His research interests include technological innovation for sustainability; sustainable consumption; housing and community development; backcasting; and technology assessment of emerging technologies. He has widely published in academic journals and book chapters, and co-authored three books. He is a founding member of the Worcester Housing, Energy, and Community (WoHEC) group; a founding member of the Advisory Board of the Greening of Industry network; a founding member of the Executive Committee of the Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative (SCORAI); and a cofounder of the Global Research Forum on Sustainable Consumption and Production. Prof. Vergragt obtained a PhD in Chemistry from Leiden University in 1976.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brown, Halina S., Philip J. Vergragt and Maurie Cohen. 2012. Setting the stage: Three theoretical perspectives illustrated by the case of Passive House. In Meeting the Crises of a Constrained World: Socio-Technical Transitions, Social Practices, and the New Economics Edward Elgar<\/em>, eds. Maurie Cohen, Philip J. Vergragt and Halina S. Brown, to be published, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Vergragt, Philip J. 2012. Carbon Capture and Storage: Sustainable Solution or Reinforced Carbon Lock-in. In Governing the Energy Transition. Reality, Illusion or Necessity?<\/em>, eds. Geert Verbong and Derk Loorbach, 101-124. New York, London: Routledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Brown, Halina S. and Philip J. Vergragt. 2012. Grassroots Innovations and Socio-Technical System Change: Energy Retrofitting of the Residential Housing Stock. In Creating a Sustainable Economy. An Institutional\/Evolutionary Approach to Environmental Policy<\/em>, ed. G. Marletto. Routledge: Studies in Ecological Economics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Vergragt, Philip J. and Halina S. Brown. 2012. The Challenge of Energy Retrofitting the Residential Housing Stock: Grassroots Innovations and Socio-technical System Change in Worcester, MA. Technology Analysis and Strategic Management<\/em> 24, no. 4: 407-420.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Vergragt, Philip J. and Jaco Quist. 2011. Backcasting for Sustainability: Introduction to a Special Issue. Technological Forecasting and Social Change<\/em> 78, no. 5: 747-755.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Vergragt, Philip J., Nils Markusson and Henrik Karlsson. 2011. Carbon Capture and Storage, Bio-energy with Carbon Capture and Storage, and the Escape from the Fossil-fuel Lock-in. Global Environmental Change<\/em> 21, no. 2: 282-292.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Quist, Jaco, Wil Thissen and Philip Vergragt. 2011. The Impact and Spin-off of Participatory Backcasting: From Vision to Niche. Technological Forecasting and Social Change<\/em> 78, no. 5: 883-897.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cohen, M., H. S. Brown, and P. Vergragt. 2010. Individual Consumption and Systemic Societal Transformation: Introduction to the Special Issue. Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy<\/em> 6, no. 2: 6-12. http:\/\/sspp.proquest.com\/archives\/vol6iss2\/introduction.cohen.html.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Vergragt, Philip J. and Halina S. Brown. 2010. GMO as a Sustainability Issue: The Role of the Global Reporting Initiative, in Governing Risk in GM Agriculture, edited by Michael Baram and Mathilde Bourrier, Springer, pp 201-234.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Philip Vergragt. 2009. CCS in the Netherlands: Glass Half Empty or Half Full? In Caching the Carbon: The Politics and Policy of Carbon Capture and Storage<\/em>, eds. James Meadowcroft and Oluf Langhelle, 186-210. Edward Elgar Publishing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Vergragt, Philip J. and Halina S. Brown. 2008. Genetic Engineering in Agriculture: New Approaches for Risk Management Through GRI-type Reporting. Technological Forecasting and Social Change<\/em> 75: 783-798<\/p>\n\n\n\n Brown Halina S. and Philip J. Vergragt. 2008. Bounded Socio-Technical Experiments as Agents of Systemic Change: The Case of a Zero-Energy Residential Building. Technological Forecasting and Social Change<\/em> 75: 107-130.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Current Research Interests His research interests include technological innovation for sustainability; sustainable consumption; housing and community development; backcasting; and technology assessment of emerging technologies. He has widely published in academic journals and book chapters, and co-authored three books. He is a founding member of the Worcester Housing, Energy, and Community (WoHEC) group; a founding member […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":235,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"cu_people_sortname":"Vergragt","cu_people_title":"Senior Research Scientist","cu_people_email":"pvergragt@clarku.edu","cu_people_phone":"1-508-751-4611","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"peoplegroups":[7],"class_list":["post-234","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","peoplegroups-research-scientists"],"yoast_head":"\n