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Resource constellations and institutional logics shape network structures of the organic seed niche innovation system

IF 5.7 2区经济学

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2025-02-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.100965

Liza Wood, Mark Lubell

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Confronting the interconnection of chemical pollution and climate change

IF 5.7 2区经济学

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2025-02-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.100966

Simona A. Bălan , Saskia K. van Bergen , Ann Blake , Topher Buck , Scott Coffin , Jamie C. DeWitt , Gretta Goldenman , Frank A. von Hippel , Sophia von Hippel , Christopher P. Leonetti , David Rist , Martin Scheringer , Xenia Trier

{"title":"Confronting the interconnection of chemical pollution and climate change","authors":"Simona A. Bălan , Saskia K. van Bergen , Ann Blake , Topher Buck , Scott Coffin , Jamie C. DeWitt , Gretta Goldenman , Frank A. von Hippel , Sophia von Hippel , Christopher P. Leonetti , David Rist , Martin Scheringer , Xenia Trier","doi":"10.1016/j.eist.2025.100966","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eist.2025.100966","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Climate change and chemical pollution are interdependent planetary threats, but climate change mitigation efforts typically do not consider chemicals and materials. This may exacerbate chemical pollution and associated harm to human and environmental health. Because most chemicals and materials are currently derived from petrochemicals, the extraction of fossil fuels cannot be limited without transitioning chemical manufacturing to different carbon sources. However, simply changing the carbon source is insufficient and could exacerbate the biodiversity crisis. We propose a comprehensive strategy to address the interconnections between chemical pollution, climate change, and biodiversity loss. This includes incentives for key actors to reduce the global production and consumption of chemicals and materials, to transition to chemicals and products that are safe and sustainable by design, to develop metrics and targets to assess progress, and to continuously evaluate and modify strategies based on performance metrics.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54294,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions","volume":"55 ","pages":"Article 100966"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143333383","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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Low carbon technologies and the grid: Analysing regulation and transitions in electricity networks

IF 5.7 2区经济学

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2025-01-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.100964

Ronan Bolton , Helen Poulter

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The polysemous nature of the German Verkehrswende—Exploring the role of floating signifiers in shaping mobility futures

IF 5.7 2区经济学

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2025-01-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.100963

Sophie-Marie Ertelt , Tom Hawxwell

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Challenge accepted: Sub-national government authorities and the legitimacy of co-creative redevelopment projects in fossil-industrial regions

IF 5.7 2区经济学

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2025-01-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.100962

T.S.G.H. Rodhouse , E.H.W.J. Cuppen , U. Pesch , A.F. Correljé

{"title":"Challenge accepted: Sub-national government authorities and the legitimacy of co-creative redevelopment projects in fossil-industrial regions","authors":"T.S.G.H. Rodhouse , E.H.W.J. Cuppen , U. Pesch , A.F. Correljé","doi":"10.1016/j.eist.2025.100962","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eist.2025.100962","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Regions reliant on declining fossil fuel production often grapple with upcoming deindustrialisation, economic decline, and deterioration of liveability. In attempts to address these issues proactively, local change agents, including sub-national government authorities, increasingly collaborate to develop new, more sustainable and just regional pathways. A potential yet not uncontested stepping stone towards such pathways is co-creative asset redevelopment. In this paper, we focus on the role of sub-national government authorities in co-creative redevelopment. Particularly, we zoom in on the legitimacy challenges that these authorities face and must address for co-creative redevelopment to have transformative capacity. We draw on insights from the case of GZI Next in Emmen, the Netherlands, and identify six challenges, amongst others intra-organisational conflicts of interests, accountability issues, and competing claims to the right to a just transition. We reflect on these challenges and how to overcome them and propose avenues for future research.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54294,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions","volume":"55 ","pages":"Article 100962"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143179771","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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Characterizing hybrid heating in the households: Diverse configurational arrangements premised on citizen's agency and peer-support

IF 5.7 2区经济学

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2024-12-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2024.100958

Marika Silvikko de Villafranca, Sini Numminen, Sampsa Hyysalo

{"title":"Characterizing hybrid heating in the households: Diverse configurational arrangements premised on citizen's agency and peer-support","authors":"Marika Silvikko de Villafranca, Sini Numminen, Sampsa Hyysalo","doi":"10.1016/j.eist.2024.100958","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eist.2024.100958","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Households are moving beyond the adoption of single renewable energy technologies. Additive adoption of heating systems has resulted in ‘hybrid heating’ comprised of several complementary energy systems. The hybridization of heating is spreading rapidly among households, featuring high diversity regarding both the make-up of hybrid solutions and the householders who create them. Our close-up study of 56 Finnish households characterizes different aspects of hybrid heating and their interrelations. Households display considerable agency in setting-up, running and adjusting and innovating in their hybrids. Hybrid heating can be conceptualized as <em>configurational arrangements</em> that are made to ‘work’ in a particular setting, meshing, e.g. material, social and economic resources. From a policy perspective ‘hybrid heaters’ are not a coherent group to which supporting measures are easy to target. Yet this diversity also indicates a broadly distributed capacity for households to advance the low carbon energy transitions through hybridization of heating.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54294,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions","volume":"55 ","pages":"Article 100958"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143179739","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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Maintaining legitimacy through the integration of discursive and visual strategies: A multimodal study of incumbents’ clean energy facilities in China

IF 5.7 2区经济学

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2024-12-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2024.100961

Lingchuan Song , Yan Sun , Xiaofei Gao

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Getting warmed up: Challenges to participatory decarbonization of a local residential heating system in Poland 暖起来：波兰当地住宅供暖系统参与式脱碳的挑战

IF 5.7 2区经济学

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2024-12-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2024.100959

Alicja Dańkowska , Agata Stasik , Tomasz Niedziółka , Agata Dembek

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The potential impact of cultivated protein on agriculture in Norway 栽培蛋白质对挪威农业的潜在影响

IF 5.7 2区经济学

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2024-12-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2024.100960

Klaus Mittenzwei , Wolfgang Britz , Rob J.F. Burton

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Just transition boundaries: Clarifying the meaning of just transition 公正过渡边界：澄清公正过渡的含义

IF 5.7 2区经济学

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2024-12-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2024.100957

Teea Kortetmäki , Cristian Timmermann , Theresa Tribaldos

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