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“Oh Yes! Net-Zero”: Sociotechnical capabilities and regional innovation systems for British industrial decarbonization "哦，是的！净零"：英国工业脱碳的社会技术能力和区域创新体系

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2024-05-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2024.100852

Benjamin K. Sovacool , Kyle S. Herman , Marfuga Iskandarova , Jeremy K. Hall

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The comparative political economy of sustainability transitions: Varying obstacles, accelerants and power in national capitalisms 可持续性转型的比较政治经济学：国家资本主义中不同的障碍、助推器和权力

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2024-05-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2024.100853

Dan Bailey

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Rethinking the geography of sustainability transitions by considering human-nature connections in rural areas 通过考虑农村地区人与自然的联系，重新思考可持续性过渡的地理问题

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2024-05-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2024.100851

Vincent Vindevoghel

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Identifying social tipping point through perceived peer effect 通过感知到的同伴效应确定社会临界点

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2024-05-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2024.100847

Yuan Peng, Xuemei Bai

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Multi-system interactions and institutional work: Actor interactions at the interface of residential storage systems and electric vehicles in Germany 多系统互动和机构工作：德国住宅存储系统与电动汽车界面上的行为者互动

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2024-04-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2024.100844

Andrea Käsbohrer , Teis Hansen , Hans-Martin Zademach

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Towards a socio-techno-ecological approach to sustainability transitions 采用社会-技术-生态方法实现可持续性转型

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2024-04-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2024.100846

Johnn Andersson , Thomas Taro Lennerfors , Helena Fornstedt

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Power in urban logistics: A comparative analysis of networks and policymaking in logistics sustainability governance 城市物流中的权力：物流可持续性治理中的网络和决策比较分析

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2024-04-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2024.100845

Subina Shrestha, Håvard Haarstad, Rafael Rosales

{"title":"Power in urban logistics: A comparative analysis of networks and policymaking in logistics sustainability governance","authors":"Subina Shrestha, Håvard Haarstad, Rafael Rosales","doi":"10.1016/j.eist.2024.100845","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2024.100845","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article unpacks the power relations in urban logistics to understand why cities follow different policy pathways to sustainability. Drawing on the literature on power in sustainability transitions, we investigate key actors’ framings of sustainability in urban logistics and assess how they leverage their positions to pursue their framing of sustainability. We utilize a mixed-method approach, with a quantitative social network analysis and semi-structured interviews, to examine urban logistics governance in three Norwegian cities – Oslo, Bergen, and Trondheim. Our findings challenge the implicit understanding that private actors are the most powerful actors in urban logistics governance. Local authorities, we find, can strategically leverage their <em>dispositional</em> and <em>relational</em> power to prioritize their preferred framing of sustainability, which is based on compact and climate-neutral cities. However, they seek technical-rational interventions in collaboration with private actors, typically in the form of electrification of vehicles, while logistics remains an afterthought in general urban planning.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54294,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions","volume":"51 ","pages":"Article 100845"},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210422424000364/pdfft?md5=f9b5a5767a2984dc3e54bbde581bd691&pid=1-s2.0-S2210422424000364-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140618915","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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Innovation policy for sustainability transitions in small economies: Energy technology innovation in Hong Kong 小型经济体可持续转型的创新政策：香港的能源技术创新

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2024-04-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2024.100841

Gloria Wenting Luo , Viktória Döme , Weronika Cycak , Kira JM Matus

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Accelerating the sustainability transition of brown regions: Unlocking the speed factor 加速棕色地区的可持续性转型：释放速度因子

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2024-04-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2024.100840

Stefano Basilico , Nils Grashof

{"title":"Accelerating the sustainability transition of brown regions: Unlocking the speed factor","authors":"Stefano Basilico , Nils Grashof","doi":"10.1016/j.eist.2024.100840","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eist.2024.100840","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Green innovations aim to improve and reduce the environmental impact of economic activities. Thus far, research focus on the positive trajectories of green transition. Continuing in this direction we focus on brown regions (i.e. specialized in fossil-fuel technologies) and the challenges that they face to become sustainable. Taking as example German Labour Market Regions we identify brown regions and measure their transition using an innovative approach based on Social Network Analysis and Knowledge Spaces. We find that the technological relatedness to green technologies, having a high life satisfaction in the region and the presence of the green party in the local government facilitate the transition. However, strong economic structures based on brown activities do not generally increase the transition speed. Our findings imply that technological and socio-economic characteristics influence the speed of transition, a dimension not yet accounted for in the sustainability transition literature.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54294,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions","volume":"51 ","pages":"Article 100840"},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210422424000315/pdfft?md5=18cc56c32790886a95d3d6c350b99ccc&pid=1-s2.0-S2210422424000315-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140542202","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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Decarbonising industry supply chains: Incumbent-oriented transition intermediation for industry energy transition 工业供应链去碳化：以现有企业为导向的过渡中介，促进工业能源转型

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2024-04-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2024.100843

Alexander Nordt, Rob Raven, Shirin Malekpour, Darren Sharp

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