Using deliberative foresight to envision a neo-carbon energy innovation ecosystem – a case study of Kenya

Karjalainen, Joni; Heinonen, Sirkka

doi:10.1080/20421338.2017.1366133

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“…This size was sufficient for biogas plant installation for both adoption categories. According to Karjalainen and Heinonen [17], a quarter an acre (0.101 ha) is adequate even for a large biogas plant installation whatever the size and the mode of plant.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

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Determinants of Biogas Technology Adoption in Rural Households of Aleta Wondo District, Sidama Zone, Southern Ethiopia

Geddafa¹,

Melka

Sime

2021

Journal of Energy

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Biogas is environmentally sound and economically viable, clean, and renewable energy source. Despite its numerous benefits and dissemination efforts, the adoption of biogas technology has been low. The objective of this study was to assess factors determining adoption of biogas technology as an alternative energy source at household level in Aleta Wondo district, southern Ethiopia. A multistage sampling technique was employed to select sample households. A total of 148 sample households, 51 biogas technology adopters, and 97 nonadopter households were surveyed. The collected data were analyzed by inferential statistics and econometric model using STATA version 13.1. Results from the probit model showed that education level of household head, annual income level, livestock holding size, access to technical support, and level of awareness have significant positive influence on households’ decision to adopt biogas technology. Other factors include poor performance of biogas plants associated to technical problems, and high installation costs unaffordable to the majority of rural population had a negative implication in adoption process. These are also the factors contributing to low adoption. Therefore, raising the population awareness on the benefits of biogas and assigning the biogas technicians who can give immediate maintenance services at “Kebele” level could extend the biogas technology.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Determinants of Biogas Technology Adoption in Rural Households of Aleta Wondo District, Sidama Zone, Southern Ethiopia

Geddafa¹,

Melka

Sime

2021

Journal of Energy

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“…The literature on deliberative participation advances a critique to the traditional top‐down policy‐making processes, which tend to reply on technocratic expert inputs and information provision in public consultation practices (Karjalainen & Heinonen, 2018; Meadowcroft, 2004; Petts, 2001; Stagl, 2006). Public participation through the use of deliberative practices is being increasingly recognized as a major means of enhancing the quality of decisions, policy legitimacy, and social learning through engaging the public in decision‐making processes (Petts, 2004; van de Kerkhof, 2006).…”

Section: Understanding Citizen Engagement In Nuclear Governance: the mentioning

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Evaluating deliberative participation from a social learning perspective: A case study of the 2012 National Energy Deliberative Polling in post‐Fukushima Japan

Mah

Siu

et al. 2021

Env Pol Gov

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Nuclear power has remained a hugely controversial energy technology since the 1970s and became particularly so after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident. Engaging citizens in making energy decisions have thus become an increasingly important governing approach to post‐Fukushima energy transitions in many countries. Deliberative participatory processes and learning through social interactions have been increasingly regarded as critical elements of effective public engagement. Yet, little is known about who learns what, how they learn, and what impacts learning has on nuclear governance. Even less is known about the contextual factors influencing social learning. Advancing the literature on nuclear governance, deliberative participation, and social learning, this paper proposes a learning‐oriented framework to evaluate the outcomes of deliberative participation in the context of nuclear governance. We apply this framework in a case study of a national deliberative poll (DP) on energy conducted in Japan in 2012. We critically examine the extent to which and how social learning occurs under the influence of pre‐existing government‐industry‐society relations as a key contextual factor. Mainly based on a qualitative analysis of transcribed materials from a two‐day deliberation over the DP involving 285 citizens, this study has three main findings. First, participating citizens of the DP were able to acquire all of the three orders of social learning through deliberative processes in the DP process. Second, the provision of multiple sources of information, access to diverse perspectives, and the availability of plenty of dialogic processes are identified as factors that were found to facilitate advancement toward higher orders of learning. Third, the “nuclear iron triangle”—a pro‐nuclear coalition—appeared to constrain social learning impacts in the wider socio‐political systems of nuclear governance in Japan.

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“…Pansera and Sarkar [63] offer evidence suggesting that innovations generated by the low-income population not only satisfy previously ignored consumer needs but can also foster greater productivity, sustainability, and poverty reduction through more significant income generation. A considerable group of articles, particularly those involving the concept of grassroots innovation, describe the entrepreneurship generated by PPI as closely connected to environmental causes [64][65][66]. Research on inclusive innovation indicates that more accessible technologies can be used to train new entrepreneurs [67], addressing, in part, the problem of lack of entrepreneurial skills [68].…”

Section: Economic Facilitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…By eliminating geographical barriers and giving voice to marginalized groups, innovations such as participatory videos [148] and internet-based applications for participatory mapping [149] provide inexpensive opportunities for citizens to participate in the democratic process. Specifically, regarding the terms inclusive innovation and jugaad, inexpensive solutions in mobile-based telecommunications have been identified [64,150,151]. Of particular note is the case described by Karjalainen and Heinonen [64] of a mobile application developed in response to postelection violence in Kenya in 2008.…”

Section: Political Freedomsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pro-Poor Innovations to Promote Instrumental Freedoms: A Systematic Literature Review

Mariano

Silva

2021

Sustainability

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Through a systematic literature review, this article aims to evaluate the impacts of various concepts of pro-poor innovations (PPI) on the five instrumental freedoms in Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach. For this, 165 articles were analysed to summarize the main influences of the pro-poor innovation on each type of instrumental freedom: political freedoms, economic facilities, transparency guarantees, social opportunities, and protective security. In general, the results indicate a positive influence of the innovation concepts for distinct types of freedom, with emphasis on the expansion of social opportunities and economic facilities.

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Using deliberative foresight to envision a neo-carbon energy innovation ecosystem – a case study of Kenya

Cited by 11 publications

References 78 publications

Determinants of Biogas Technology Adoption in Rural Households of Aleta Wondo District, Sidama Zone, Southern Ethiopia

Determinants of Biogas Technology Adoption in Rural Households of Aleta Wondo District, Sidama Zone, Southern Ethiopia

Evaluating deliberative participation from a social learning perspective: A case study of the 2012 National Energy Deliberative Polling in post‐Fukushima Japan

Pro-Poor Innovations to Promote Instrumental Freedoms: A Systematic Literature Review

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