Publications

Emmy Wassénius, Anne Charlotte Bunge, Mary K. Scheuermann, Kajsa Resare Sahlin, Agnes Pranindita, Moa Ohlsson, Abigayil Blandon, Chandrakant Singh, Kristin Malmcrona Friberg, Patricia Villarrubia-Gómez. 2023. Creative destruction in academia: a time to reimagine practices in alignment with sustainability values. Sustainability Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-023-01357-6

Academia has experienced acceleration and expansion in parallel with the Great Acceleration, which has shaped the Anthropocene. Among other pressures, the expectation to be internationally mobile conflicts with many values held by sustainability scholars and results in disillusionment. The changes in the academic system can be seen through the framework of the adaptive cycle, which can help us understand historical parallels a...