Translation mechanisms in socio-technical niches: a case study of Dutch river management

Raven, Rob; Verbong, Gpj Geert; Schilpzand, WF Wouter; Witkamp, MJ Marten

doi:10.1080/09537325.2011.621305

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“…This includes global niche advocates negotiating expectations and making deals with potential partners to mobilise prior favourable sites (i.e. passive spaces) for local projects (Raven et al, 2008;Raven et al, forthcoming). Niche advocates might also raise promising expectations and lobby and bargain for the creation of active spaces for generating resource flows from policy-makers, funders, investors and businesses directly into the niche.…”

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What is protective space? Reconsidering niches in transitions to sustainability

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Section: Agency In Shielding Nurturing and Empowermentmentioning

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What is protective space? Reconsidering niches in transitions to sustainability

2012

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“…While the framing of actions, projects, and initiatives as experiments has become 64 popular around the world and they are being positioned as drivers of wider transition their 65 impacts are poorly understood (Caniglia et al, this issue). Therefore, scholars are calling for 66 greater cross-case learning from different sustainability transition experiments (Forrest and 67 Wiek, 2015;McCormick et al, 2013;Raven et al, 2011). Undertaking evaluative research 68 supports conclusions regarding the success of particular interventions, aids generalizing 69 insights, and enables the improved design and operation of experiments, helping them to 70 become more effective and efficient .…”

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Learning through evaluation – A tentative evaluative scheme for sustainability transition experiments

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Wiek

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Journal of Cleaner Production

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Transitions towards sustainability are urgently needed to address the interconnected challenges of economic development, ecological integrity, and social justice, from local to global scales. Around the world, collaborative science-society initiatives are forming to conduct experiments in support of sustainability transitions. Such experiments, if carefully designed, provide significant learning opportunities for making progress on transition efforts. Yet, there is no broadly applicable evaluative scheme available to capture this critical information across a large number of cases, and to guide the design of transition experiments. To address this gap, the article develops such a scheme, in a tentative form, drawing on evaluative research and sustainability transitions scholarship, alongside insights from empirical cases. We critically discuss the scheme's key features of being generic, comprehensive, operational, and formative. Furthermore, we invite scholars and practitioners to apply, reflect and further develop the proposed tentative scheme -making evaluation and experiments objects of learning.

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“…This can have implications for the way generic knowledge is produced and circulated and shared across the community. Moreover, the way the outcomes of these learning processes are translated into new local projects may also be influenced by local contextual conditions (Raven et al, 2011). Thus, even if the "niche space" transcends territorial boundaries, territorial level effects remain important.…”

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“…It requires dedicated aggregation activities that bring together lessons from multiple projects, codifying them and articulating field-level agendas. These agendas need to be subsequently translated to local projects, in a process that also requires dedicated efforts (Raven et al, 2011).…”

Section: Niche Construction and Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%