anthropocene. SSRN Electronic Journal 2015, 1 .
AMA StyleThomas Skou Grindsted. Responsible Geographies and Geographies of Response - Educating Geographers in an Era of the Anthropocene. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2015; ():1.
Chicago/Turabian StyleThomas Skou Grindsted. 2015. "Responsible Geographies and Geographies of Response - Educating Geographers in an Era of the Anthropocene." SSRN Electronic Journal , no. : 1.
Geographical imaginations are absolutely vital to make sense of sustainability challenges. Yet, a number of studies reveal that geography education has been slow in integrating issues of sustainability into curricula. Geography is particularly interesting in the context of ESD, due to its tradition of investigating human-environment interactions. In this paper we aim to contribute to this particular field of knowledge by providing an empirical analysis of ESD in Danish University Geography. In this paper it is examined how programs in Geography in higher education have taken different approaches to addressing issues of sustainability. Then, it is examined how geographers articulate their role and function as to addressing issues of sustainability. It is concluded that, though geographers generally are reluctant with using the concept of sustainability, and find it better serves as an implicit notion, geographers’ find their discipline contributes considerably to ESD in three ways. First, geography’s strong tradition in the human-environment theme provides a methodological basis for dealing with issues of sustainability. Second, the spatio-temporal dimensions of sustainability call for geographical approaches to be able to understand the dynamics, complexity and interactions in various scales. Third, geographers find their discipline provides an integrative knowledge platform between the natural and social sciences.
Thomas Skou Grindsted. The Matter of Geography in Education for Sustainable Development: The Case of Danish University Geography. World Sustainability Series 2014, 13 -24.
AMA StyleThomas Skou Grindsted. The Matter of Geography in Education for Sustainable Development: The Case of Danish University Geography. World Sustainability Series. 2014; ():13-24.
Chicago/Turabian StyleThomas Skou Grindsted. 2014. "The Matter of Geography in Education for Sustainable Development: The Case of Danish University Geography." World Sustainability Series , no. : 13-24.
The discipline of Geography may be one of the most prominent and oldest disciplines in the conceptualization of human–environment interactions that integrates elements from both natural and social sciences. Yet, much research on society–environment interactions on climate change reduces human behaviour to economic rationality when construed in sophisticated climate models and sometimes in non-geographical representations. The need to comprehensively take into consideration methodological approaches concerning the interface of society-environment interactions seems highly relevant to contemporary conceptual modelling of climate change adaption and mitigation. In other words, geographical representations do matter. In the following we will first reflect upon what I shall call spatio-temporal tides and waves of the human environment theme to examine the methodological grounds on which climate change models is based. From a history-geographical perspective the article shows that notions of objective models are increasingly challenged in an era of the anthropocene. It points toward a discussion of interdisciplinary challenges and the ways in which different traditions interpret and explain regularities, rationalities, and pre-analytic assumptions. Lastly we discuss challenges of constructing nature(s) and how we better understand the (geo) politics of climate change modeling.
Thomas Skou Grindsted. What Can Human Geography Offer Climate Change Modelling? COVID-19 Pandemic Trajectory in the Developing World 2014, 223 -241.
AMA StyleThomas Skou Grindsted. What Can Human Geography Offer Climate Change Modelling? COVID-19 Pandemic Trajectory in the Developing World. 2014; ():223-241.
Chicago/Turabian StyleThomas Skou Grindsted. 2014. "What Can Human Geography Offer Climate Change Modelling?" COVID-19 Pandemic Trajectory in the Developing World , no. : 223-241.
Declarations on Sustainability in Higher Education (SHE) have grown in number and significance over the last decade. SHE declarations can be viewed as a piece of non binding international regulation that shapes universities’ pioneering role in ensuring sustainable development. Examination of the international SHE literature reveals no study that deals specifically with the interaction between declarations developed by the university sector and declarations developed by governmental and intergovernmental institutions. An analysis of this type can give us important insights in what themes these parties think should be given top priority in order to develop a sustainable society. Hence, the article addresses the following issues: (1) a thematic analysis of the relation between declarations developed by the university sector and those developed by governmental and intergovernmental institutions; (2) an analysis of themes the two types of declarations might have in common; and if so (3) an analysis of how they have developed during the past decade. The article finds four new themes that previous research has not identified, and shows how the valuation of nature is under reconfiguration in higher education policy.
Thomas Skou Grindsted; Tove Holm. Thematic Development of Declarations on Sustainability in Higher Education. SSRN Electronic Journal 2012, 1 .
AMA StyleThomas Skou Grindsted, Tove Holm. Thematic Development of Declarations on Sustainability in Higher Education. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2012; ():1.
Chicago/Turabian StyleThomas Skou Grindsted; Tove Holm. 2012. "Thematic Development of Declarations on Sustainability in Higher Education." SSRN Electronic Journal , no. : 1.
Thomas Skou Grindsted. Sustainable Universities From Declarations on Sustainability in Higher Education to National Law. SSRN Electronic Journal 2011, 1 .
AMA StyleThomas Skou Grindsted. Sustainable Universities From Declarations on Sustainability in Higher Education to National Law. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2011; ():1.
Chicago/Turabian StyleThomas Skou Grindsted. 2011. "Sustainable Universities From Declarations on Sustainability in Higher Education to National Law." SSRN Electronic Journal , no. : 1.