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Maritime technology attention trends: Buzzwords, stability, and emerging patterns 海事技术关注趋势：流行语、稳定性和新兴模式

IF 6.1 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Pub Date : 2025-08-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101035

Mehrnaz Jalali, Alessio Tei

This paper presents a systematic literature review (SLR) to differentiate between transient buzzwords and sustained technological trends in maritime technology by analyzing attention patterns over time. Using temporal data from academic publications, industry news, and EU-funded projects, we identify key trends shaping the sector’s technological discourse. Our findings indicate that alternative fuels, green propulsion, decarbonization, electrification, and automation receive sustained attention across research, policy, and industry, highlighting their long-term relevance. Artificial intelligence (AI) and smart ports demonstrate stable momentum, though policy engagement lags behind industry adoption. Green ports exhibit steady growth, reflecting challenges in infrastructure modernization. Automated identification system (AIS) Automated identification system (AIS)¹ remains widely discussed as an established technology rather than an emerging trend. In contrast, blockchain and internet of things (IoT) follow hype cycles, experiencing sharp attention spikes before declining. Big data and cloud computing, while still in use, have transitioned from broad discussions to specialized applications, reducing their prominence in wider discourse. Digital twins sustain research interest but face slow industry uptake, while Port Community Systems (PCS) and synchromodality display inconsistent attention patterns, suggesting early-stage development. This analysis provides insights into how maritime technologies gain and sustain attention over time, helping researchers, policymakers, and industry stakeholders distinguish between fleeting hype and transformative trends in maritime innovation.

本文通过对海事技术中短暂流行语和持续技术趋势的注意模式分析，进行了系统的文献综述（SLR）。利用来自学术出版物、行业新闻和欧盟资助项目的时间数据，我们确定了塑造该行业技术话语的关键趋势。我们的研究结果表明，替代燃料、绿色推进、脱碳、电气化和自动化得到了研究、政策和行业的持续关注，凸显了它们的长期相关性。人工智能（AI）和智能港口表现出稳定的势头，尽管政策参与落后于行业采用。绿色港口稳步增长，反映了基础设施现代化的挑战。自动识别系统（AIS）仍然作为一种成熟的技术而不是新兴的趋势而被广泛讨论。相比之下，区块链和物联网（IoT）遵循炒作周期，经历了急剧的关注高峰，然后下降。大数据和云计算虽然仍在使用，但已经从广泛的讨论过渡到专门的应用，减少了它们在更广泛讨论中的重要性。数字孪生保持了研究兴趣，但面临缓慢的行业吸收，而港口社区系统（PCS）和同步模式显示不一致的注意力模式，表明早期发展。该分析提供了关于海事技术如何随着时间的推移而获得和保持关注的见解，帮助研究人员、政策制定者和行业利益相关者区分海事创新的短暂炒作和变革趋势。

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Municipally owned companies and sustainability transitions: Examining municipal parking companies’ roles in governing urban mobility transitions 市政公司与可持续发展转型：考察市政停车公司在管理城市交通转型中的作用

IF 6.1 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Pub Date : 2025-08-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101036

Göran Smith , Steven Sarasini

Municipally owned companies are increasingly being used to deliver public services in Western Europe. Yet, their roles in governing sustainability transitions remain understudied. This paper therefore investigates the roles and interventions of three Swedish municipal parking companies in realizing municipal goals of replacing urban car traffic with shared and active mobility. The analysis, based on thematic coding of policy documents and interviews with executives and strategists, shows that the municipal parking companies play several complementary roles in stimulating and accelerating shared and active mobility niches, but act more passively and indirectly with respect to other intervention points, such as destabilizing urban automobility regimes. It also illustrates how institutional conditions influence the companies’ roles by shaping their actual, perceived, and considered action spaces. The combination of political and market logics that characterizes municipally owned companies enables niche experimentation that would likely be difficult for both municipal administrations and privately owned companies to pursue. However, this combination of logics also makes it challenging for them to divest from prevalent regimes if the available niches cannot offer sufficiently large and reliable short-term profits. We conclude that municipally owned companies can extend municipalities’ governance capabilities, and thus their transformative capacities, especially by performing hands-on, operational activities such as leading experiments. Municipalities must, however, implement measures to decrease financial regime divestment risks for municipally owned companies if they are to substantially contribute to destabilizing prevailing regimes.

在西欧，市政所有的公司越来越多地被用来提供公共服务。然而，它们在治理可持续性转型中的作用仍未得到充分研究。因此，本文研究了三家瑞典市政停车公司在实现以共享和主动交通取代城市汽车交通的市政目标中的作用和干预措施。基于政策文件的主题编码和对高管和战略人员的访谈，分析表明，市政停车公司在刺激和加速共享和主动出行利基方面发挥了几个互补作用，但在其他干预点（如破坏城市汽车出行制度）方面表现得更为被动和间接。它还说明了制度条件如何通过塑造公司的实际、感知和考虑的行动空间来影响公司的角色。市属企业所特有的政治和市场逻辑相结合，使得小众实验成为可能，而这对于市政当局和私营企业来说可能都很难进行。然而，如果现有的利基市场不能提供足够大且可靠的短期利润，这种逻辑组合也使它们很难从流行的制度中撤资。我们得出的结论是，市政所有的公司可以扩展市政的治理能力，从而扩展其变革能力，特别是通过执行实际操作活动，如领导实验。然而，市政当局必须采取措施，减少市政所有公司的金融制度撤资风险，否则它们将大大破坏现行制度的稳定。

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Studying feelings in action: An analytical framework for empirical analyses of affect in sustainability transitions 研究行动中的情感：可持续转型中情感实证分析的分析框架

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Pub Date : 2025-08-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101031

Juliane Höhle, Katrien Van Poeck

Research on feelings and emotions has gained importance for understanding sustainability transitions in recent years. However, a central question remains unanswered: How precisely does affect influence the creation of change in sustainability transitions and which conditions shape this relation? This paper calls for detailed in-situ studies in which affect can be linked to changes in habits and practices. It proposes an analytical framework based on transactional pragmatism and inspired by dramaturgical analysis to facilitate future research on this topic. The Dramaturgical Analysis of Affect in Sustainability Transitions (DAAST) framework allows studying affect in the set-up and design of activities as well as the interactions of people, and how these conditions influence change in collective settings. The DAAST gives facilitators and intermediaries tools to understand affect in potentially conflictual settings such as transition arenas and urban experiments. The end of this paper discusses the uses, potential, and limitations of the framework.

近年来，对感受和情绪的研究对于理解可持续性转变变得越来越重要。然而，一个核心问题仍未得到解答：影响究竟在多大程度上影响了可持续性转型变化的产生，哪些条件形成了这种关系？这篇论文呼吁进行详细的原位研究，将影响与习惯和实践的变化联系起来。本文提出了一个基于交易实用主义和受戏剧分析启发的分析框架，以促进对这一主题的进一步研究。可持续转型中的影响的戏剧分析（DAAST）框架允许研究活动的设置和设计以及人们的互动中的影响，以及这些条件如何影响集体环境中的变化。DAAST为促进者和中介提供了工具，以了解在过渡领域和城市实验等潜在冲突环境中的影响。本文的最后讨论了该框架的用途、潜力和局限性。

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Workforce development in low-carbon energy transitions: The case of horizontal governance in Schleswig-Holstein (Germany) 低碳能源转型中的劳动力发展：以德国石勒苏益格-荷尔斯泰因州的横向治理为例

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Pub Date : 2025-08-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101040

Tim Weishaupt

The interplay between workforce dynamics and sustainability transitions has been examined across different research strands, yet often in isolation. Despite the need for horizontal policy alignment within transition governance, workforce development remains underexplored in policy mix research. This study examines how policy mixes unfold within the horizontal governance of the workforce in low-carbon energy transitions. It operationalises the core policy mix characteristics by exploring their interaction and feedback across horizontal scales of governance. Drawing on empirical evidence from the case of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, and based on content analysis and 22 interviews, this paper analyses policies and processes tackling labour shortages in the region’s energy transition. The findings reveal that energy workforce needs are poorly integrated across policy domains, with weak political commitment undermining credibility and delaying the development of instruments. Stakeholder-led initiatives compensate for policy shortcomings, yet their disconnection from formal structures limits collective learning and reinforces institutional inertia.

劳动力动态和可持续性转型之间的相互作用已经在不同的研究领域进行了研究，但往往是孤立的。尽管需要在转型治理中进行横向政策调整，但在政策组合研究中，劳动力发展仍未得到充分探索。本研究考察了在低碳能源转型中，政策混合如何在劳动力的横向治理中展开。它通过探索它们在治理水平尺度上的相互作用和反馈来实现核心政策组合特征。根据德国石勒苏益格-荷尔斯泰因州的经验证据，基于内容分析和22次访谈，本文分析了该地区能源转型中解决劳动力短缺问题的政策和流程。研究结果表明，能源劳动力需求在政策领域之间的整合很差，政治承诺薄弱削弱了可信度，并推迟了工具的开发。利益相关者主导的倡议弥补了政策缺陷，但它们与正式结构的脱节限制了集体学习，并加剧了制度惰性。

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Territorial transformation through circular bioeconomy transitions: Multiple case studies in the agri-food waste system on Reunion Island 通过循环生物经济转型的领土转型：留尼旺岛农业食品垃圾系统的多个案例研究

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Pub Date : 2025-08-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101038

Clement Jacquet , Tiago Teixeira Da Silva Siqueira

Circular bioeconomy is attracting increasing attention from public authorities and private stakeholders as a way to drive sustainable transitions in agri-food waste systems. The study of this concept can be particularly relevant in island contexts, which are highly dependent on external resources due to the importation of goods and services. This article analyzes the transition through a circular bioeconomy within the agri-food waste system in Reunion Island. To this end, we adopt a comprehensive approach integrating the Multi-Level Perspective (MLP) and territorial transformation frameworks. Both stakeholder perceptions of the circular bioeconomy concept and the limitations of its operationalization were analyzed, together with the diversity of circular bioeconomy innovation initiatives that have emerged and the role of public stakeholders in fostering their development. A stakeholder mapping and 44 semi-structured interviews were conducted. Analysis of the ideal dimension revealed that the reference framework surrounding the concept of circular bioeconomy remains ambiguous, particularly its implementation in the territoire. Analysis of the material dimension identified 40 innovation initiatives, grouped in three main categories representing the main pathways of transition: (i) replacing imported materials by local or more renewable alternatives; (ii) increasing the consumption of local food; and (iii) enhancing circularity through the expansion of organic matter recycling. Analysis of the institutional dimension highlighted the role of public action in supporting the emergence of circular bioeconomy innovation initiatives. Finally, certain stakeholders occupy privileged positions in dominant regimes positioning them as key drivers of circular bioeconomy transition on Reunion Island.

循环生物经济作为推动农业食品废弃物系统可持续转型的一种方式，正日益引起公共当局和私人利益攸关方的关注。对这一概念的研究可能特别适用于由于进口货物和服务而高度依赖外部资源的岛屿情况。本文通过循环生物经济分析了留尼旺岛农业食品垃圾系统的转型。为此，我们采用了一种整合多层次视角（MLP）和地域转换框架的综合方法。分析了利益相关者对循环生物经济概念的看法及其实施的局限性，以及已经出现的循环生物经济创新举措的多样性以及公共利益相关者在促进其发展中的作用。进行了利益相关者映射和44次半结构化访谈。对理想维度的分析表明，围绕循环生物经济概念的参考框架仍然模糊，特别是在该领土的实施。对材料方面的分析确定了40项创新举措，分为三个主要类别，代表了主要的过渡途径：(i)用当地或更多的可再生替代品取代进口材料；（ii）增加本地食物的消费；（三）扩大有机物循环利用，增强循环性。对制度层面的分析强调了公共行动在支持循环生物经济创新举措方面的作用。最后，某些利益相关者在主导制度中占据特权地位，使其成为留尼旺岛循环生物经济转型的关键驱动力。

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From commodity to commons: Understanding the transformative potential of mobility cooperatives for just sustainability transitions 从商品到公地：了解流动性合作社在可持续转型方面的变革潜力

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Pub Date : 2025-08-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101039

Emil Beemer, Gijs Diercks, Derk Loorbach

Dominant approaches to mobility transitions appear unable to address persistent problems of unsustainability and injustice. However, where regime actors fail, we expect to see alternative movements developing. This paper investigates the transformative potential of one such alternative – Dutch mobility cooperatives. We draw on transitions and commons literature to understand the role of mobility cooperatives in challenging the Dutch mobility regime and contributing to just sustainability transitions. Based on a single embedded case study design of the Dutch mobility cooperative movement, our results indicate that cooperatives succeed in prefiguring an alternative system based on collective ownership, community spirit, and self-governance. However, they remain entangled with regime characteristics of commodification, an individualist car culture, and market-state governance. We contribute a conceptual framework contrasting mobility commons with the incumbent regime, a deeper understanding of mobility cooperatives and their transformative potential for just mobility transitions, and strategies to further develop this potential.

流动性转型的主流方法似乎无法解决持续存在的不可持续性和不公正问题。然而，在政权参与者失败的地方，我们预计会看到替代运动的发展。本文研究了一种这样的替代变革潜力-荷兰流动合作社。我们利用转型和公地文献来了解流动性合作社在挑战荷兰流动性制度和促进公平可持续转型方面的作用。基于荷兰流动合作社运动的单一嵌入式案例研究设计，我们的研究结果表明，合作社成功地预示了一种基于集体所有制、社区精神和自治的替代制度。然而，它们仍然与商品化、个人主义汽车文化和市场国家治理的政权特征纠缠在一起。我们提出了一个将移动性公域与现有制度进行对比的概念框架，对移动性合作社及其在移动性转型方面的变革潜力有了更深入的了解，并提出了进一步开发这种潜力的战略。

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Experimenting to remain the same: The politics of smart grid pilot projects in the Swedish energy transition 保持不变的实验：瑞典能源转型中智能电网试点项目的政治

IF 6.1 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Pub Date : 2025-08-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101037

Fredrik Envall , Harald Rohracher

Experiments such as pilot projects and testbeds are a core element in governing sustainability transitions and have become increasingly popular as an instrument of environmental governance more broadly. However, despite its merits in creating diversity and novel configurations which eventually may replace dominant regimes, experimentation does not take place in a 'politics-free space' but is always prone to capture by powerful actors and interests. Through case studies of Swedish smart grid experiments, we unpack these risks associated with the capture of the design and implementation of experiments by incumbent corporate and administrative actors. Our primary analytical lens is one of micropolitical action spaces opened up by experiments as a governance technique and part of a dominant neoliberal discourse, and the active use of these spaces through micropolitical strategies of incumbent actors in order to pursue their interests, maintain dominant power relations and shape energy transition pathways to their benefit. Four incumbent micropolitical strategies are discussed in the analysis: limiting circulation of knowledge from experiments; influencing who is included and excluded in configurations enacted; reframing the problem of low-carbon (cities); and active alignment with policy goals as a means of persuasion and legitimization of the experiment. Despite their purported aim of learning about new sustainable socio-material arrangements and empowering energy users, the smart grid experiments we investigate rather create a depoliticized context to enact a future of the energy system which perpetuates powerful interests and established actor constellations notwithstanding differences in their local enactment.

试点项目和试验台等实验是管理可持续性过渡的核心要素，并且作为更广泛的环境治理工具越来越受欢迎。然而，尽管它在创造多样性和最终可能取代主导政权的新配置方面具有优点，但实验并不是在“无政治空间”中进行的，而是总是容易被强大的行动者和利益所捕获。通过对瑞典智能电网实验的案例研究，我们揭示了与现有企业和行政行为者捕获实验设计和实施相关的这些风险。我们的主要分析视角是，作为一种治理技术和主导的新自由主义话语的一部分，实验开辟的微观政治行动空间之一，以及现任行动者通过微观政治策略积极利用这些空间，以追求他们的利益，维持主导的权力关系，并塑造有利于他们的能源转型途径。分析中讨论了四种在位的微观政治策略：限制实验知识的流通；影响在制定的配置中包括谁和排除谁；重塑低碳（城市）问题；积极配合政策目标作为说服和合法化实验的手段。尽管他们的目标是学习新的可持续社会物质安排和赋予能源用户权力，但我们研究的智能电网实验创造了一个非政治化的背景，以制定能源系统的未来，尽管其地方法规存在差异，但该系统将延续强大的利益并建立行动者星座。

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Between the ‘Other’ and the ‘Same’: The alterity of the alternative economies in sustainability transitions 在“他者”和“相同者”之间：可持续性转型中替代经济的选择

IF 6.1 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Pub Date : 2025-07-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101030

Amparo Merino , Katerina Nicolopoulou , Ashraf Salama

This special issue explores the role of economic alterity in sustainability transitions. It draws attention to the ways in which ‘alternative’ and ‘mainstream’ economic practices are defined, enacted, and contested. Moving beyond binary framings, the editorial presents contributions that examine alternative economic initiatives through the lens of situated, relational, and hybrid dynamics. The articles shed light on the tensions between opposition and co-optation, and between individual and systemic change. In doing so, they emphasise the significance of subaltern knowledge, community identity, and plural imaginaries. By foregrounding these dimensions, this special issue advocates for a more political and situated approach to alternative economic spaces in sustainability transitions research. It encourages greater attention to uneven geographies, ontological diversity, and the complex relationships between alternatives and the mainstream. This special issue contributes to broader efforts to rethink how economies are made, unmade and remade, whether within, against or beyond capitalist modernity.

本期特刊探讨了经济替代性在可持续性转型中的作用。它引起了人们对“另类”和“主流”经济实践的定义、制定和争论的方式的关注。这篇社论超越了二元框架，通过定位、关系和混合动态的视角来审视替代性经济举措。这些文章揭示了反对与合作之间的紧张关系，以及个人与系统变革之间的紧张关系。在这样做的过程中，他们强调了下层知识、社区身份和多元想象的重要性。通过突出这些维度，本期特刊主张在可持续性转型研究中采用更具政治性和情境性的方法来研究替代经济空间。它鼓励人们更多地关注不均衡的地理、本体论的多样性以及另类与主流之间的复杂关系。本期特刊有助于更广泛地反思经济是如何形成、破坏和重塑的，无论是在资本主义现代性之内、反对还是超越资本主义现代性。

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Pathways towards successful urban community waste management: Insight from 26 experiments in China 成功的城市社区垃圾管理之路：来自中国26个实验的启示

IF 5.7 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Pub Date : 2025-07-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101032

Shengnan Wang , Bernhard Truffer , Xuemei Bai

Understanding factors influencing the outcomes of innovative community waste management experiments is crucial for improving urban waste management. Yet, there is limited evidence on what are the critical factors and how different combination, and interaction of these factors influence outcomes. This study analyses 26 community waste management experiments in Shenzhen, China, using a mixed-method approach. Through analyzing data obtained from interviews, surveys, and focus groups, we identify 19 key factors determining the success of these experiments. Through fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA), we identified three successful causal pathways: (1) committed participants supported by dedicated communities; (2) committed participants with local government backing; and (3) strong grassroots leadership supported by responsible local government. This indicates that an integration of social, organizational, and behavioral dimensions is crucial to tackle complex waste management challenges. The results also imply that policymakers and practitioners may chose alternative approaches to success, depending on their local situation.

了解影响创新社区废物管理实验结果的因素对于改善城市废物管理至关重要。然而，关于什么是关键因素以及这些因素的不同组合和相互作用如何影响结果的证据有限。本研究采用混合方法分析了中国深圳26个社区垃圾管理实验。通过分析从访谈、调查和焦点小组中获得的数据，我们确定了决定这些实验成功的19个关键因素。通过模糊集定性比较分析（fsQCA），我们确定了三个成功的因果路径：(1)由专门社区支持的忠诚参与者；(2)有当地政府支持的坚定参与者；(3)由负责任的地方政府支持的强有力的基层领导。这表明，社会、组织和行为层面的整合对于解决复杂的废物管理挑战至关重要。研究结果还表明，决策者和实践者可能会根据当地的情况选择不同的成功途径。

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Academic Institutions as Innovation Intermediaries; Co-creating knowledge and building the Gujarat agroecology learning alliance (GALA) 学术机构作为创新中介共同创造知识并建立古吉拉特邦农业生态学习联盟（GALA）

IF 5.7 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Pub Date : 2025-07-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101033

Shambu Prasad C , Deborah Dutta , Arnab Chakraborty

The role of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) as innovation intermediaries remains underexplored in sustainability transitions (ST) research, particularly in agri-food systems in the Global South. This paper examines how a HEI in India facilitated the building of a Learning Alliance in agroecology in Gujarat. The HEI acted as a boundary-spanning knowledge broker—mapping contested visions of sustainability, convening dissimilar actors, and enabling shared learning and co-production of agroecological knowledge. The paper highlights how such intermediation contributes to collective learning alliances and pluralising pathways to transition. It argues for expanding the repertoire of transition intermediaries to include engaged academic institutions, especially where formal systems marginalize grassroots actors. By fostering inclusive governance and mapping situated knowledge, HEIs and civil society can together create platforms for collective experimentation. The case demonstrates the potential for networked governance to leverage the latent capacities of communities for scaling sustainability transitions.

高等教育机构（HEIs）作为创新中介的作用在可持续转型（ST）研究中仍未得到充分探索，特别是在全球南方的农业粮食系统中。本文考察了印度高等教育机构如何促进古吉拉特邦农业生态学学习联盟的建立。HEI作为一个跨界的知识中间人，绘制出有争议的可持续性愿景，召集不同的行动者，实现农业生态知识的共享学习和共同生产。本文强调了这种中介如何有助于集体学习联盟和多元化转型途径。它主张扩大过渡中介机构的范围，使之包括参与其中的学术机构，特别是在正规制度将基层行动者边缘化的地方。通过促进包容性治理和测绘现有知识，高等教育机构和民间社会可以共同创造集体实验的平台。该案例展示了网络治理利用社区潜在能力扩大可持续性转型的潜力。

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