Pub Date : 2025-02-17DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.100971
Maximilian Benner
While climate change is arguably the most urgent global environmental challenge, there are further, and often related, worrying human overshoots of planetary boundaries. These multiple challenges can express themselves differently in regions and have, therefore, implications for the course and shape of regional industrial transitions. This article focuses on specific regional industrial transitions which are particularly complicated but have attracted scant scholarly attention so far. As the example of the chemical industry shows, the environmental challenges that some regions face are multiple in the sense that industrial transitions in these regions have to respond not only to the global challenge of climate change but also to local environmental challenges such as various types of toxic pollution associated with adverse impacts on the natural environment and public health. Due to their particularly sophisticated demands, multiple-challenge regional industrial transitions merit more scholarly attention.
{"title":"Multiple-challenge regional industrial transitions: The example of chemical regions","authors":"Maximilian Benner","doi":"10.1016/j.eist.2025.100971","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eist.2025.100971","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>While climate change is arguably the most urgent global environmental challenge, there are further, and often related, worrying human overshoots of planetary boundaries. These multiple challenges can express themselves differently in regions and have, therefore, implications for the course and shape of regional industrial transitions. This article focuses on specific regional industrial transitions which are particularly complicated but have attracted scant scholarly attention so far. As the example of the chemical industry shows, the environmental challenges that some regions face are multiple in the sense that industrial transitions in these regions have to respond not only to the global challenge of climate change but also to local environmental challenges such as various types of toxic pollution associated with adverse impacts on the natural environment and public health. Due to their particularly sophisticated demands, multiple-challenge regional industrial transitions merit more scholarly attention.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54294,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions","volume":"55 ","pages":"Article 100971"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143429006","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}
Pub Date : 2025-02-15DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.100969
Darren Sierhuis
Urban experimentation has gained traction with (supra-)national and local politics as a method for catalyzing change in urban systems and practices. Yet, with experiments becoming more commonly driven by established actors, concerns persist about their potential to sidestep political issues of power, exclusion and conflict fundamental to societal change. This paper seeks to unpack what exactly is at stake when the political is ignored or neutralized during an urban experiment. Using theories on the political as an analytical lens, the paper presents a case study of an urban experiment in Amsterdam, dissecting the ways in which (de)politicization operates in the experiment. The findings demonstrate that ignoring the political in urban experimentation risks excluding certain voices and options from being considered, which ultimately leads to stagnation. The paper concludes by outlining future challenges for research and practice that addresses (de)politicization in urban experiments.
{"title":"Exploring (De)politicization in policy-driven urban sustainability experiments: Insights from a case study in Amsterdam","authors":"Darren Sierhuis","doi":"10.1016/j.eist.2025.100969","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eist.2025.100969","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Urban experimentation has gained traction with (supra-)national and local politics as a method for catalyzing change in urban systems and practices. Yet, with experiments becoming more commonly driven by established actors, concerns persist about their potential to sidestep political issues of power, exclusion and conflict fundamental to societal change. This paper seeks to unpack what exactly is at stake when the political is ignored or neutralized during an urban experiment. Using theories on the political as an analytical lens, the paper presents a case study of an urban experiment in Amsterdam, dissecting the ways in which (de)politicization operates in the experiment. The findings demonstrate that ignoring the political in urban experimentation risks excluding certain voices and options from being considered, which ultimately leads to stagnation. The paper concludes by outlining future challenges for research and practice that addresses (de)politicization in urban experiments.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54294,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions","volume":"55 ","pages":"Article 100969"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143422001","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}
Pub Date : 2025-02-07DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.100968
Jasper G.W. van Dijk , Anna J. Wieczorek , Josette M.P. Gevers , Martijn L.P. Groenleer
While the literature increasingly highlights the importance of governance capacities for transformative change, their development remains understudied. This paper responds to this research gap by proposing an integrative analytical framework to study how governance actors exercise their collective agency to develop governance capacities for transformative change. We introduce shared intentions as a core aspect of collective agency through which governance actors develop governance capacities and integrate this notion with a perspective of strong structuration. We illustrate the framework's application with a case study of the Eindhoven Metropolitan Region, drawing from a set of in-depth interviews with key civil servants, policy document review and participant observation. Application of the framework allowed us to identify two key underlying forces driving governance capacities development: (1) social learning processes through which governance actors learn about how to collectively respond to external developments and challenges and (2) path dependence, which provides directionality to capacities development.
{"title":"“Developing governance capacities for regional energy transition: The case of Eindhoven Metropolitan Region”","authors":"Jasper G.W. van Dijk , Anna J. Wieczorek , Josette M.P. Gevers , Martijn L.P. Groenleer","doi":"10.1016/j.eist.2025.100968","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eist.2025.100968","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>While the literature increasingly highlights the importance of governance capacities for transformative change, their development remains understudied. This paper responds to this research gap by proposing an integrative analytical framework to study how governance actors exercise their collective agency to develop governance capacities for transformative change. We introduce shared intentions as a core aspect of collective agency through which governance actors develop governance capacities and integrate this notion with a perspective of strong structuration. We illustrate the framework's application with a case study of the Eindhoven Metropolitan Region, drawing from a set of in-depth interviews with key civil servants, policy document review and participant observation. Application of the framework allowed us to identify two key underlying forces driving governance capacities development: (1) social learning processes through which governance actors learn about how to collectively respond to external developments and challenges and (2) path dependence, which provides directionality to capacities development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54294,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions","volume":"55 ","pages":"Article 100968"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143349916","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}
Pub Date : 2025-02-06DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.100965
Liza Wood, Mark Lubell
Innovation systems are relational, with actors forming connections to enhance system functions. What drives these connections? The resource-based theory of system building suggests actors pursue relationships based on resource availability and distribution. Network theory adds that social processes vary across innovation system functions, affecting configurations and actor involvement. This study examines these ideas using the case of the US organic seed niche, operationalizing the seed innovation system as four functional networks. The analysis shows that all the functional networks are shaped by “partner mode” structures, suggesting that cooperative relationships form when resources are available and distributed, with some variation across functions. Institutional affiliations also affect actors' involvement in specific innovation system functions, with differences between non-profit and for-profit actors. This research advances sustainability transitions by empirically testing and extending existing theories with network analysis, offering generalizable insights into innovation system formation.
{"title":"Resource constellations and institutional logics shape network structures of the organic seed niche innovation system","authors":"Liza Wood, Mark Lubell","doi":"10.1016/j.eist.2025.100965","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eist.2025.100965","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Innovation systems are relational, with actors forming connections to enhance system functions. What drives these connections? The resource-based theory of system building suggests actors pursue relationships based on resource availability and distribution. Network theory adds that social processes vary across innovation system functions, affecting configurations and actor involvement. This study examines these ideas using the case of the US organic seed niche, operationalizing the seed innovation system as four functional networks. The analysis shows that all the functional networks are shaped by “partner mode” structures, suggesting that cooperative relationships form when resources are available and distributed, with some variation across functions. Institutional affiliations also affect actors' involvement in specific innovation system functions, with differences between non-profit and for-profit actors. This research advances sustainability transitions by empirically testing and extending existing theories with network analysis, offering generalizable insights into innovation system formation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54294,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions","volume":"55 ","pages":"Article 100965"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143359210","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}
Pub Date : 2025-02-05DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.100966
Simona A. Bălan , Saskia K. van Bergen , Ann Blake , Topher Buck , Scott Coffin , Jamie C. DeWitt , Gretta Goldenman , Frank A. von Hippel , Sophia von Hippel , Christopher P. Leonetti , David Rist , Martin Scheringer , Xenia Trier
Climate change and chemical pollution are interdependent planetary threats, but climate change mitigation efforts typically do not consider chemicals and materials. This may exacerbate chemical pollution and associated harm to human and environmental health. Because most chemicals and materials are currently derived from petrochemicals, the extraction of fossil fuels cannot be limited without transitioning chemical manufacturing to different carbon sources. However, simply changing the carbon source is insufficient and could exacerbate the biodiversity crisis. We propose a comprehensive strategy to address the interconnections between chemical pollution, climate change, and biodiversity loss. This includes incentives for key actors to reduce the global production and consumption of chemicals and materials, to transition to chemicals and products that are safe and sustainable by design, to develop metrics and targets to assess progress, and to continuously evaluate and modify strategies based on performance metrics.
{"title":"Confronting the interconnection of chemical pollution and climate change","authors":"Simona A. Bălan , Saskia K. van Bergen , Ann Blake , Topher Buck , Scott Coffin , Jamie C. DeWitt , Gretta Goldenman , Frank A. von Hippel , Sophia von Hippel , Christopher P. Leonetti , David Rist , Martin Scheringer , Xenia Trier","doi":"10.1016/j.eist.2025.100966","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eist.2025.100966","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Climate change and chemical pollution are interdependent planetary threats, but climate change mitigation efforts typically do not consider chemicals and materials. This may exacerbate chemical pollution and associated harm to human and environmental health. Because most chemicals and materials are currently derived from petrochemicals, the extraction of fossil fuels cannot be limited without transitioning chemical manufacturing to different carbon sources. However, simply changing the carbon source is insufficient and could exacerbate the biodiversity crisis. We propose a comprehensive strategy to address the interconnections between chemical pollution, climate change, and biodiversity loss. This includes incentives for key actors to reduce the global production and consumption of chemicals and materials, to transition to chemicals and products that are safe and sustainable by design, to develop metrics and targets to assess progress, and to continuously evaluate and modify strategies based on performance metrics.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54294,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions","volume":"55 ","pages":"Article 100966"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143333383","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}
Pub Date : 2025-01-31DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.100964
Ronan Bolton , Helen Poulter
This paper analyses how uncertainties around the uptake of heat pumps and electric vehicles (low carbon technologies) are being managed within the regulatory regime for electricity distribution networks in Britain. Within the sustainability transitions field several studies have identified electricity networks and regulation as an important topic and have focused on the introduction of innovation incentives for monopoly network companies. The main contribution made to this research agenda is to broaden the frame of analysis from innovation policy to examine the challenges associated with whole system reconfiguration and the transformation of incumbent regulatory regimes. The empirical basis of the paper is an analysis of regulatory decision making in relation to the approval of large capital investments in regional electricity distribution networks. We analyse attempts to reconfigure the networks and the incumbent regulatory regime, focusing on efforts to align network planning and regulation with net zero.
{"title":"Low carbon technologies and the grid: Analysing regulation and transitions in electricity networks","authors":"Ronan Bolton , Helen Poulter","doi":"10.1016/j.eist.2025.100964","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eist.2025.100964","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper analyses how uncertainties around the uptake of heat pumps and electric vehicles (low carbon technologies) are being managed within the regulatory regime for electricity distribution networks in Britain. Within the sustainability transitions field several studies have identified electricity networks and regulation as an important topic and have focused on the introduction of innovation incentives for monopoly network companies. The main contribution made to this research agenda is to broaden the frame of analysis from innovation policy to examine the challenges associated with whole system reconfiguration and the transformation of incumbent regulatory regimes. The empirical basis of the paper is an analysis of regulatory decision making in relation to the approval of large capital investments in regional electricity distribution networks. We analyse attempts to reconfigure the networks and the incumbent regulatory regime, focusing on efforts to align network planning and regulation with net zero.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54294,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions","volume":"55 ","pages":"Article 100964"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143179769","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}
Pub Date : 2025-01-25DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.100963
Sophie-Marie Ertelt , Tom Hawxwell
The German transportation sector's negative contribution to climate change amongst broader social, environmental, and economic problems is applying evermore pressure to the prevailing automobility regime to bring about its transformation. However, the vision of this transition, referred to as the Verkehrswende or Mobilitätswende, is highly contested, with varying conceptions of different actors about the future of mobility in Germany. A discourse network analysis (DNA) is performed to examine the development of the related policy debate, identify key problem and solution framings and analyse the overall discourse evolution from 2018 to mid-2023. The findings highlight how recent exogenous events shape and reframe the discourse, inciting debates around viable mobility futures. Further, our analysis uncovers a novel discursive strategy termed repugnostic framing, through which incumbent actors aim to oppose the framings of other discursive agents, leading to increased lines of conflict and polarisation, thus possibly hindering effective policy implementation.
{"title":"The polysemous nature of the German Verkehrswende—Exploring the role of floating signifiers in shaping mobility futures","authors":"Sophie-Marie Ertelt , Tom Hawxwell","doi":"10.1016/j.eist.2025.100963","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eist.2025.100963","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The German transportation sector's negative contribution to climate change amongst broader social, environmental, and economic problems is applying evermore pressure to the prevailing automobility regime to bring about its transformation. However, the vision of this transition, referred to as the <em>Verkehrswende</em> or <em>Mobilitätswende</em>, is highly contested, with varying conceptions of different actors about the future of mobility in Germany. A discourse network analysis (DNA) is performed to examine the development of the related policy debate, identify key problem and solution framings and analyse the overall discourse evolution from 2018 to mid-2023. The findings highlight how recent exogenous events shape and reframe the discourse, inciting debates around viable mobility futures. Further, our analysis uncovers a novel discursive strategy termed repugnostic framing, through which incumbent actors aim to oppose the framings of other discursive agents, leading to increased lines of conflict and polarisation, thus possibly hindering effective policy implementation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54294,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions","volume":"55 ","pages":"Article 100963"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143049886","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}
Regions reliant on declining fossil fuel production often grapple with upcoming deindustrialisation, economic decline, and deterioration of liveability. In attempts to address these issues proactively, local change agents, including sub-national government authorities, increasingly collaborate to develop new, more sustainable and just regional pathways. A potential yet not uncontested stepping stone towards such pathways is co-creative asset redevelopment. In this paper, we focus on the role of sub-national government authorities in co-creative redevelopment. Particularly, we zoom in on the legitimacy challenges that these authorities face and must address for co-creative redevelopment to have transformative capacity. We draw on insights from the case of GZI Next in Emmen, the Netherlands, and identify six challenges, amongst others intra-organisational conflicts of interests, accountability issues, and competing claims to the right to a just transition. We reflect on these challenges and how to overcome them and propose avenues for future research.
{"title":"Challenge accepted: Sub-national government authorities and the legitimacy of co-creative redevelopment projects in fossil-industrial regions","authors":"T.S.G.H. Rodhouse , E.H.W.J. Cuppen , U. Pesch , A.F. Correljé","doi":"10.1016/j.eist.2025.100962","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eist.2025.100962","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Regions reliant on declining fossil fuel production often grapple with upcoming deindustrialisation, economic decline, and deterioration of liveability. In attempts to address these issues proactively, local change agents, including sub-national government authorities, increasingly collaborate to develop new, more sustainable and just regional pathways. A potential yet not uncontested stepping stone towards such pathways is co-creative asset redevelopment. In this paper, we focus on the role of sub-national government authorities in co-creative redevelopment. Particularly, we zoom in on the legitimacy challenges that these authorities face and must address for co-creative redevelopment to have transformative capacity. We draw on insights from the case of GZI Next in Emmen, the Netherlands, and identify six challenges, amongst others intra-organisational conflicts of interests, accountability issues, and competing claims to the right to a just transition. We reflect on these challenges and how to overcome them and propose avenues for future research.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54294,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions","volume":"55 ","pages":"Article 100962"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143179771","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}
Pub Date : 2024-12-31DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2024.100958
Marika Silvikko de Villafranca, Sini Numminen, Sampsa Hyysalo
Households are moving beyond the adoption of single renewable energy technologies. Additive adoption of heating systems has resulted in ‘hybrid heating’ comprised of several complementary energy systems. The hybridization of heating is spreading rapidly among households, featuring high diversity regarding both the make-up of hybrid solutions and the householders who create them. Our close-up study of 56 Finnish households characterizes different aspects of hybrid heating and their interrelations. Households display considerable agency in setting-up, running and adjusting and innovating in their hybrids. Hybrid heating can be conceptualized as configurational arrangements that are made to ‘work’ in a particular setting, meshing, e.g. material, social and economic resources. From a policy perspective ‘hybrid heaters’ are not a coherent group to which supporting measures are easy to target. Yet this diversity also indicates a broadly distributed capacity for households to advance the low carbon energy transitions through hybridization of heating.
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Pub Date : 2024-12-30DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2024.100961
Lingchuan Song , Yan Sun , Xiaofei Gao
While clean energy facilities (CEFs) play a crucial role in advancing the energy transition and in achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7, incumbents in the clean energy market often face public concerns stemming from wrongdoing and accidents within the industry, prompting them to engage in legitimacy maintenance for their CEFs. We know little about the specific strategies incumbents employ for this purpose. To address this gap, we conducted a qualitative study focusing on the State Power Investment Corporation Limited (SPIC) in China. Our findings extend existing research on organizational legitimacy by revealing five discursive and three visual strategies of legitimation. We further highlight two specific forms of intermodal associations between discursive and visual modes: concurrence and complementarity. Moreover, our study contributes to the energy transition literature by explaining how these discursive and visual strategies benefit incumbents in the clean energy market.
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