Challenges to local innovation and implementation of low-carbon energy-transition measures: A tale of two Austrian regions

Irshaid, J.; Mochizuki, Junko; Schinko, Thomas

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2021.112432

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“…In the literature, we distinguish between several barriers that hinder the encouragement of innovations, such as the current political system, lack of resources (e.g., financial, time or personal) at different political levels (national, regional or local), cultural issues or lack of information and knowledge on how to use them (e.g., Biesbroek et al, 2013; Irshaid et al, 2021; Moser & Ekstrom, 2010; Thaler et al, 2019). In particular, the current institutional settings often hinder the development and use of innovations because establishing professional communities and legal requirements might discourage or forbid their use (Thaler et al, 2022).…”

Section: Research Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Policy experimentation within flood risk management: Transition pathways in Austria

Thaler

Penning‐Rowsell

2023

Geographical Journal

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Flood risk management (FRM) is facing various challenges, such as climate change and biodiversity losses. Traditional structural FRM measures are now not always feasible as responses to these challenges. One answer might be the use of policy experiments to promote innovation. This paper aims to assess and to explain why innovations in FRM are rarely implemented. We analysed seven innovative strategies across Austria that combine several different approaches. Each is concerned with risk reduction systems designed to save space, time and possible rising costs. The research used 76 qualitative standardised semi‐structured interviews with key FRM experts conducted between 2012 and 2021 in order to examine transition pathways through time. The results show that there exist numerous drivers and barriers to debating, designing and implementing FRM innovations. The capture of transition pathways nevertheless shows the system shift from a more traditional understanding towards a transformative path, which created new understandings of the role of the different actors in FRM as well as new institutional settings. However, these policy experiments were still led by the relevant public administrations as they are the main funders, the principal actors in the planning and implementation phases in the realisation of many of these innovations.

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Policy experimentation within flood risk management: Transition pathways in Austria

Thaler

Penning‐Rowsell

2023

Geographical Journal

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“…In order to inspire enterprises to fulfill their social responsibilities actively and individuals to establish low-carbon economy awareness, it is necessary to cultivate the concept of the low-carbon economy through the following ways. First, the government could propagandize the concept of a low-carbon economy actively through the media, such as television, radio, and WeChat [43]. Second, education on the concept of the low-carbon economy should be strengthened by the government.…”

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The Inhibition and Equilibrium of Policy Effectiveness of the Low-Carbon Economy: Evidence from Liaoning Province of China

Chen

Shi

2023

IJERPH

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Excessive emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases have seriously affected the ecological environment, public health, and the normal operation of the social economy, and the development of the low-carbon economy has become an international consensus. The policy norms are one of the important factors affecting the development of the low-carbon economy; however, the implementation of low-carbon economic policy in many countries has been inhibited. This study chose Liaoning Province of China for the case study, and the policy system, the policy tools, the administrative system, the low-carbon technology, and the low-carbon concept are found to be factors that led to the inhibition of the policy effectiveness of the low-carbon economy in Liaoning Province. We applied the modified Schweller Neoclassical Realist Theory to establish a multi-factor linkage model to demonstrate the overall relationship among various variables. The results show that the equilibrium of policy effectiveness of the low-carbon economy in Liaoning Province depends on different permutations of variables. We also discussed the problems of the policy system, the policy tools, the administrative system, the low-carbon technology, and the low-carbon concept that lead to policy effectiveness inhibition, and used the economic method to set a special mathematical model for maximizing the equilibrium of policy effectiveness of the low-carbon economy in Liaoning Province. In response to the problems of the above factors, strategies to promote the development of the low-carbon economy in Liaoning Province are proposed. This study enriches the research on the policy effectiveness of the low-carbon economy in China and provides some inspiration for the goal of carbon neutrality and other developing countries with high carbon emissions.

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“…The global integrated assessment communities, numbering hundreds of scientific groups across the world, use coupled biophysical and socioeconomic systems models to guide policies across sectors such as energy, agriculture, water, ecosystems, and biodiversity 4 . Integrated science, which began in the 1980s has responded to evolving policy demands for a greater integration of the human dimension 5 and, more recently, knowledge co-production 6 . Research is currently active to improve the usability of integrated assessment such as participatory modeling and scenario services7, however such emphasis alone will likely miss greater opportunities for reflexive learning.…”

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Wada

2022

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Challenges to local innovation and implementation of low-carbon energy-transition measures: A tale of two Austrian regions

Cited by 15 publications

References 37 publications

Policy experimentation within flood risk management: Transition pathways in Austria

Policy experimentation within flood risk management: Transition pathways in Austria

The Inhibition and Equilibrium of Policy Effectiveness of the Low-Carbon Economy: Evidence from Liaoning Province of China

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