Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions最新文献

{"title":"Hybrid entrepreneurship in just transitions: Dealing with dilemmas facing ‘the other’","authors":"Rick Colbourne ,&nbsp;Lalarukh Ejaz ,&nbsp;Vadim Grinevich ,&nbsp;Saima Husain ,&nbsp;D'Arcy O'Farrell","doi":"10.1016/j.eist.2024.100924","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eist.2024.100924","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The aim of the paper is to investigate the role of hybrid entrepreneurship in developing justice and diversity responses to sustainability transitions that are complicated by contexts of ambiguous socio-technological shifts and manifested in material and ethical dilemmas for ‘the other’, i.e., those deemed different. Based on analysis of two original case studies featuring the other—the Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation indigenous community in Canada and the Karachi Down Syndrome Program in Pakistan—we identify the conditions for engaging minority communities in strong collaborative and participatory cross-stakeholder processes to deal with dilemmas posed by sustainability transitions. We centre on issues of social inclusion and social equity. We illuminate how hybrid entrepreneurship practices enable, structure and manage collective learning within and outside hybrid ventures to facilitate equitable transitions. Finally, we propose how to co-create actions that amplify marginalized voices to influence institutions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54294,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions","volume":"53 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142418258","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}

{"title":"The influence of disruptive events on energy-related household practices: Results of a longitudinal study in the Netherlands","authors":"Véronique Vasseur ,&nbsp;Julia Backhaus","doi":"10.1016/j.eist.2024.100920","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eist.2024.100920","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Household energy use relates to our socio-cultural identity, our socio-economic status and the socio-cultural and material contexts in which we live. Around the world, households experienced dramatic changes in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and the drastic increase of energy prices following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Habits and routines were disrupted, reinterpreted, reorganized and renegotiated, albeit under constraints and in most cases involuntarily. This paper analyses how the practice of ‘keeping warm’ responds to disruptive events ranging from a small-scale and short-lived experiment to much more drastic and far-reaching geopolitical events. Following an initial study challenging households to reduce temperatures inside their homes during October/November 2018, the same households were revisited for follow-up questioning two and a half years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe and six months after the attack of Russian armed forces on Ukraine. Quantitative and qualitative data were collected before, during, and three months as well as three years after the original ‘heating challenge’. The final follow-up survey took place in August 2022 and turned the initial short-lived Living Lab-based experiment into a longitudinal study.</div><div>The experimental exploration of possibilities to reduce household energy use through the disruption of routinized practices in Living Labs enables an analysis of the effects of disruptive events, including the role of values, social norms, habits and routines (Sahakian et al., 2021). But what happens, when experiments get serious and large-scale upheaval affecting many challenges and changes meanings, thus contributing to changes in social norms and practices? This research explores lasting-changes in energy-related household practices following voluntary disruptive experimentation and subsequent involuntary disruptions. Compared to the macro-systemic disruptions experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic and the more recent energy crisis, the disruptions induced through the initial ‘heating challenge’ are of a much smaller magnitude. Our findings show that reductions in energy use are possible when routinized practices are disrupted through voluntary experimentation. In addition, our results indicate that the meanings tied up with indoor comfort had changed due to the initial experiment and that participants who initially experimented in an interactive community setting had learned more about how to connect, share experiences and reflections to adapt to other, also large-scale disruptions collaboratively.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54294,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions","volume":"53 ","pages":"Article 100920"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142418259","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}

{"title":"Scalar orientation of policies and technology legitimacy: The case of decarbonization in Norway","authors":"Teis Hansen ,&nbsp;Jens Hanson ,&nbsp;Tuukka Mäkitie ,&nbsp;Håkon Normann ,&nbsp;Markus Steen","doi":"10.1016/j.eist.2024.100919","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eist.2024.100919","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper suggest that we need to better understand the relationship between policy rationales and their scalar orientation. The former refers to the underlying motivations for proposing policies. The latter refers to two dimensions: the geography of challenges that policy seek to address, and the geography of effects that policy seek to instigate. Such variations in the scalar orientation of national level climate and energy policy, may lead to differing rationales for (not) supporting technologies that can contribute to decarbonization, depending also on their alignment with broader context structures. In this way, scalar orientation of policy rationales may have significant implications for technology legitimacy. We develop a conceptual framework that distinguishes four types of scalar orientation in local/global challenges and effects. Empirically, we analyse how shifting scalar orientation of policy rationales in Norway has influenced legitimacy for LNG in shipping, offshore wind in the energy sector, and CCS for various user sectors.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54294,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions","volume":"53 ","pages":"Article 100919"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142418257","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}

{"title":"Towards new perspectives of stakeholder engagement in sustainability transitions: Bringing the supranational level into view","authors":"Luka Gudek,&nbsp;Kristiaan P.W. Kok,&nbsp;Jacqueline E.W. Broerse","doi":"10.1016/j.eist.2024.100921","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eist.2024.100921","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Although stakeholder engagement is a well-discussed topic within sustainability transitions research, it is underexplored in the context of supranational actors, such as the EU, despite the apparent relevance. Through the case study of the European citizen and stakeholder consultations around European Green Deal (EGD), this paper investigates the implications of stakeholder engagement conducted on a supranational level. By applying a transitions-based engagement framework, gaps are highlighted in the existing knowledge of the particular supranational dynamics in engagement for sustainability transitions. The goals of engagement are entangled and point to the complexity of supranational organisations, as well as specific challenges these organisations face in engagement processes. These include challenges of overcoming scale, relevance for the citizens, as well as legitimizing their own role as a transitions actor. These distinctly supranational challenges of engagement in transitions highlight several new avenues for research. In order to play a more effective role in transitions, supranational organisations must overcome these challenges.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54294,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions","volume":"53 ","pages":"Article 100921"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142418256","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}

{"title":"Harnessing social innovation for a just transition: A case study of tea industrialization in China's era of ecological civilization","authors":"Ping Huang ,&nbsp;Vanesa Castán Broto ,&nbsp;Linda Westman","doi":"10.1016/j.eist.2024.100917","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eist.2024.100917","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The narrative of 'just transition' has gained significant traction in arenas of transition research and policymaking. Social innovation can play a central role in delivering a just transition, fostering social change and providing social arrangements that enable adjustment to change. Engaging with the ‘shapeshifting’ nature of social innovation, this research conceptualizes social innovation at the core of the just transition. Through an in-depth empirical case of tea industrialization in Enshi, China, this research explores how a locally born social innovation, Enshi Yulu, has gained momentum in advancing a just transition <em>in-the-making</em> in a new era of ecological civilization. The empirical analysis reveals that the key to the empowerment of Enshi Yulu in driving a just transition in Enshi city lies in the introduction of updated forms of the social innovation at opportune moments. This finding underscores the importance of comprehending the context- and time-sensitive nature of social innovation in navigating the directionality of transition towards more just outcomes. The core analytical question lies not in characterizing the ultimate shape of social innovation, but in understanding how certain initiatives come to be understood as social innovation and with what implications.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54294,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions","volume":"53 ","pages":"Article 100917"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142358930","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}

{"title":"The potential of innovation contests in articulating demand for system-level transformation: The case of the Helsinki Energy Challenge","authors":"Matti Pihlajamaa,&nbsp;Ville Valovirta","doi":"10.1016/j.eist.2024.100916","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eist.2024.100916","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As local authorities and providers of services and infrastructures, cities can advance sustainability transformations through instruments like public procurement. However, a disconnect exists between broad (supra)national sustainability challenges and public procurers’ local needs. We examine innovation contests as a tool for articulating societal challenges as local demands for innovation. We study Helsinki Energy Challenge, where the city of Helsinki, Finland, sought solutions for decarbonizing its heating system, offering a million-euro reward. We explore how innovation contest-related activities contribute to articulating demand for system innovation locally and their influence on participants’ problem-solving approaches. The case demonstrates how innovation contests could localise demand for sustainable solutions and direct innovation processes toward a societal challenge, while supporting solutions’ broader scalability. We identify six demand articulation activities: expressing strategic intent, scoping, boundary-setting, user-producer interaction, evaluation, and embedding. We enhance understanding of demand articulation processes for system innovation and the potential of innovation contests for transformative innovation missions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54294,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions","volume":"53 ","pages":"Article 100916"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142327171","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}

{"title":"Transition imaginaries: Expectations of the state project of an electric vehicle in Poland","authors":"Aleksandra Lis-Plesińska ,&nbsp;Rafał Szymanowski ,&nbsp;Marek W. Jaskólski","doi":"10.1016/j.eist.2024.100912","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eist.2024.100912","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We present the concept of “transition imaginary”, defined as a discursive effect of the relational work of the state to strategically select and reconfigure landscape pressures through national sociotechnical imaginaries for the sake of legitimizing particular transition projects. Using the case study of the Polish project of an electric vehicle (EV) IZERA, we illustrate a model that helps understand how landscape pressures are reinterpreted in relation to national sociotechnical imaginaries with the active role of state actors in this process. State actors use various forms of representation to publicly express expectations about its benefits and meanings to consolidate the social base for it and propose concrete forms of intervention to bring them into existence. By applying the strategic-relational approach to state power developed by Bob Jessop, we unpack sustainable transitions as state projects of political power and a geographically specific modality of state capitalism.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54294,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions","volume":"53 ","pages":"Article 100912"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142318844","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}

{"title":"The uphill battle for reinventing post-industrial regions: The case of Greater Manchester's ‘clean growth’ mission","authors":"Matt Ziembla ,&nbsp;Elvira Uyarra ,&nbsp;Jonatan Pinkse","doi":"10.1016/j.eist.2024.100915","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eist.2024.100915","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this paper we enrich the concept of place-based leadership. Building on social movement theory, our analysis of the clean growth mission development in Greater Manchester (UK) reveals the role of place-based leadership in mobilising and coordinating framing processes that linked the global climate change problem with local challenges, articulated local benefits of its resolution, and provided justification for local change efforts. We draw on theories of the policy process (i.e. Multiple Streams Framework) to shed light on how place-based leaders frame problems and solutions strategically to engender policy change. While framing processes had an impact on local policy agendas, we do not find evidence of accelerated implementation, pointing to the important distinctions between problem ownership and solution ownership in the context of wicked problems. Our findings contribute to the ongoing debate on the role of multi-level governance and localised agency in problem-based policymaking for sustainable regional development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54294,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions","volume":"53 ","pages":"Article 100915"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210422424001059/pdfft?md5=4bb6f21afbab09b3f97f3ef117649c00&pid=1-s2.0-S2210422424001059-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142312407","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}

{"title":"Networked sustainable business model innovation and sustainable energy transitions: A case study of incumbent Chinese manufacturers in 2010–2022","authors":"Akihisa Mori,&nbsp;Keyue Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.eist.2024.100911","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eist.2024.100911","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The sustainability transition literature has paid scant attention to incumbent generation equipment manufacturers, constituting a complementary element in electricity systems. To fill this research gap, this study develops the concept of networked sustainable business model innovation (SBMI) as an analytical framework to explore how incumbent manufacturers change business models in response to changes in incumbent power generators and how these changes influence transitions in electricity systems. Based on case studies of three major Chinese incumbent power generation equipment manufacturers, our findings reveal that the networked SBMI by incumbent power generators and power generation equipment manufacturers can accelerate transitions to RES-E-based electricity systems in the segments where incumbent power generation equipment manufacturers have the capabilities to reorient and gain a competitive edge in the market. However, incumbent power generators can resume coal power projects unless incumbent power generation equipment manufacturers completely scrap coal power equipment production capacities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54294,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions","volume":"53 ","pages":"Article 100911"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210422424001011/pdfft?md5=92eca8c79ff13fa1fed9107b8b9da493&pid=1-s2.0-S2210422424001011-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142312404","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}

{"title":"The role of borderlands in the energy transition: Toward a theoretical framework","authors":"Itay Fischhendler","doi":"10.1016/j.eist.2024.100900","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eist.2024.100900","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Scholars have yet to devote sufficient attention to the reciprocal relationship between renewable energy (RE) and the dynamics of political borders. This oversight is surprising given the tangible examples demonstrating how RE projects are strategically sited as part of, near, across, and even distant from political borders. This study asserts that the selection of border sites for RE is influenced by the interplay of conditions prevalent in borderlands. Accordingly, it seeks to establish a theoretical foundation for the search for causalities between conditions in contact zones on the fringes of national states (borderlands) and RE transition. To this end, the study builds a multidimensional taxonomy of RE spatial relations in borderlands. It then suggests competing relationships between the physical, political, and regulatory conditions prevailing in borderlands and the choice of RE spatial relations in borderlands. It concludes by proposing a research agenda that addresses the reciprocal interaction between border studies and the energy transition.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54294,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions","volume":"53 ","pages":"Article 100900"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142241753","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}