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Broadening project studies to address sustainability transitions: Conceptual suggestions and crossovers with socio-technical transitions research
Get PDFAcademic and socio-political interest in sustainability transitions, which are decades-long change processes in socio-technical systems, is rapidly increasing. To further engage with this topic, this essay suggests that project studies should continue its trend of conceptual broadening that has characterised the field in the past decade. Using the Multi-Level Perspective on socio-technical transitions as a meta-framework, this essay identifies and discusses the important roles of incremental improvement projects, exploratory projects, deployment projects, reorientation projects, and decommissioning projects in sustainability transitions. The essay also discusses crossovers with socio-technical transitions research and makes specific conceptual suggestions for broadening research on the different kinds of projects, programmes and portfolios
W. F. Mitchell
No full textEarlier this year, an article was published in the News Bulletin
(February 2012) on the background of Captain Boyns Hedley
Hocking, a dentist who became one of the first casualties in the
bombing of Darwin in 1942. The author, W F Mitchell, has kindly
provided a summary of the 70th anniversary activities held in
Darwin in February 2012 to commemorate this significant event in
the Northern Territory?s historyDate:2012-09News Bulletin no. 413, p. 36 - 37
Assessing the George W. Bush Presidency: A Tale of Two Terms
Get PDFIn one of the first volumes assessing the full two terms of the George W. Bush presidency, Wroe and Herbert have gathered the work of leading American and European scholars. In fifteen succinct and incisive chapters, authorities such as Jim Pfiffner, John Maltese, Graham Wilson and Alan Gitelson offer assessments of the Bush administration's successes and failures. Extensive attention is paid to Bush's foreign policy, including 'The War on Terror' but the focus is broadened to absorb not only the Bush Doctrine and its repercussions, but also his trade and homeland security policies. The president's domestic leadership in economics and social policy is investigated, as are his dealings as president with the other institutions of the U.S. political system. The result is a comprehensive guide to the Bush presidency and its legacy
The enactment of socio-technical transition pathways: A reformulated typology and a comparative multi-level analysis of the German and UK low-carbon electricity transitions (1990–2014)
No full textThis data is being made available as part of The Data Ark project (https://osf.io/view/DataArk/) and has been shared with the authors' permission. Citation for original article: Geels, F. W., Kern, F., Fuchs, G., Hinderer, N., Kungl, G., Mylan, J., Neukirch, M., & Wassermann, S. (2016). The enactment of socio-technical transition pathways: A reformulated typology and a comparative multi-level analysis of the German and UK low-carbon electricity transitions (1990–2014). Research Policy, 45(4), 896–913. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2016.01.01
The enactment of socio-technical transition pathways: A reformulated typology and a comparative multi-level analysis of the German and UK low-carbon electricity transitions (1990–2014)
No full textThis data is being made available as part of The Data Ark project (https://osf.io/view/DataArk/) and has been shared with the authors' permission. Citation for original article: Geels, F. W., Kern, F., Fuchs, G., Hinderer, N., Kungl, G., Mylan, J., Neukirch, M., & Wassermann, S. (2016). The enactment of socio-technical transition pathways: A reformulated typology and a comparative multi-level analysis of the German and UK low-carbon electricity transitions (1990–2014). Research Policy, 45(4), 896–913. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2016.01.01
Technological transitions and socio-technical scenarios. In: Dolfsma W., Geels F., Kemp R., Moors E., Rip A. (eds)
No full textSustainability transitions in consumption-production systems
No full textThe need for faster and deeper transitions toward more sustainable development pathways is now widely recognized. How to meet that need has been at the center of a growing body of academic research and real-world policy implementation. This paper presents our perspective on some of the most powerful insights that have emerged from this ongoing work. In particular, we highlight insights on how sustainability transitions can be usefully conceptualized, how they come about and evolve, and how they can be shaped and guided through deliberate policy interventions. Throughout the paper, we also highlight some of the many how questions that remain unresolved and on which progress would be especially helpful for the pursuit of sustainable development. Our approach to these “how” questions on sustainability transitions draws on two strands of solution-driven research and policy advice: one emerging from studies of how human societies interact with nature and the other emerging from studies of how those societies interact with their technologies. Consumption-production systems have been a focus of extensive work in both strands. To help build bridges between them, we recently brought together a cross-section of relevant scholars for a PNAS Special Feature on “Sustainability transitions in consumption-production systems.” Their contributions are summarized in a companion paper we have written to introduce the Special Feature [F. W. Geels, F. Kern, W. C. Clark, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (2023)]. We draw on that work in the Perspective we present here as well as our reading of the relevant literatures
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The performance of practice: an alternative approach to attitudinal and behavioural ‘customer segmentation’ for the UK water industry
Get PDFDeveloping a comprehensive picture of the nature of current water demand is vital to forecasts of future water demand, as well as to inform demand management interventions and water efficiency programs. One way that water companies in the UK are starting to develop this picture is through the use of proxy variables such as demographics that are then used to segment people to explain patterns in people’s water use based on values, attitudes, and behaviours. However, as is the case with many environmental management settings, this current approach to attitudinal or behavioural segmentation fails to take into account the constantly observed value/attitude behaviour gap in water use, and offers little to the idea of intervention beyond a simple provision of technology and information to similarly ‘averaged’ customers. This paper offers an alternative theoretical and methodological perspective to the idea of segmentation based on depth of understanding of everyday practice, and highlights how a change of the unit of analysis from ‘individuals’ to ‘practices’ opens up a wealth of possibility for understanding water demand, and conceptualising forecasting and intervention for the water industry
Czynniki instytucjonalno-prawne transformacji energetycznej w Unii Europejskiej
No full textThe subject of the research problem addressed in the article concerns the importance of institutional and legal (or, more broadly, political) factors of energy transition in the European Union. Following Aleh Cherp and his team, political factors are understood as state objectives, political interests and institutional capabilities and factors of other types. All of them, as a whole, enter into a relationship with other factors, such as socio-technical and techno-economic ones. Referring to F. W. Geels, the European Union can be defined as a kind of socio-technical regime (energy regime), responsive to internal or external threats or adverse events. The main purpose of the analysis is to present the relationship between the institutional and legal, socio-technical, and techno-economic factors. In order to specify the research problem, the research question has been posed of the extent to which institutional and legal factors affect energy transition in the European Union. To answer this question, the analysis relies on the theoretical aspects of energy transition studies, the institutional and legal approach and secondary statistical data.Zakres przedmiotowy problemu badawczego tekstu dotyczy znaczenia czynników instytucjonalno-prawnych, szerzej ujmowanych jako polityczne, transformacji energetycznej w Unii Europejskiej. Przez „czynniki polityczne” rozumie się – za A. Cherpem i zespołem – cele państwowe, interesy polityczne oraz możliwości instytucjonalne i czynniki innego typu. Wszystkie one, jako całość, pozostają w relacji z innymi, do których należy zaliczyć: społeczno-techniczne i techniczno-ekonomiczne. Z kolei za F. W. Geelsem Unię Europejską można określić mianem swoistego reżimu społeczno-technologicznego (reżimu energetycznego), responsywnego wobec wewnętrznych lub zewnętrznych zagrożeń albo zdarzeń niepożądanych. Głównym celem analizy jest prezentacja relacji, jaka występuje między czynnikami: instytucjonalno-prawnym i społeczno-technologicznym oraz techniczno-ekonomicznym. W celu uszczegółowienia zakresu przedmiotowego problemu badawczego w tekście wskazano następujące pytanie badawcze: „W jakim stopniu czynniki instytucjonalno-prawne wpływają na transformację energetyczną w Unii Europejskiej?”. Aby odpowiedzieć na to pytanie, analizę w tekście oparto na teoretycznych aspektach studiów nad transformacją energetyczną, ujęciu instytucjonalno-prawnym oraz wtórnych danych statystycznych
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