PhD course on Green Economy in the Making

Peter Karnøe and I organize a PhD course on Green Economy in the Making 11-12 May 2026 at AAU in Copenhagen. Building on the new economic sociology formed on science and technology scholarship, the course provides new understandings to processes of ‘greening’ economies by redesigning markets, commodities, regulation, and resources.

We hope to be joined by PhD students from sociology, anthropology, political science, sustainable design, and related fields!

Check out the course here: https://lnkd.in/eGnngauE
Enrollment will open in January or February.

In the course, we’ll study how the green transition takes place to a very large extent through markets – by:
* developing new, ‘green’ resources for the economy (such as renewable energy or by recycling waste)
* designing new ‘intangible’ environmental commodities (like tradable CO2 emission quotas or green certificates),
* regulating the production and circulation of existing goods (such as ESG rules or the definition of product standards)
* redesigning markets to favor ‘green’ forms of arbitrage (such as eco labelling or flexible demand in electricity markets).

The two-day course will comprise both lectures, student presentations, and group discussion based on participants’ own work. We have six 30-minute slots for discussing student papers. These will be allocated on a first come first serve basis.

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Troels Krarup

Associate Professor

Department of Sustainability and Planning

Aalborg University, Copenhagen

+45 42 58 88 31