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Cross-technology legitimacy feedback: The politics of policy-led innovation for complementarity in concentrating solar power 跨技术合法性反馈：聚光太阳能发电互补性政策导向创新的政治性

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2024-07-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2024.100884

Richard Thonig , Johan Lilliestam

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Policy mixes for just transitions: A holistic evaluation framework 公正过渡的政策组合：整体评估框架

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2024-07-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2024.100885

Minna Kaljonen , Ari Paloviita , Suvi Huttunen , Teea Kortetmäki

{"title":"Policy mixes for just transitions: A holistic evaluation framework","authors":"Minna Kaljonen , Ari Paloviita , Suvi Huttunen , Teea Kortetmäki","doi":"10.1016/j.eist.2024.100885","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2024.100885","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this paper, we develop a holistic policy evaluation framework that aims to harness a fuller potential of just transitions. Although appeals for broader understanding of just transitions are becoming louder, applicable frameworks supporting consideration of justice in the planning and evaluation of transition policies are still lacking. The evaluation framework developed integrates the multidimensional understanding of justice more consistently into the consideration of policy intervention points for sustainability transitions. We test and apply the framework to the discussions concerning just food system transitions in Finland. The results show that justice issues deserve attention across all the policy intervention points, but their relative importance differ. A better understanding of the relative importance of justice concerns is critical when designing policy mixes for more active and emancipatory just transitions governance. We close the paper by explicating further avenues for the application and development of the framework.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54294,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions","volume":"52 ","pages":"Article 100885"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210422424000753/pdfft?md5=72dd700103c62a4563e8e1043fb7da55&pid=1-s2.0-S2210422424000753-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141594344","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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Diffusion dynamics of the informal sector sustainable innovations: Exploring cases of grassroots innovations in India 非正规部门可持续创新的扩散动态：印度基层创新案例探讨

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2024-07-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2024.100886

Anjali Chandulal Lakum , Namrata , Hemant Kumar

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Place-based allocation of R&D funding: Directing the German innovation system for hydrogen technologies in space 基于地方的研发资金分配：指导德国空间氢技术创新体系

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2024-07-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2024.100878

Benedikt Walker

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Practices and politics of energy efficiency among householders in a low-energy building in Sweden 瑞典一栋低能耗建筑中住户的能源效率实践与政策

IF 5.7 2区经济学

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2024-07-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2024.100876

Hilda Wenander

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Creating legitimacy for cultured meat in Germany: The role of social cohesion 在德国为养殖肉类创造合法性：社会凝聚力的作用

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2024-07-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2024.100871

D. Weckowska , D. Weiss , V. Fiala , F. Nemeczek , F. Voss , C. Dreher

{"title":"Creating legitimacy for cultured meat in Germany: The role of social cohesion","authors":"D. Weckowska , D. Weiss , V. Fiala , F. Nemeczek , F. Voss , C. Dreher","doi":"10.1016/j.eist.2024.100871","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2024.100871","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Few studies on legitimation of new technologies were able to provide insights into the longitudinal changes in legitimacy outcomes and the social dynamics that underpin such outcomes. Using a novel mixed-methods approach, combining Natural Language Processing with a qualitative text analysis, and drawing on the concept of social cohesion to investigate the social relations among actors, the study offers new insights into the legitimation of cultured meat in Germany. Using 424 newspaper articles, we identify four topics in the public discourse related to cultured meat and positive average sentiment on each topic over the period 2011–2021. Furthermore, we find the actors, groups, and social relations that shape the observed legitimacy outcomes. The empirical findings are used to develop propositions about the role of social cohesion in legitimacy creation. The study paves the way for future studies on social cohesion dynamics in socio-technical change.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54294,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions","volume":"52 ","pages":"Article 100871"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210422424000613/pdfft?md5=4e77aa587461d1a062379153b0fd5aef&pid=1-s2.0-S2210422424000613-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141543801","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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Institutional voids and business model convergence in the recycling industry 回收行业的体制空白和商业模式融合

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2024-07-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2024.100882

Alain Daou , Randa Salamoun , Crystel Abdallah

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Inertia and resistance to change in multi-actor innovation processes – Evidence from two cases in the Netherlands 多行为体创新过程中的惰性和变革阻力--来自荷兰两个案例的证据

IF 5.7 2区经济学

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2024-07-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2024.100880

Florian Goldschmeding, Véronique Vasseur, René Kemp

{"title":"Inertia and resistance to change in multi-actor innovation processes – Evidence from two cases in the Netherlands","authors":"Florian Goldschmeding, Véronique Vasseur, René Kemp","doi":"10.1016/j.eist.2024.100880","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2024.100880","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Existing transitions literature often highlights successful experiments for changing practices through multi-actor processes but overlooks the challenges of adjusting incumbent practices and engaging actors in reflexive learning. The current article addresses this gap through two qualitative case studies of water-related co-creation processes in the Netherlands. Each case met inertia and resistance from various actors in different forms. We examine the difficulties encountered using data from semi-structured interviews and observations of micro-level interactions from embedded action research. We find that using transactional learning perspective combined with Practical Epistemology Analysis is useful for obtaining a worm-eye view of dynamics of incumbency on the actor-level, in contrast to the eagle-eye view commonly adopted in transitions studies. Our main contribution is the identification of specific barriers to change and demonstrating how a worm-eye perspective offers detailed insights into micro-level interactions that hinder sustainability transitions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54294,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions","volume":"52 ","pages":"Article 100880"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210422424000704/pdfft?md5=81121dc02979bffd1d5a44e4345f7fee&pid=1-s2.0-S2210422424000704-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141541962","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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Role of local governments and households in low-waste city transitions 地方政府和家庭在低废物城市转型中的作用

IF 5.7 2区经济学

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2024.100879

Ruth Lane , Annica Kronsell , David Reynolds , Rob Raven , Jo Lindsay

{"title":"Role of local governments and households in low-waste city transitions","authors":"Ruth Lane , Annica Kronsell , David Reynolds , Rob Raven , Jo Lindsay","doi":"10.1016/j.eist.2024.100879","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2024.100879","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Local governments are placing greater requirements on households to sort and reduce their waste. The research draws on experimental governance scholarship to explore the transformative capacity of local government in low waste sustainability transitions and how this is given form through engaging households in new waste management initiatives. Australia, a high-income county with one of the highest per-capita rates of waste generation globally, faces significant challenges for low waste city transitions. We conducted a desktop review of local government waste initiatives across Melbourne, Adelaide and Brisbane, and recorded interviews with nine waste managers. While the traditional service provider role remains important, municipalities are introducing new ways of addressing the waste problem that rely on actions by other parties, including households. Roles of promoter, enabler and partner are employed to experiment with new initiatives. The promoter role is an important initial stage, but the enabler and partner roles have most potential to orchestrate households as active innovation and change agents in low waste transitions and contribute to broader shifts in social norms and practices.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54294,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions","volume":"52 ","pages":"Article 100879"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210422424000698/pdfft?md5=9dfb1e40a707b90db1ea7eee0cb04de4&pid=1-s2.0-S2210422424000698-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141480366","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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Phase-outs at the edge of the world: Interconnections between energy futures and place-making in the strategic outpost Longyearbyen, Svalbard 世界边缘的淘汰：斯瓦尔巴群岛朗伊尔城战略前哨的能源未来与地方建设之间的相互联系

IF 5.7 2区经济学

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2024-06-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2024.100877

Birgitte Nygaard

{"title":"Phase-outs at the edge of the world: Interconnections between energy futures and place-making in the strategic outpost Longyearbyen, Svalbard","authors":"Birgitte Nygaard","doi":"10.1016/j.eist.2024.100877","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2024.100877","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>As Longyearbyen, Svalbard, embarks on a transition away from the century-long reliance on coal as the backbone of the Arctic community, existing understandings of place are destabilised. However, as an important Norwegian outpost in an increasingly tense Arctic geopolitical landscape, the phase-out transcends local visions for Longyearbyen and its new energy system. Drawing upon a mix of semi-structured interviews, fieldwork, and desk research, this paper examines the interconnected imagined socio-spatial and sociotechnical futures through the concept of place-framing. Identifying key actors, conflicts, and place-frames, three place-frames emerged: i) the environmental, ii) the techno-economic, and iii) the social, highlighting respectively the nature, renewable technology research, development, and innovation, and the social community as potential core anchors for the future Longyearbyen after coal. The paper underlines a need to attend more closely to the multi-scalarity of such processes to better understand the what's, how's, where's, and who's of imagined futures following phase-outs.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54294,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions","volume":"52 ","pages":"Article 100877"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210422424000674/pdfft?md5=5adde5b63691a9b761b8049967c2a675&pid=1-s2.0-S2210422424000674-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141480367","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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