4 postdocs and 3 PhD positions in #DH, #CompSocSci, #AI, #TextMining & #Sustainability available Uni Tartu, Estonia! Deadlines May 15 for PhD students, June 2/16 for postdocs. 1) #RiDeR ERC project on Deep Sustainability Transitions, 2) #DigiTS ERA Chair project on Digital Text Scholarship. Links 👇

Top countries crossed the West-East and North-South divide. Top 15: Sweden, Japan, Spain, South Korea, Germany, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Estonia, Brazil, Singapore, Ghana, Slovenia, Kenya, Netherlands, New Zealand. Has implications for where to try out deep systemic solutions to sustainability first.

In the paper, we develop an index (like GDP, HDI or SEI) to measure the thickness of Industrial Modernity in 63 countries. Combining data from different fields, we track the ideas, institutions and practices about environment, science, and technology.

#sts #sustainability #environment #modernity

Paper out! :)

Anna-Kati Pahker, Laur Kanger & Peeter Tinits. 2024. Where is the deep sustainability turn most likely to emerge? An Industrial Modernity Index. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. doi.org/10.1016/j.te...

Open: authors.elsevier.com/c/1iUcd98SG~...

#AcademicSky #EconSky 🌍 🧪

Paper out:
Kanger et al. 2023. Long-term country-level evidence of major but uneven ruptures in the landscape of industrial modernity. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions. doi.org/10.1016/j.ei...

Author link: authors.elsevier.com/c/1hfrK7sbuJ...

#twitternostalgia #academictwitter :)