Unpacking the black box of cleaner technology

Nils Markusson

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Abstract

This paper scrutinizes the concept of cleaner technology, drawing on both a review of the literature and case study analysis of new data. By analysing the intentions behind innovations as separate from outcomes, a complex relationship between intentions and outcomes, as well as between different motives, is revealed. The paper argues that cleaner technology is not in fact a type of technology, that the concept obscures the role of underlying environmental motives and ambitions and that cleaner technology innovations do not necessarily deliver the economic gains they are normally understood to do. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)294-302
Number of pages9
JournalJournal of Cleaner Production
Volume19
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2011

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