System Innovation and the Transition to Sustainability
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84376-683-4 (ISBN)
This important new volume offers an interdisciplinary assessment of how and why system innovations occur. It will engage and inform academics and researchers interested in transitions towards sustainability, and will also be highly relevant for policymakers concerned with environmental issues, structural change and radical innovation.
Edited by Boelie Elzen, Senior Researcher, School of Business, Public Administration and Technology, University of Twente, the Netherlands, Frank W. Geels, Eddie Davies Professor of Sustainability Transitions, Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK and the late Ken Green, formerly Professor of Environmental Innovation Management, Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK
Contents: Preface Foreword 1. General Introduction: System Innovation and Transitions to Sustainability Part I: Theoretical Explorations of Transitions 2. Understanding System Innovations: A Critical Literature Review and a Conceptual Synthesis 3. Socio-technological Regimes and Transition Contexts 4. Sustainability, System Innovation and the Laundry Part II: Empirical Examples of Transitions 5. A Transition Towards Sustainability in the Swiss Agri-Food Chain (1970–2000): Using and Improving the Multi-level Perspective 6. The Transition from Coal to Gas: Radical Change of the Dutch Gas System Part III: Transition Policy 7. Managing the Transition to Sustainable Mobility 8. Getting through the ‘Twilight Zone’: Managing Transitions through Process-based, Horizontal and Interactive Governance 9. Bounded Socio-Technical Experiments (BSTEs): Higher Order Learning for Transitions Towards Sustainable Mobility Part IV: Tools for Transition Policy and Empirical Illustrations 10. Managing Experiments for Transition: Examples of Societal Embedding in Energy and Health Care Sectors 11. Socio-technical Scenarios as a Tool for Transition Policy: An Example from the Traffic and Transport Domain 12. Conclusion. Transitions to Sustainability: Lessons Learned and Remaining Challenges Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 26.11.2004 |
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Verlagsort | Cheltenham |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Themenwelt | Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Mikroökonomie |
ISBN-10 | 1-84376-683-3 / 1843766833 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-84376-683-4 / 9781843766834 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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