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Dr. Udo Pesch
Department of Values, Technology and Innovation, Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology, PO Box 5015, 2600 GA Delft, Netherlands

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Book review
Published: 04 May 2021 in Science and Engineering Ethics
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Udo Pesch. The Ethical Challenges of Innovation. Science and Engineering Ethics 2021, 27, 1 -3.

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Udo Pesch. The Ethical Challenges of Innovation. Science and Engineering Ethics. 2021; 27 (3):1-3.

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Udo Pesch. 2021. "The Ethical Challenges of Innovation." Science and Engineering Ethics 27, no. 3: 1-3.

Research article
Published: 09 April 2021 in Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy
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This paper examines the intrinsic relation between institutions and social justice. Its starting point is that processes of institutionalization invoke societal groups to articulate justice demands which, in their turn, give rise to processes of institutional redesign. In liberal democracies, demands for justice are articulated as a pursuit for emancipation and empowerment of groups that feel excluded by dominant categorizations. The imminent presence of this twin pursuit for justice can be explained by the conceptual inconsistencies that characterize the distinction between the public and private sphere. These inconsistencies also explain why demands for emancipation and empowerment are intrinsically ambiguous and inconsistent. In order to reconsider the question how institutions are to be adapted to allow for social justice while acknowledging the plurality, ambiguity and volatility of justice demands, the paper will propose an empirical and normative research agenda.

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Udo Pesch. Institutions of justice and intuitions of fairness: contesting goods, rules and inequalities. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 2021, 1 -14.

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Udo Pesch. Institutions of justice and intuitions of fairness: contesting goods, rules and inequalities. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy. 2021; ():1-14.

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Udo Pesch. 2021. "Institutions of justice and intuitions of fairness: contesting goods, rules and inequalities." Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy , no. : 1-14.

Journal article
Published: 13 March 2021 in Science and Public Policy
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New technologies will have a big impact on our public life-world, suggesting that it is necessary to have a public debate on innovation. Such a debate is missing: instead of having a debate on the process of technology development, only expected effects of new technologies are discussed. This is undesirable as innovation processes recruit implicit normative assumptions that should be opened up for public scrutiny. This article aims to outline conditions and possibilities for organizing such public debates on innovation. It will do so by depicting innovations as wilful metamorphoses which materialize worldviews and expectations entertained by technology developers. Existing technology assessment organizations could instigate discussions on the desirability and credibility of these worldviews and expectations, so as to further democratize the process of technology development.

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Udo Pesch. Imaginaries of innovation: Turning technology development into a public issue. Science and Public Policy 2021, 48, 257 -264.

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Udo Pesch. Imaginaries of innovation: Turning technology development into a public issue. Science and Public Policy. 2021; 48 (2):257-264.

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Udo Pesch. 2021. "Imaginaries of innovation: Turning technology development into a public issue." Science and Public Policy 48, no. 2: 257-264.

Journal article
Published: 10 March 2021 in Travel Behaviour and Society
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The objective of this study is to identify factors that influence actual electric vehicle (EV) drivers’ acceptance of Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) charging. The study takes a qualitative approach in order to provide insight into actual EV users’ perceptions of V2G technology and their underlying motivation to accept or not accept V2G. The Theory of Planned Behaviour is adopted to create a basic conceptual model of the potential factors influencing users’ acceptance of V2G. Twenty semi-structured interviews are conducted among Dutch EV drivers, including both regular EV drivers, as well as participants who had previously taken part in V2G projects. The factors that are found to be most important for fostering acceptance are financial compensation, transparent communication and reliable control of the system by the user. On the other hand, the factors that are found to have a negative effect on acceptance are range anxiety, discomfort experienced while participating and battery degradation. Our study shows that the majority of our interview participants accept V2G albeit with some reservations and caution. As EVs and V2G are new technologies, our sample of twenty actual EV users consists of early adopters. As such, their attitudes may not reflect those of the majority of future users. However, our study suggests that there are EV users who are willing to use V2G charge points and will continue to do so. The reasons behind such user acceptance are further described in the study together with additional insights and ideas for future research.

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Koen van Heuveln; Rishabh Ghotge; Jan Anne Annema; Esther van Bergen; Bert van Wee; Udo Pesch. Factors influencing consumer acceptance of vehicle-to-grid by electric vehicle drivers in the Netherlands. Travel Behaviour and Society 2021, 24, 34 -45.

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Koen van Heuveln, Rishabh Ghotge, Jan Anne Annema, Esther van Bergen, Bert van Wee, Udo Pesch. Factors influencing consumer acceptance of vehicle-to-grid by electric vehicle drivers in the Netherlands. Travel Behaviour and Society. 2021; 24 ():34-45.

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Koen van Heuveln; Rishabh Ghotge; Jan Anne Annema; Esther van Bergen; Bert van Wee; Udo Pesch. 2021. "Factors influencing consumer acceptance of vehicle-to-grid by electric vehicle drivers in the Netherlands." Travel Behaviour and Society 24, no. : 34-45.

Chapter
Published: 26 January 2021 in Philosophy of Engineering and Technology
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This paper describes how particular normative dimensions have become embedded in public space. It identifies four periods of urban history, starting with that of the liberal city which introduces a heterogeneous set of liberal and democratic values. The sanitary city of the nineteenth century came to depict public space as a system of flows that needed to managed. The twentieth century rational city endorsed functionality and efficiency as key values, as manifested in modernist architecture and neo-liberal policies. Recently the experimental city emerged, in which digital technologies give rise to ‘smart’ systems, but also to new forms of civic engagement. It is argued that the experimental city needs to accommodate the normative dimensions of public space developed in preceding historical periods, which necessitates that conflicts between these dimensions need to subjected to democratic trade-off processes.

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Udo Pesch. From Liberalism to Experimentation: Reconstructing the Dimensions of Public Space. Philosophy of Engineering and Technology 2021, 291 -317.

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Udo Pesch. From Liberalism to Experimentation: Reconstructing the Dimensions of Public Space. Philosophy of Engineering and Technology. 2021; ():291-317.

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Udo Pesch. 2021. "From Liberalism to Experimentation: Reconstructing the Dimensions of Public Space." Philosophy of Engineering and Technology , no. : 291-317.

Journal article
Published: 05 January 2021 in Technological Forecasting and Social Change
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MSocial Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA) uses a life cycle perspective to assess social impacts of products, and the S-LCA guidelines describe developing the system boundaries based on a factory-level perspective. However, such a perspective may exclude stakeholders with a negative social performance which are cooperating with a factory but are not directly involved with the product under study, and it can result in a step back on corporate social responsibility (CSR). Our study aimed to align S-LCA with the CSR concept. Therefore, we designed a case study for the manufacturing sector in which we practiced expanding the system boundaries of S-LCA. Our results showed larger social risks after expanding the system boundaries due to subsidiary and supplier companies located in countries with less strict regulations than the Netherlands, which is where the main organizations and parent company existed. We conclude that system boundaries expansion can result in more complete picture of the involved organizations, and lead practitioners to approach S-LCA with the goal of improving social conditions and identify companies which deserve excellent or poor social scores. Its usefulness is mostly expected when S-LCA practitioners aim to identify social hotspots in supply chains in socially sensitive markets.

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Georgios Archimidis Tsalidis; Elena de Santo; Jose Jorge Espí Gallart; Joan Berzosa Corberá; Frederic Clarens Blanco; Udo Pesch; Gijsbert Korevaar. Developing social life cycle assessment based on corporate social responsibility: A chemical process industry case regarding human rights. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 2021, 165, 120564 .

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Georgios Archimidis Tsalidis, Elena de Santo, Jose Jorge Espí Gallart, Joan Berzosa Corberá, Frederic Clarens Blanco, Udo Pesch, Gijsbert Korevaar. Developing social life cycle assessment based on corporate social responsibility: A chemical process industry case regarding human rights. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 2021; 165 ():120564.

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Georgios Archimidis Tsalidis; Elena de Santo; Jose Jorge Espí Gallart; Joan Berzosa Corberá; Frederic Clarens Blanco; Udo Pesch; Gijsbert Korevaar. 2021. "Developing social life cycle assessment based on corporate social responsibility: A chemical process industry case regarding human rights." Technological Forecasting and Social Change 165, no. : 120564.

Journal article
Published: 17 December 2020 in She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation
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In this article, we posit designerly thinking as a family of design approaches that some believe are able to effectively respond to wicked problems. We will scrutinize this premise by revisiting Horst Rittel and Melvin Webber’s 1973 article in which the notion of wicked problems was originally introduced. In it, Rittel and Webber note the emergence of a general sense of distrust in professionals in the 1960s and interpret it as a loss of confidence in the then leading approach to addressing societal problems: systems-based planning. Rittel and Webber formulated three dilemmas that societal problems pose, of which the second is their wickedness, and argued that planning does not resolve these dilemmas. In the 2010s, an emerging distrust in professionals has arisen once more, raising the question of whether designerly thinking is equipped to address societal issues. Our review and discussion of Rittel and Webber’s three dilemmas reveals that designerly thinking currently does not resolve any of them, as there can always be groups that will oppose certain solutions. We argue that designerly thinking cannot overcome societal pluralism, but that designers can and should interpret social distrust as an invitation to discuss the consequences and their societal equity.

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Pieter E. Vermaas; Udo Pesch. Revisiting Rittel and Webber’s Dilemmas: Designerly Thinking Against the Background of New Societal Distrust. She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation 2020, 6, 530 -545.

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Pieter E. Vermaas, Udo Pesch. Revisiting Rittel and Webber’s Dilemmas: Designerly Thinking Against the Background of New Societal Distrust. She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation. 2020; 6 (4):530-545.

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Pieter E. Vermaas; Udo Pesch. 2020. "Revisiting Rittel and Webber’s Dilemmas: Designerly Thinking Against the Background of New Societal Distrust." She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation 6, no. 4: 530-545.

Research article
Published: 03 July 2020 in Administration & Society
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Rittel and Webber connected their notion of “wicked problems” to three fundamental planning dilemmas. Many approaches within public administration theory have explicitly addressed wicked problems yet hardly paid attention to the dilemmas. We revisit the planning dilemmas to find out their potential relevance for current administration theory and practice. We argue that the dilemmas evolve out of the current institutional setup, meaning that wicked problems cannot be resolved by better administrative frameworks or methods. Rather societal matters are to be included in decision-making, for instance, by seeing societal opposition as opportunities to learn to deal with the planning dilemmas.

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Udo Pesch; Pieter E. Vermaas. The Wickedness of Rittel and Webber’s Dilemmas. Administration & Society 2020, 52, 960 -979.

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Udo Pesch, Pieter E. Vermaas. The Wickedness of Rittel and Webber’s Dilemmas. Administration & Society. 2020; 52 (6):960-979.

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Udo Pesch; Pieter E. Vermaas. 2020. "The Wickedness of Rittel and Webber’s Dilemmas." Administration & Society 52, no. 6: 960-979.

Journal article
Published: 20 May 2020 in Energy Research & Social Science
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Energy controversies have been widely studied. Such studies are, however, generally based on either single case studies, providing rich and in-depth understanding of (local) dynamics of planning and implementation processes, or they focus on understanding responses to a specific technology (not bound to a location). Therefore these studies tend to overlook a key dynamic in controversy, namely that publics respond to projects by drawing on earlier experiences with a similar technology elsewhere, or with earlier experiences with other technologies in their vicinity. We refer to this dynamic as controversy spillover. The notion of controversy spillover helps to understand how the discursive space of controversy changes over time. In case studies, other controversies are usually considered as context, i.e. as an external condition. However, in order to understand the temporal dynamics of public engagement with energy projects, spillover from other controversies deserves to be investigated more as an object of interest, rather than as an external condition. The aim of this paper is to conceptualize controversy spillover as an important dynamic in controversies and to develop a research agenda. We identify three different types of spillover: 1) geographical (i.e. between the same energy technology in different locations), 2) historical (i.e. with respect to earlier experiences at the same location), 3) technology (i.e. between different technologies). Three empirical examples serve to illustrate the three types of spillover. We finalize the paper with a research agenda for further conceptualization and empirical analysis of the notion of controversy spillover.

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Eefje Cuppen; Olivier Ejderyan; Udo Pesch; Shannon Spruit; Elisabeth van de Grift; Aad Correlje; Behnam Taebi. When controversies cascade: Analysing the dynamics of public engagement and conflict in the Netherlands and Switzerland through “controversy spillover”. Energy Research & Social Science 2020, 68, 101593 .

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Eefje Cuppen, Olivier Ejderyan, Udo Pesch, Shannon Spruit, Elisabeth van de Grift, Aad Correlje, Behnam Taebi. When controversies cascade: Analysing the dynamics of public engagement and conflict in the Netherlands and Switzerland through “controversy spillover”. Energy Research & Social Science. 2020; 68 ():101593.

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Eefje Cuppen; Olivier Ejderyan; Udo Pesch; Shannon Spruit; Elisabeth van de Grift; Aad Correlje; Behnam Taebi. 2020. "When controversies cascade: Analysing the dynamics of public engagement and conflict in the Netherlands and Switzerland through “controversy spillover”." Energy Research & Social Science 68, no. : 101593.

Journal article
Published: 01 May 2020 in Global Discourse
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Udo Pesch. A reply to ‘Green shame: the next moral revolution?’. Global Discourse 2020, 10, 273 -275.

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Udo Pesch. A reply to ‘Green shame: the next moral revolution?’. Global Discourse. 2020; 10 (2):273-275.

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Udo Pesch. 2020. "A reply to ‘Green shame: the next moral revolution?’." Global Discourse 10, no. 2: 273-275.

Book chapter
Published: 04 March 2020 in Responsible Innovation in Large Technological Systems
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Energy initiatives often lead to public contestation, even when all actors support the same underlying values. The reason for contestation can be found in different interpretations of these values. This causes a serious problem in the operationalisation of responsible innovation as this presumes a singular understanding of the values that underlie a new technology. This chapter analyses this interpretive flexibility of values in the Dutch shale gas debate. It concludes that the interpretative flexibility of values pertains to the spatial orientation of the stakeholders originating from the place attachment of different actors. Arguments presented in favour of or against shale gas exploration are connected to the expected effects of this exploration on local/regional spatiality or on the (inter)national spatiality. Arguments that are put forward in either of these frames of reference hardly connect to the other frames of reference. Due to the differences in spatiality of the arguments, a common reference point is lacking, which leads to confusion and miscommunication. This paper concludes that responsible innovation should acknowledge public values in all frames of reference in a symmetrical way. It is also essential to identify a common spatiality on which the discussion can fruitfully take place.

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Marloes Dignum; Udo Pesch; Aad Correlje. Frames of reference and the interpretation of values in the Dutch shale gas debate. Responsible Innovation in Large Technological Systems 2020, 40 -63.

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Marloes Dignum, Udo Pesch, Aad Correlje. Frames of reference and the interpretation of values in the Dutch shale gas debate. Responsible Innovation in Large Technological Systems. 2020; ():40-63.

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Marloes Dignum; Udo Pesch; Aad Correlje. 2020. "Frames of reference and the interpretation of values in the Dutch shale gas debate." Responsible Innovation in Large Technological Systems , no. : 40-63.

Journal article
Published: 17 February 2020 in Science and Engineering Ethics
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This paper makes a conceptual inquiry into the notion of ‘publics’, and forwards an understanding of this notion that allows more responsible forms of decision-making with regards to technologies that have localized impacts, such as wind parks, hydrogen stations or flood barriers. The outcome of this inquiry is that the acceptability of a decision is to be assessed by a plurality of ‘publics’, including that of a local community. Even though a plurality of ‘publics’ might create competing normative demands, its acknowledgment is necessary to withstand the monopolization of the process of technology appraisal. The paper presents four ways in which such an appropriation of publicness takes place. The creation of dedicated ‘local publics’, in contrast, helps to overcome these problems and allows for more responsible forms of decision-making. We describe ‘local publics’ as those in which stakeholders from the different publics that are related to the process of technology implementation are brought together, and in which concerns and issues from these publics are deliberated upon. The paper will present eight conditions for increasing the effectiveness of such ‘local publics’.

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Udo Pesch; Nicole M. A. Huijts; Gunter Bombaerts; Neelke Doorn; Agnieszka Hunka. Creating ‘Local Publics’: Responsibility and Involvement in Decision-Making on Technologies with Local Impacts. Science and Engineering Ethics 2020, 26, 2215 -2234.

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Udo Pesch, Nicole M. A. Huijts, Gunter Bombaerts, Neelke Doorn, Agnieszka Hunka. Creating ‘Local Publics’: Responsibility and Involvement in Decision-Making on Technologies with Local Impacts. Science and Engineering Ethics. 2020; 26 (4):2215-2234.

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Udo Pesch; Nicole M. A. Huijts; Gunter Bombaerts; Neelke Doorn; Agnieszka Hunka. 2020. "Creating ‘Local Publics’: Responsibility and Involvement in Decision-Making on Technologies with Local Impacts." Science and Engineering Ethics 26, no. 4: 2215-2234.

Original article
Published: 23 August 2019 in Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour
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The self is conceptualized in a multitude of ways in different scholarly fields; at the same time moral agency appears to presuppose a unitary conception of the self. This paper explores this tension by introducing ‘moral senses’ which inform the normative evaluations of a person. The moral senses are featured as innate dispositions, but they inevitably recruit discursive categorizations in order to function. These senses forward both an ‘individual self’, by experiencing a unitary body, mind and character, and a ‘social self’, that is similarly experienced as a body, a mind, and a character. This social self is enabled by the capacity to internalize other people's feelings and intentions and the need to have otherworldly explanations for observable reality. This integrative framework of moral senses provides an understanding that helps to address the challenge of moral heterogeneity and plurality.

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Udo Pesch. Making sense of the self: an integrative framework for moral agency. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 2019, 50, 119 -130.

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Udo Pesch. Making sense of the self: an integrative framework for moral agency. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour. 2019; 50 (1):119-130.

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Udo Pesch. 2019. "Making sense of the self: an integrative framework for moral agency." Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 50, no. 1: 119-130.

Journal article
Published: 01 August 2019 in Technological Forecasting and Social Change
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Eefje Cuppen; Udo Pesch; Sanne Remmerswaal; Mattijs Taanman. Normative diversity, conflict and transition: Shale gas in the Netherlands. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 2019, 145, 165 -175.

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Eefje Cuppen, Udo Pesch, Sanne Remmerswaal, Mattijs Taanman. Normative diversity, conflict and transition: Shale gas in the Netherlands. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 2019; 145 ():165-175.

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Eefje Cuppen; Udo Pesch; Sanne Remmerswaal; Mattijs Taanman. 2019. "Normative diversity, conflict and transition: Shale gas in the Netherlands." Technological Forecasting and Social Change 145, no. : 165-175.

Short review
Published: 22 June 2019 in Energy Research & Social Science
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In order to have the assessment of the local impacts of energy projects, decision-makers need to separate a local public from the wider public. From the starting point that ‘publics’ are so-called imaginaries, this perspective paper argues that the operationalisation of publics tends to impose concerns, motivations and capacities upon the members of both publics, expecting local publics to consider specific concerns, while wider publics are expected to attend generic interests. Moreover, methods to invite members from a local public to speak out on the acceptability of an energy project tend to ignore the heterogeneity and dynamics of the ‘public’, compromising the democratic legitimacy of an assessment made by such a local public.

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Udo Pesch. Elusive publics in energy projects: The politics of localness and energy democracy. Energy Research & Social Science 2019, 56, 101225 .

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Udo Pesch. Elusive publics in energy projects: The politics of localness and energy democracy. Energy Research & Social Science. 2019; 56 ():101225.

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Udo Pesch. 2019. "Elusive publics in energy projects: The politics of localness and energy democracy." Energy Research & Social Science 56, no. : 101225.

Journal article
Published: 18 March 2019 in Social Studies of Science
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New network technologies are framed as eliminating ‘transaction costs’, a notion first developed in economic theory that now drives the design of market systems. However, the actual promise of the elimination of transaction costs seems unfeasible, because of a cyclical pattern in which network technologies that make that promise create processes of institutionalization that create new forms transaction costs. Nonetheless, the promises legitimize the exemption of innovations of network technologies from critical scrutiny.

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Udo Pesch; Georgy Ishmaev. Fictions and frictions: Promises, transaction costs and the innovation of network technologies. Social Studies of Science 2019, 49, 264 -277.

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Udo Pesch, Georgy Ishmaev. Fictions and frictions: Promises, transaction costs and the innovation of network technologies. Social Studies of Science. 2019; 49 (2):264-277.

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Udo Pesch; Georgy Ishmaev. 2019. "Fictions and frictions: Promises, transaction costs and the innovation of network technologies." Social Studies of Science 49, no. 2: 264-277.

Book chapter
Published: 01 January 2019 in Handbook of Sustainable Innovation
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Responsible research and innovation (RRI) has emerged as a policy concept over the past five years as a notion that explicitly aims to emphasize social and ethical issues of research and innovation. Based on a structured literature review, we assess how scholars deal with the concept of RRI in relation to notions of sustainability and sustainable development. This chapter identifies the features of RRI that are relevant for sustainable innovation and discusses how insights from RRI literature can support further development of a sustainable innovation research agenda. We show that RRI literature has a strong focus on process rather than outcome, and a focus on change within systems rather than change of systems. RRI can contribute to the sustainable innovation research agenda by its emphasis on normative dimensions of innovation, and second, through its attention to individual responsibility and thereby the role of agency in innovation.

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Eefje Cuppen; Elisabeth Van De Grift; Udo Pesch. Reviewing responsible research and innovation: lessons for a sustainable innovation research agenda? Handbook of Sustainable Innovation 2019, 142 -164.

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Eefje Cuppen, Elisabeth Van De Grift, Udo Pesch. Reviewing responsible research and innovation: lessons for a sustainable innovation research agenda? Handbook of Sustainable Innovation. 2019; ():142-164.

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Eefje Cuppen; Elisabeth Van De Grift; Udo Pesch. 2019. "Reviewing responsible research and innovation: lessons for a sustainable innovation research agenda?" Handbook of Sustainable Innovation , no. : 142-164.

Research article
Published: 26 October 2018 in Packaging Technology and Science
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This paper presents a multi‐criteria decision‐making approach for the selection of a sustainable product‐package design, accounting for the different actors within a food supply chain. The study extends the focus of sustainable packaging design to the collective of all supply chain actors. Decision criteria are identified via a literature review, and current product‐package alternatives are collected via interviews. With the inputs of these criteria and the alternative designs, a multi‐criteria decision‐making problem is formulated and solved using Best Worst Method (BWM). BWM finds the weights of the criteria. Using these weights, the ranking of the alternatives is found. The implementation of the analysis took place for three selected products of the Kraft Heinz Company. Data on the preferences of the supply chain members of these selected products were collected, and the optimal package designs were selected. It is shown through sensitivity analysis that modifying the weights that decision makers assign to the preferences of the supply chain members and the importance of the dimensions of sustainability have an effect on the selection of the optimal design.

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Jafar Rezaei; Athanasios Papakonstantinou; Lori Tavasszy; Udo Pesch; Austin Kana. Sustainable product-package design in a food supply chain: A multi-criteria life cycle approach. Packaging Technology and Science 2018, 32, 85 -101.

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Jafar Rezaei, Athanasios Papakonstantinou, Lori Tavasszy, Udo Pesch, Austin Kana. Sustainable product-package design in a food supply chain: A multi-criteria life cycle approach. Packaging Technology and Science. 2018; 32 (2):85-101.

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Jafar Rezaei; Athanasios Papakonstantinou; Lori Tavasszy; Udo Pesch; Austin Kana. 2018. "Sustainable product-package design in a food supply chain: A multi-criteria life cycle approach." Packaging Technology and Science 32, no. 2: 85-101.

Journal article
Published: 08 October 2018 in International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce three storylines that address the relation between economic growth, technical innovation and environmental impact. The paper assesses if and how these storylines as guiding visions increase our range of future orientations. Design/methodology/approach The paper first explains its general outline and then explores different strands of literature to arrive at its analytical conclusions. Findings Pursuing the three storylines in a paradigmatic articulation creates paradoxes. The growth paradigm focuses on economic growth as its main goal. To overcome environmental degradation, products have to be substituted by environmentally friendly alternatives, but the continuous substitution of finite resources seems unlikely possible. The storyline of innovation sees technological development as a driver of economic progress, and holds that innovations allow the decoupling of economic growth from environmental impact, a claim that is compromised by the occurrence of rebound effects. The degrowth storyline holds that economic growth has to be stopped altogether, but is unclear how this can be done. Originality/value By articulating paradigmatic perspectives as storylines, a new understanding on how these perspectives can be figured as a constructive repertoire of guiding visions and not as mere theory-based descriptions.

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Udo Pesch. Paradigms and paradoxes: the futures of growth and degrowth. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 2018, 38, 1133 -1146.

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Udo Pesch. Paradigms and paradoxes: the futures of growth and degrowth. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy. 2018; 38 (11/12):1133-1146.

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Udo Pesch. 2018. "Paradigms and paradoxes: the futures of growth and degrowth." International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 38, no. 11/12: 1133-1146.

Journal article
Published: 16 April 2018 in European Planning Studies
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Udo Pesch; Wouter Spekkink; Jaco Quist. Local sustainability initiatives: innovation and civic engagement in societal experiments. European Planning Studies 2018, 27, 300 -317.

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Udo Pesch, Wouter Spekkink, Jaco Quist. Local sustainability initiatives: innovation and civic engagement in societal experiments. European Planning Studies. 2018; 27 (2):300-317.

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Udo Pesch; Wouter Spekkink; Jaco Quist. 2018. "Local sustainability initiatives: innovation and civic engagement in societal experiments." European Planning Studies 27, no. 2: 300-317.