Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions最新文献

Cross-sector collaboration, nonprofit readiness, and sustainability transitions 跨部门合作、非营利组织准备就绪和可持续性转型

IF 5.7 2区经济学

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2024-11-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2024.100933

Yuhao Ba, Sreeja Nair, Mohnish Kedia

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Navigating sustainable transition processes at the local level: The case of Energy Island Bornholm 在地方层面引导可持续转型进程：博恩霍尔姆能源岛案例

IF 5.7 2区经济学

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2024-11-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2024.100930

Andreas Skriver Hansen, Jesper Manniche, Karin Topsø Larsen

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The dynamics of change towards sustainability in developing countries: Evidence from Ghana's Waste-to-Energy transition 发展中国家向可持续性转变的动力：加纳从废物向能源过渡的证据

IF 5.7 2区经济学

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2024-11-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2024.100928

Maria Tomai , George Papachristos , Shyama V. Ramani

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Ideas behind transformative innovation policy: Economists confronting missions and sustainability transition in Finland 转型创新政策背后的理念：经济学家面对芬兰的任务和可持续性转型

IF 5.7 2区经济学

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2024-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2024.100927

Jussi Ahokas , Paavo Järvensivu , Tero Toivanen

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Hibernation of off-grid solar e-waste in Kenya: An unintended response to an emerging waste issue 肯尼亚离网太阳能电子废物的冬眠：对新出现的废物问题的无意回应

IF 5.7 2区经济学

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2024-10-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2024.100926

Godwin Opinde , Christine Majale , Ivan Nygaard

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Learning to (not quite) buy nothing: Digital gift economies and household innovations reducing consumption 学会（不完全）什么都不买：减少消费的数字礼物经济和家庭创新

IF 5.7 2区经济学

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2024-10-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2024.100929

Madeline Taylor, Paige Street

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Developing the industrial capacity for energy transitions: Resource formation for offshore wind in Europe 发展能源转型的工业能力：欧洲离岸风能的资源形成

IF 5.7 2区经济学

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2024-10-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2024.100925

Markus Steen , Tuukka Mäkitie , Jens Hanson , Håkon Endresen Normann

{"title":"Developing the industrial capacity for energy transitions: Resource formation for offshore wind in Europe","authors":"Markus Steen , Tuukka Mäkitie , Jens Hanson , Håkon Endresen Normann","doi":"10.1016/j.eist.2024.100925","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eist.2024.100925","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As energy transitions progress from formative to growth or acceleration phases, issues related to resource formation increase in importance. In this paper we address a type of resource formation that has received scant attention in the sustainability transitions literature to date: developing the industrial capacity to manufacture and deliver key complementary assets (i.e. components and services) to large energy projects. Such supply chain elements constitute a significant share of investment, are crucial for the upscaling of low-carbon technologies, and offer important job and value creation opportunities for different regions and countries. Empirically we study the build-up of industrial capacity to supply key complementary assets to the European offshore wind power market in the 2000–2019 period through three phases (formative, take-off, growth) of development. We provide explanations to observed spatio-temporal patterns of industrial capacity development by considering 1) industry life-cycle dynamics, 2) pre-existing assets and industrial relatedness, and 3) home market opportunities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54294,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions","volume":"53 ","pages":"Article 100925"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142528791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Framing the limits to growth: Narratives in the sustainable fashion industry 构建增长极限：可持续时装业的叙事

IF 5.7 2区经济学

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2024-10-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2024.100923

Lena Kramer , Tobias Stern , Michael Kriechbaum

{"title":"Framing the limits to growth: Narratives in the sustainable fashion industry","authors":"Lena Kramer , Tobias Stern , Michael Kriechbaum","doi":"10.1016/j.eist.2024.100923","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eist.2024.100923","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>While there is growing research about the roles of organisations in the transition to a post-growth society, activities in the market economy and the roles of businesses have received little attention so far. In this study, we address this gap by exploring the extent to which post-growth aspects have been considered by sustainability-oriented SMEs in the German speaking fashion industry. By drawing on the concepts of alterity and socio-technical niches, we analyse the framing strategies the companies use to position their alternative approaches in the context of the growth debate. We identify two narratives that show different degrees of oppositionality towards the established “mainstream” practices of the fashion industry: the “grow when it's good” narrative and the “less (growth) is more” narrative. Despite their antagonistic perspectives towards the relationship between sustainability and growth, these narratives can play complementary roles in a post-growth transition. At the same time, they represent the opposite ends of a continuum rather than distinct categories, which underlines the multidimensional nature of businesses’ perceptions of growth.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54294,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions","volume":"53 ","pages":"Article 100923"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142446091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Accelerating the deployment of SMRs in Canada: The importance of intermediaries 加快在加拿大部署 SMR：中介机构的重要性

IF 5.7 2区经济学

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2024-10-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2024.100918

M. Iakovleva, J. Rayner

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Place-based and sectoral patterns in urban experimentation: Implications for deep transitions research 城市实验中的地方和部门模式：对深度转型研究的影响

IF 5.7 2区经济学

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2024-10-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2024.100922

Wikke Novalia , Megan Farrelly , Rob Raven

{"title":"Place-based and sectoral patterns in urban experimentation: Implications for deep transitions research","authors":"Wikke Novalia , Megan Farrelly , Rob Raven","doi":"10.1016/j.eist.2024.100922","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eist.2024.100922","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Transforming critical infrastructure systems, such as water and energy, is crucial to achieving global sustainability and climate change targets in many cities. Whilst experimentation has been studied extensively in urban sustainability scholarships, there have been no large-N cross-sector comparative studies. Existing research is potentially blind to different patterns of urban experiments across multiple sectors. This is particularly relevant to advancing deep transitions thinking, which has increasingly foregrounded the notion of multi-system alignment across socio-technical domains. Our research aims to fill this knowledge gap using a database to characterise urban experiments across water and energy domains while integrating sectoral and place-based perspectives. We analysed 40 experiments across Melbourne and Adelaide, Australia. Our results show that on a collective level, these experiments skew towards technological interventions, while their transfer and impact trajectories are underpinned by distinct territorial and sectoral logics. We show that cross-sectoral analysis can reveal plurality in urban experiments across multiple systems and places while offering a more refined understanding of multi-system alignment requirements for deep transitions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54294,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions","volume":"53 ","pages":"Article 100922"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142432204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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