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Modelling potential environmental and socio-economic impacts of substituting livestock meat with soy-based meat substitutes 模拟用大豆基肉类替代品替代牲畜肉类的潜在环境和社会经济影响

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2025-05-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101006

Navoda Nirmani Liyana Pathirana , Ya-Yen Sun , Mengyu Li , Takako Wakiyama , Futu Faturay , Shweta Singh , Miriam Chrisandra Stevens , David Raubenheimer , Manfred Lenzen

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Can the digital economy effectively contribute to the clean energy transition? A provincial panel data analysis from China 数字经济能否有效促进清洁能源转型？来自中国的省级面板数据分析

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2025-05-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101003

Yuanyuan Hao , Yifei Jiang , Shuang Lv

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Towards robust middle-range theories - a call to improve knowledge accumulation in transition studies 走向稳健的中程理论——呼吁提高转型研究的知识积累

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2025-05-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101001

Taneli Vaskelainen , Christina M. Bidmon , Matthijs B. Punt

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Unravelling the relationship between digitalisation and sustainable energy transitions using socio-technical-ecological scripts 利用社会技术生态脚本揭示数字化与可持续能源转型之间的关系

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2025-05-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.100994

Ricarda Schmidt-Scheele , Jannika Mattes

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How to build (in) the future? Legitimacy of socio-technical visions in a bio-based construction sector 如何建设未来？以生物为基础的建筑部门的社会技术愿景的合法性

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2025-04-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.100996

Lennart Fischer , Sebastian Losacker

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Advertising restrictions and sustainability transitions: does banning advertising of harmful products induce innovation in benign alternatives? 广告限制和可持续性转变：禁止有害产品的广告会导致良性替代品的创新吗？

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2025-04-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101000

Will McDowall , Anders Underthun

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Mapping the hydrogen transition in the Netherlands: A sociotechnical multi-system event sequence analysis 绘制荷兰氢过渡：社会技术多系统事件序列分析

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2025-04-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.100999

Jerico Bakhuis , Jaco Quist , Wouter Spekkink , Thomas Hoppe , Kornelis Blok

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Socio-technical lock-in as alignment process: tracing the joint development of pesticide dependency and vegetable production in Senegal (1900–2024) 作为协调过程的社会技术锁定：追踪塞内加尔农药依赖和蔬菜生产的共同发展（1900-2024）

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2025-04-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.100997

Baptiste Gaillard , Bruno Turnheim , Raphaël Belmin , Allison Marie Loconto

{"title":"Socio-technical lock-in as alignment process: tracing the joint development of pesticide dependency and vegetable production in Senegal (1900–2024)","authors":"Baptiste Gaillard , Bruno Turnheim , Raphaël Belmin , Allison Marie Loconto","doi":"10.1016/j.eist.2025.100997","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eist.2025.100997","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Lock-in mechanisms are common explanations for the persistence of undesirable system configurations in the present. However, studies often analyse lock-ins statically, without tracing and explaining underlying processes. In this article, we explore the development of lock-in over time, by analysing the case study of pesticide lock-in the Senegalese vegetable sector. To this end, we draw on extensive archival document analysis. We trace pesticide lock-in through four periods (from the 1900s to 2024) and explain it as the result of alignment processes across multiple heterogenous dimensions: agricultural policy, input supply, scientific and technical knowledge, on-farm production, and vegetable commercialisation & consumption. These dimensions have aligned in stages, fuelling a dynamic of growing dependence on chemical control. To date, this overall alignment has only been partially challenged, stimulating several adaptations, reinforcing the chemical intensification process, and marginalising attempts to reduce pesticide use. The paper ends with a discussion of conformities and deviations in a case study from the existing literature on lock-in within the agri-food sector in the Global South, before suggesting ways out of the current pesticide lock-in.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54294,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions","volume":"56 ","pages":"Article 100997"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143851330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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“We can’t do everything ourselves.” - Why Swedish municipalities deliberately promote intermediation in governing the mobility transition "我们不能事必躬亲"。- 瑞典市政当局为何在管理流动性转型时有意促进中介服务

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2025-04-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.100998

Max Halbwachs , Sara Gustafsson , Eugenia Perez Vico

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Photovoltaic panels diffusion in Switzerland: understanding adopters profiles using clustering methods 瑞士的光伏板扩散：使用聚类方法了解采用者概况

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2025-04-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.100995

Pablo Martinez-Alcaraz , Gloria Serra-Coch , Maria Hecher , Claudia R. Binder

{"title":"Photovoltaic panels diffusion in Switzerland: understanding adopters profiles using clustering methods","authors":"Pablo Martinez-Alcaraz , Gloria Serra-Coch , Maria Hecher , Claudia R. Binder","doi":"10.1016/j.eist.2025.100995","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eist.2025.100995","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The adoption of photovoltaic panels (PV) by households is essential to meet residential Swiss energy transition targets. While previous studies have mostly focused on the factors influencing PV adoption by comparing adopters with non-adopters, few have acknowledged the heterogeneity of adopters and examined how these factors interrelate and differ among them. This study examines how factors associated with PV adoption differ among groups of adopters, and how these differences relate to socio-demographic, household and building characteristics and the geographic context. In 2022, we surveyed 1300 Swiss PV adopters. To segment the adopters, we used factor analysis and clustering methods factors associated with PV adoption. This multi-dimensional approach revealed recommendations for supporting PV adoption: (i) seize opportunity windows, such as renovations, for professionals to act as change agents, (ii) leverage attitude towards energy-conscious behaviour and perceived control over the technology, and (iii) leverage social influence for vertical diffusion.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54294,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions","volume":"56 ","pages":"Article 100995"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143843921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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