Sustainability experiments in Asia: innovations shaping alternative development pathways?

Berkhout, Frans; Verbong, Gpj Geert; Wieczorek, Anna; Raven, Rob; Lebel, Louis; Bai, Xuemei

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2010.03.010

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“…Experiments can be defined as 'initiatives that embody a highly novel socio-technical configuration likely to lead to substantial sustainability gains' (Berkhout et al, 2010). The path-breaking innovation is conceptualised to develop through the above relations operating across these located sociotechnical experiments (Geels and Raven, 2006).…”

Section: Nurturing Path-breaking Innovations In Protective Spacesmentioning

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What is protective space? Reconsidering niches in transitions to sustainability

2012

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Section: Nurturing Path-breaking Innovations In Protective Spacesmentioning

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What is protective space? Reconsidering niches in transitions to sustainability

2012

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“…According to their findings, niches can be developed by strategically initiating experiments-'planned initiatives that embody a highly novel socio-technical configuration likely to lead to substantial (environmental) sustainability gains' [45] (see also [25] for a recent review of the concept).…”

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Unpacking the Formation of Favourable Environments for Urban Experimentation: The Case of the Bristol Energy Scene

2018

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Urban experimentation with sustainability has been gaining prominence in policy and academic discourses about urban transformations, spurring the creation of urban living laboratories and transition arenas. However, the academic literature has only begun examining why experimentation flourishes in particular cities, and why it conforms to place-specific styles. Meanwhile, the strategic niche management (SNM) tradition has extensively explored how protective spaces for experimentation emerge but has dealt only tangentially with why this happens in particular places. In this paper, we develop an approach for unpacking the formation of favourable environments for experimentation in specific places. We adopt an abductive research design to create a dialogue between distinct theoretical positions and one in-depth case study. Our case examines the formation of the Bristol energy scene, which hosts a variety of experimental initiatives concerning civic energy alternatives. Based on our findings, we refine the understanding of the processes shaping this experimental setting. There is value in characterising the 'genealogy' of experimental spaces and acknowledging their antecedents, path-dependencies and place-specificities. Efforts to foster urban transformation demand nuanced accounts of how places become experimental because they are not static backgrounds for experimentation.

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“…There is an on-going discussion whether niche-innovations within specific socio-technical regimes could appear within specific 'windows of opportunity'. Nicheinnovations could both demonstrate and offer alternatives if they are stabilised and have gathered momentum (Berkhout et al, 2010). It is implied in the discussion that the growth and momentum of a 'niche-accumulation' could in the end lead to undermining the existing socio-technical regime (Berkhout et al, 2010:266).…”

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“…For offshore wind energy the tariff is 15 ct/kWh for the first 12 years, then 3.5 ct/kWh or alternatively 19 ct/kWh for the first 8 years (in late 2014) . Berkhout et al (2010) present the concept of socio-technical regimes which describe "stable and ordered configurations of technologies, actors and rules that represent the basis for social and economic practices" and includes "a complex web of technologies, producer companies, consumers and markets, regulations, infrastructures and cultural values" (Berkhout et al, 2010:263). This is very much linked to the different development pathways that countries can take and that are constituted by a set of interlocking and interacting sociotechnical regimes (Berkhout et al, 2010).…”

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“…Berkhout et al (2010) present the concept of socio-technical regimes which describe "stable and ordered configurations of technologies, actors and rules that represent the basis for social and economic practices" and includes "a complex web of technologies, producer companies, consumers and markets, regulations, infrastructures and cultural values" (Berkhout et al, 2010:263). This is very much linked to the different development pathways that countries can take and that are constituted by a set of interlocking and interacting sociotechnical regimes (Berkhout et al, 2010). From this perspective, energy systems could be described as "socio-technical configurations where technologies, institutional arrangements (for example, regulation, norms), social practices and actor constellations (such as userproducer relations and interactions, intermediary organisations, public authorities, etc.)…”

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The stuttering energy transition in Germany: Wind energy policy and feed-in tariff lock-in

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This article aims to examine whether the formulation of specific low carbon policy such as the feed-in tariff for wind energy in Germany can partly be a barrier to a comprehensive energy transition (Energiewende). Despite their short and medium-term success, these policies could create a long-term lock-in if they are formulated in a way that leads to a stagnation of systems innovation. The research finds that while the share of wind energy has increased rapidly over time, the feed-in-tariff and other low carbon policies and incentives have not been sufficient to achieve a socio-technical regime transition in Germany yet. We suggest that the German feed-in-tariff has incorporated wind energy (a nicheinnovation) and wind energy actors (pathway newcomers) into a slightly modified sociotechnical regime that is rather similar to the earlier 'fossil fuel dominant' socio-technical regime.

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Sustainability experiments in Asia: innovations shaping alternative development pathways?

Cited by 206 publications

References 24 publications

What is protective space? Reconsidering niches in transitions to sustainability

What is protective space? Reconsidering niches in transitions to sustainability

Unpacking the Formation of Favourable Environments for Urban Experimentation: The Case of the Bristol Energy Scene

The stuttering energy transition in Germany: Wind energy policy and feed-in tariff lock-in

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