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Can the digital economy effectively contribute to the clean energy transition? A provincial panel data analysis from China 数字经济能否有效促进清洁能源转型？来自中国的省级面板数据分析

IF 5.7 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Pub Date : 2025-05-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101003

Yuanyuan Hao , Yifei Jiang , Shuang Lv

With the rapid growth of the digital economy and the spread of digital technologies, there is a growing interest in the digital transformation of clean energy. Accordingly, this study discusses the impact of digital economy on clean energy transformation from multi-dimensional, multi-level and multi-regional perspective through spatial econometric model based on the panel data of 30 provinces in China from 2000 to 2021. It is empirically demonstrated that the positive effects of digital economy on local clean energy transformation are much greater than those of neighboring areas, which further proves that ecological environment, technological innovation, FDI, financial development, city size and economic growth are also the main action paths for the sustainable development of clean energy transformation. Secondly, when government intervention and market-driven conditions are taken into account, both limit the positive impact of the digital economy on clean energy transformation, but the impact of the digital economy differs across regions. Finally, the digital economy has the largest impact in the western region, the smallest in the eastern region and the second largest in the central region, taking into account the existence of spatial regional heterogeneity. Our research can provide theoretical support for China and other emerging developing countries to promote the deep integration of the digital economy and clean energy, as these facts show that the sustainable development of the digital economy is an important way to promote the transformation of clean energy.

随着数字经济的快速发展和数字技术的普及，人们对清洁能源的数字化转型越来越感兴趣。基于此，本研究基于2000 - 2021年中国30个省份的面板数据，通过空间计量模型，从多维、多层次、多区域的视角探讨了数字经济对清洁能源转型的影响。实证表明，数字经济对地方清洁能源转型的积极作用远大于周边地区，进一步证明生态环境、技术创新、FDI、金融发展、城市规模和经济增长也是清洁能源转型可持续发展的主要行动路径。其次，在考虑政府干预和市场驱动的情况下，两者都限制了数字经济对清洁能源转型的积极影响，但数字经济的影响在不同地区有所不同。最后，考虑到空间区域异质性的存在，数字经济对西部地区的影响最大，东部地区最小，中部地区次之。我们的研究可以为中国和其他新兴发展中国家推动数字经济与清洁能源的深度融合提供理论支持，因为这些事实表明，数字经济的可持续发展是推动清洁能源转型的重要途径。

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Towards robust middle-range theories - a call to improve knowledge accumulation in transition studies 走向稳健的中程理论——呼吁提高转型研究的知识积累

IF 5.7 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Pub Date : 2025-05-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101001

Taneli Vaskelainen , Christina M. Bidmon , Matthijs B. Punt

In this perspective paper, we advocate strengthening knowledge accumulation within transition research and provide suggestions on how to achieve it. Over the past decade, many transition papers have proposed new frameworks, contributing to a growing theoretical diversity in the field, which has posed challenges for knowledge accumulation. We address this issue by mobilizing ideas from management studies, a field that has become (in)famous for its ‘obsession’ with theory. Building on three theory related goals used in the field of management, we explain how our field can foster knowledge accumulation through the creation of robust middle-range transition theories. We also consider what authors and reviewers can do to promote this aim.

本文主张在转型研究中加强知识积累，并就如何加强知识积累提出建议。在过去的十年中，许多过渡论文提出了新的框架，促进了该领域理论多样性的增长，这对知识积累提出了挑战。我们通过调动管理研究的思想来解决这个问题，管理研究领域因其对理论的“痴迷”而闻名。以管理领域中使用的三个理论相关目标为基础，我们解释了我们的领域如何通过创建稳健的中间过渡理论来促进知识积累。我们还考虑作者和审稿人可以做些什么来促进这一目标。

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Unravelling the relationship between digitalisation and sustainable energy transitions using socio-technical-ecological scripts 利用社会技术生态脚本揭示数字化与可持续能源转型之间的关系

IF 5.7 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Pub Date : 2025-05-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.100994

Ricarda Schmidt-Scheele , Jannika Mattes

Sustainable energy transitions are closely intertwined with digitalisation processes. In this paper, we analyse how the development and implementation of digital technologies are deeply embedded in socio-technical-ecological configurations of sustainable energy transitions and consequently reflect these configurations. We contribute to the emerging body of literature that investigates the complex relationship between digitalisation and sustainability transitions, often framed as "twin transitions". We develop a conceptual framework that combines the interplay of actors, institutions, technologies and ecological boundaries as core analytical dimensions in transition studies with the concept of scripts from Science and Technology Studies. Scripts allow us to investigate how actor constellations, institutional settings as well as technological and ecological requirements are in-scribed into a digital technology and de-scribed – i.e., interpreted and put into action – by a variety of actors. In this way, we analyse how and which configurations of ongoing transitions are manifested in the technological script. This offers an approach to better understand and reflect on whether and how digital technologies may unfold their often anticipated transformational capacity in transition processes. We illustrate the applicability of our framework with insights from a case study on digital technologies to be installed at onshore wind power plants to detect avian species and curtail turbines when protected birds are at risk of collision.

可持续能源转型与数字化进程密切相关。在本文中，我们分析了数字技术的发展和实施如何深深嵌入可持续能源转型的社会-技术-生态配置中，从而反映了这些配置。我们为研究数字化和可持续性转型之间复杂关系的新兴文献做出了贡献，这些关系通常被称为“孪生转型”。我们开发了一个概念性框架，将行动者、制度、技术和生态边界的相互作用作为过渡研究的核心分析维度，与科学和技术研究中的脚本概念相结合。脚本允许我们研究演员星座、制度设置以及技术和生态要求如何被嵌入到数字技术中，并被各种演员描述-即解释和付诸行动。通过这种方式，我们分析了正在进行的转换的配置如何以及哪些配置在技术脚本中表现出来。这为更好地理解和反思数字技术是否以及如何在转型过程中展现其通常预期的变革能力提供了一种方法。我们通过对安装在陆上风力发电厂的数字技术的案例研究来说明我们的框架的适用性，以检测鸟类物种，并在受保护的鸟类有碰撞风险时减少涡轮机。

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How to build (in) the future? Legitimacy of socio-technical visions in a bio-based construction sector 如何建设未来？以生物为基础的建筑部门的社会技术愿景的合法性

IF 5.7 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Pub Date : 2025-04-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.100996

Lennart Fischer , Sebastian Losacker

The use of bio-based materials offers opportunities to mitigate the climate impacts of construction, with buildings potentially acting as carbon sinks. However, it remains unclear what a future bio-based construction sector will look like. One reason for this are diverse socio-technical visions for the use of bio-based construction materials. In this paper, we use discourse analysis across a comprehensive set of expert interviews to pinpoint (competing) socio-technical visions of a bio-based construction sector in China, India, Germany and Italy. Drawing on the sociological literature on legitimacy, we examine the legitimacy of socio-technical visions as a necessary condition for their collective adoption by stakeholders in the sector. It enables us to conceptualize the development and validation of visions, providing a framework for transition studies to track one part of the collective adoption of visions. This, in turn, adds to the understanding of the formation of ideations that potentially influence transition processes.

生物基材料的使用为减轻建筑对气候的影响提供了机会，因为建筑可能充当碳汇。然而，目前还不清楚未来以生物为基础的建筑行业会是什么样子。其中一个原因是使用生物基建筑材料的不同社会技术愿景。在本文中，我们通过一套全面的专家访谈来使用话语分析，以确定中国、印度、德国和意大利生物基建筑行业的（竞争）社会技术愿景。借鉴关于合法性的社会学文献，我们研究了社会技术愿景的合法性，作为该部门利益相关者集体采用的必要条件。它使我们能够概念化远景的开发和验证，为转换研究提供一个框架，以跟踪远景的集体采用的一部分。这反过来又增加了对可能影响过渡过程的观念形成的理解。

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Advertising restrictions and sustainability transitions: does banning advertising of harmful products induce innovation in benign alternatives? 广告限制和可持续性转变：禁止有害产品的广告会导致良性替代品的创新吗？

IF 5.7 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Pub Date : 2025-04-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101000

Will McDowall , Anders Underthun

Environmental activists increasingly seek to ban advertising of polluting products. Advertising bans (of tobacco and alcohol for example) have been widely used in support of public health objectives, but such bans have received little attention from environmental policy or sustainability transition scholars.

Sustainability transition studies have noted that advertising contributes to the durability of socio-technical regimes, which suggests advert bans can be seen as attempts at regime destabilisation. In this paper, we focus attention on the potential for advertising bans to influence product innovation incentives, and thus establish niches for sustainable innovations. We use a case study of the Norwegian beer market, using low/zero-alcohol beer as an analogy for sustainable innovation. We show that restricting advertising of a harmful product can stimulate innovation in a benign alternative. We conclude that carefully designed advertising bans could be a useful part of the policy toolbox for stimulating sustainable innovation.

环保人士越来越多地寻求禁止污染产品的广告。广告禁令（例如烟草和酒精）已被广泛用于支持公共卫生目标，但这种禁令很少受到环境政策或可持续性转型学者的关注。可持续性转型研究指出，广告有助于社会技术制度的持久性，这表明广告禁令可以被视为破坏政权稳定的企图。在本文中，我们将重点关注广告禁令对产品创新激励的潜在影响，从而建立可持续创新的利基。我们以挪威啤酒市场为例，用低酒精/零酒精啤酒作为可持续创新的类比。我们表明，限制有害产品的广告可以刺激良性替代品的创新。我们得出的结论是，精心设计的广告禁令可能是刺激可持续创新的政策工具箱中有用的一部分。

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Mapping the hydrogen transition in the Netherlands: A sociotechnical multi-system event sequence analysis 绘制荷兰氢过渡：社会技术多系统事件序列分析

IF 5.7 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Pub Date : 2025-04-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.100999

Jerico Bakhuis , Jaco Quist , Wouter Spekkink , Thomas Hoppe , Kornelis Blok

Hydrogen is considered a promising energy carrier that can potentially contribute to low-carbon energy systems and achieving climate goals. Its introduction, however, is complex, involving multiple emerging niches and developments across various sociotechnical systems. Despite its significance, the multi-system nature of hydrogen has received limited attention in sustainability transition scholarship. This paper addresses this knowledge gap by examining the emerging hydrogen transition in the Netherlands from a multi-system sociotechnical perspective. To achieve this, we adopted a framework that considers multiple niches and sociotechnical systems in parallel, using Event Sequence Analysis (ESA). The analysis provides a systematic reconstruction of (niche-)processes as networks of events for analysing hydrogen niche formation from 2001 to 2020 across four sociotechnical systems: industry, electricity, transport, and the built environment. The results reveal that, despite positive discourse and ambitious plans, investments and implementation remained limited. We provide possible explanations for this progress through a multi-system lens.

氢被认为是一种有前途的能源载体，可以潜在地为低碳能源系统和实现气候目标做出贡献。然而，它的引入是复杂的，涉及多个新兴的利基和跨各种社会技术系统的发展。尽管具有重要意义，但氢的多系统性质在可持续性转型研究中受到的关注有限。本文通过从多系统社会技术角度研究荷兰新兴的氢过渡来解决这一知识差距。为了实现这一点，我们采用了一个框架，该框架使用事件序列分析（ESA）并行考虑多个利基和社会技术系统。该分析提供了一个系统的（生态位）过程的重建，作为分析2001年至2020年四个社会技术系统（工业、电力、交通和建筑环境）中氢生态位形成的事件网络。结果表明，尽管有积极的话语和雄心勃勃的计划，但投资和实施仍然有限。我们通过多系统视角为这一进展提供可能的解释。

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Socio-technical lock-in as alignment process: tracing the joint development of pesticide dependency and vegetable production in Senegal (1900–2024) 作为协调过程的社会技术锁定：追踪塞内加尔农药依赖和蔬菜生产的共同发展（1900-2024）

IF 5.7 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Pub Date : 2025-04-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.100997

Baptiste Gaillard , Bruno Turnheim , Raphaël Belmin , Allison Marie Loconto

Lock-in mechanisms are common explanations for the persistence of undesirable system configurations in the present. However, studies often analyse lock-ins statically, without tracing and explaining underlying processes. In this article, we explore the development of lock-in over time, by analysing the case study of pesticide lock-in the Senegalese vegetable sector. To this end, we draw on extensive archival document analysis. We trace pesticide lock-in through four periods (from the 1900s to 2024) and explain it as the result of alignment processes across multiple heterogenous dimensions: agricultural policy, input supply, scientific and technical knowledge, on-farm production, and vegetable commercialisation & consumption. These dimensions have aligned in stages, fuelling a dynamic of growing dependence on chemical control. To date, this overall alignment has only been partially challenged, stimulating several adaptations, reinforcing the chemical intensification process, and marginalising attempts to reduce pesticide use. The paper ends with a discussion of conformities and deviations in a case study from the existing literature on lock-in within the agri-food sector in the Global South, before suggesting ways out of the current pesticide lock-in.

锁定机制是目前不受欢迎的系统配置持续存在的常见解释。然而，研究经常静态地分析锁定，而没有跟踪和解释潜在的过程。在本文中，我们通过分析塞内加尔蔬菜部门农药锁定的案例研究，探讨了锁定的发展。为此，我们借鉴了大量的档案文件分析。我们通过四个时期（从1900年到2024年）追踪农药锁定，并将其解释为跨多个异质维度的校准过程的结果：农业政策、投入供应、科学技术知识、农场生产和蔬菜商业化；消费。这些方面已经分阶段对齐，助长了对化学控制的日益依赖。迄今为止，这种整体一致性只受到部分挑战，刺激了一些适应，加强了化学强化过程，并使减少农药使用的尝试边缘化。本文最后讨论了一个案例研究中的一致性和偏差，该案例研究来自全球南方农业食品部门的现有文献锁定，然后提出了摆脱当前农药锁定的方法。

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“We can’t do everything ourselves.” - Why Swedish municipalities deliberately promote intermediation in governing the mobility transition "我们不能事必躬亲"。- 瑞典市政当局为何在管理流动性转型时有意促进中介服务

IF 5.7 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Pub Date : 2025-04-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.100998

Max Halbwachs , Sara Gustafsson , Eugenia Perez Vico

Literature on intermediation in transitions has emphasised the importance of publicly promoting intermediation. To understand what drives authorities to financially promote intermediation, we conducted an exploratory study of 16 Swedish municipalities promoting an intermediary actor in the mobility transition, applying the framework of drivers of collaborative governance. The results highlight drivers common to most municipalities, including among others administrators’ awareness of collaboration challenges, or their inability to conduct intermediary activities on their own. However, the results also reveal diversity and context dependency of the drivers, leading to municipalities voicing diverse and partly conflicting expectations towards the intermediary. These findings underline the importance of understanding the promotion of intermediation through municipalities as a transactional and personal relationship between administrators and intermediaries. They also underline the relevance of “affective work” to mitigating conflicts caused by the diversity of expectations facing intermediaries, and the importance of municipalities in shaping local ecologies of intermediation.

关于转型中的调解的文献强调了公开促进调解的重要性。为了了解是什么驱动当局在财政上促进中介，我们对16个瑞典市政当局进行了探索性研究，应用协作治理驱动因素框架，促进了流动性转型中的中介行为。结果突出了大多数市政当局共同的驱动因素，包括其他管理者对协作挑战的认识，或者他们无法自己开展中介活动。然而，研究结果也揭示了司机的多样性和背景依赖性，导致市政当局对中介机构表达了不同的、部分相互冲突的期望。这些调查结果强调了通过市政当局促进中介作为行政人员和中介机构之间的交易和个人关系的重要性。它们还强调了“情感性工作”对于减轻中介机构所面临的期望多样性所造成的冲突的相关性，以及市政当局在塑造当地中介生态方面的重要性。

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Photovoltaic panels diffusion in Switzerland: understanding adopters profiles using clustering methods 瑞士的光伏板扩散：使用聚类方法了解采用者概况

IF 5.7 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Pub Date : 2025-04-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.100995

Pablo Martinez-Alcaraz , Gloria Serra-Coch , Maria Hecher , Claudia R. Binder

The adoption of photovoltaic panels (PV) by households is essential to meet residential Swiss energy transition targets. While previous studies have mostly focused on the factors influencing PV adoption by comparing adopters with non-adopters, few have acknowledged the heterogeneity of adopters and examined how these factors interrelate and differ among them. This study examines how factors associated with PV adoption differ among groups of adopters, and how these differences relate to socio-demographic, household and building characteristics and the geographic context. In 2022, we surveyed 1300 Swiss PV adopters. To segment the adopters, we used factor analysis and clustering methods factors associated with PV adoption. This multi-dimensional approach revealed recommendations for supporting PV adoption: (i) seize opportunity windows, such as renovations, for professionals to act as change agents, (ii) leverage attitude towards energy-conscious behaviour and perceived control over the technology, and (iii) leverage social influence for vertical diffusion.

家庭采用光伏板（PV）对于实现瑞士住宅能源转型目标至关重要。虽然以前的研究主要是通过比较采用者和非采用者来关注影响光伏采用者的因素，但很少有人承认采用者的异质性，并研究这些因素之间的相互关系和差异。本研究考察了与光伏采用相关的因素在采用者群体之间的差异，以及这些差异与社会人口、家庭和建筑特征以及地理环境的关系。2022年，我们调查了1300名瑞士光伏用户。为了细分采用者，我们使用了因素分析和聚类方法，与光伏采用者相关的因素。这种多维方法揭示了支持光伏采用的建议：（一）抓住机会窗口，如改造，让专业人员充当变革推动者；（二）利用对能源意识行为的态度和对技术的感知控制；（三）利用社会影响促进垂直传播。

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A theoretical and systematic examination of finance in strategic niche management 战略生态位管理中财务的理论和系统考察

IF 5.7 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Pub Date : 2025-04-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.100991

Amanda-Leigh O'Connell , Johan Schot

Financing sustainable technologies for energy transitions is a major policy focus in the Global South, where financing constraints have long hampered economic development. This paper focuses on Strategic Niche Management (SNM) as a framework to guide policymaking for sustainable innovation and transitions. While finance is central to niche processes, its theoretical role in niche development remains underexplored. To address this gap, we develop the concept of the mediation junction and use a mechanisms-based approach to examine how finance interacts with protected spaces as a multi-scalar, multi-level phenomenon. We map three causal pathways through which interactions shape protected spaces, conceptualise a mediating role to articulate structuring effects and propose a method for identifying finance co-evolution and loci of stability as potential sites for radical change. Key strategic insights include small-scale experiments to challenge entrenched financing structures while safeguarding against financial system destabilisation and reprisals from powerful actors.

为能源转型的可持续技术融资是全球南方国家的主要政策重点，在这些国家，融资限制长期阻碍着经济发展。本文将战略生态位管理（SNM）作为指导可持续创新和转型政策制定的框架。虽然金融是生态位过程的核心，但其在生态位发展中的理论作用仍未得到充分探讨。为了解决这一差距，我们提出了中介节点的概念，并使用基于机制的方法来研究金融如何与受保护空间相互作用，这是一个多尺度、多层次的现象。我们绘制了三条因果路径，通过这些路径，相互作用塑造了受保护的空间，概念化了中介作用，以阐明结构效应，并提出了一种方法，用于识别金融共同进化和稳定位点作为激进变化的潜在地点。关键的战略见解包括挑战根深蒂固的融资结构的小规模实验，同时防范金融体系的不稳定和强大行为体的报复。

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