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Reflexive governance in the transformation of utility systems
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Voß, Jan-Peter ; Truffer, Bernhard and Konrad, Kornelia: Sustainability foresight : reflexive governance in the transformation of utility systems. - In: Voß, Jan-Peter ; Bauknecht, Dierk and Kemp, René: Reflexive governance for sustainable development. - Cheltenham : Edward Elgar, 2006. - ISBN: 978-1-84542-582-1. - pp. 162–188
Ein ko-evolutorischer Ansatz zur Analyse, Bewertung und Gestaltung nachhaltiger Entwicklung
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Voß, Jan-Peter; Truffer, Bernhard; Konrad, Kornelia: Sustainability Foresight für Versorgungssysteme : Ein ko-evolutorischer Ansatz zur Analyse, Bewertung und Gestaltung nachhaltiger Entwicklung. - In: Meyerhoff, Jürgen: Innovation und Nachhaltigkeit. - Marburg: Metropolis-Verlag, 2005. - (Jahrbuch Ökologische Ökonomik ; 4). - ISBN: 3-89518-497-7. - S. 175–200
The Local Sources of Market Formation: Explaining Regional Growth Differentials in German Photovoltaic Markets
No full textSustainability Foresight as a method to shape socio-technical transformation in utility systems
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Voß, Jan-Peter; Truffer, Bernhard; Konrad, Kornelia: Sustainability Foresight as a method to shape socio-technical transformation in utility systems. - In: Bammé, Arno; Getzinger, Günter; Wieser, Bernhard (Ed.): Yearbook 2005 of the Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society. - München, Wien: Profil-Verlag, 2005. - (Technik- und Wissenschaftsforschung ; 47). - ISBN: 3-89019-595-4. pp. 285–305.Utility systems for the provision of electricity, gas, water or telecommunication are at the interface of society and nature. They are of central importance for sustainable development but particularly difficult to shape. Large technical systems are intertwined with patterns of market organisation, administrative institutions, user routines and policy networks. Transformation is not matter of planning and control but of co-evolution across such heterogeneous domains. The transformation of utility systems thus exemplifies the limits of conventional steering approaches to achieve sustainable development. Shaping strategies are needed which take up uncertainty, ambivalence and distributed influence as basic features of shaping sustainable development. Sustainability Foresight represents a method that is currently being probed in German utility systems
Places and Spaces of Sustainability Transitions: Geographical Contributions to an Emerging Research and Policy Field
No full textWissensintegration in transdisziplinären Projekten. Flexibles Rollenverständnis als Schlüsselkompetenz für das Schnittstellenmanagement
No full textThe improved integration of disparate knowledge stocks is one of the key promises of transdisciplinary research. This present paper illustrates the multifaceted characteristics of knowledge integration by analysing the experience gained through a major transdisciplinary research project
on green certification procedures for hydropower plants. These lessons learned allow a better understanding of the challenge to manage the diversity of interfaces between different actors and different forms of knowledge.</jats:p
Environmental Innovation and Sustainability Transitions in Regional Studies
No full textTRUFFER B. and COENEN L. Environmental innovation and sustainability transitions in regional studies, Regional Studies. Sustainable development and environmental innovations have received increasing attention in regional studies and the related literature. In how far sustainability concerns might also lead to fundamental transformations in technologies, industries and lifestyles (so-called sustainability transitions) has, however, found much less resonance. Sustainability transitions have been in the focus of scholars from the field of innovation studies. However, until recently, these approaches mostly disregarded spatial aspects. This paper therefore maps out a field of future research - the geography of sustainability transitions - that might be beneficially laboured by both traditions. The paper introduces the core concepts, but also the limitations of the transitions literature. After reviewing salient lines of sustainability-related research in regional studies, the paper specifies promising research areas at the interface between both fields. Empirical illustrations will be provided from recent work in sustainability transitions research venturing into this interface
Toward a spacial perspective on sustainability transitions
Full text linkIn the past decade, the literature on transitions toward sustainable socio-technical systems has made a considerable contribution in understanding the complex and multi-dimensional shifts considered necessary to adapt societies and economies to sustainable modes of production and consumption. However, transition analyses have often neglected where transitions take place, and the spatial configurations and dynamics of the networks within which transitions evolve. A more explicit spatial perspective on sustainability transitions contributes to the extant transitions literature in three ways. Firstly it provides a contextualization on the limited territorial sensitivity of existing literature. Secondly, it explicitly acknowledges and investigates diversity in transition processes, which follows from a 'natural' variety in institutional conditions, networks, actor strategies and resources across space. Thirdly, it encompasses not only greater emphasis but also an opportunity to connect to a body of literature geared to understanding the international, trans-local nature of transition dynamics. Concerned with the prevalent lack of attention for the spatial dimensions of sustainability transitions in most studies, this paper seeks to unpick and make explicit sustainability transition geographies from the vantage point of economic geography. The paper argues that there are two interrelated problems requiring attention: the institutional embeddedness of socio-technical development processes within specific territorial spaces, and an explicit multi-scalar conception of socio-technical trajectories. Following these arguments, the paper concludes that transitions research would do well to take a closer look at the geographical unevenness of transition processes from the perspective of global networks and local nodes. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved
The optimal degree of centralisation for wastewater infrastructures. A model-based geospatial economic analysis
No full textPlanung, Bewertung und Entscheidungsprozesse im Fliessgewässer Management: Kennzeichen erfolgreicher Revitalisierungsprojekte
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