Unlocking "lock-in" and path dependency: A review across disciplines and socio-environmental contexts
Unlocking "lock-in" and path dependency: A review across disciplines and socio-environmental contexts
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解锁“锁定”和路径依赖：跨学科和社会环境背景的回顾
DOI：
10.1016/j.worlddev.2022.106116
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发表时间：
2023
影响因子：
6.9
通讯作者：
Goldstein J
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作者：
Goldstein J
碳“锁定”概念于21世纪初提出，已被智库、学术界和试图摆脱化石燃料引起的碳排放和气候变化后果的民间社会广泛采用。这一概念对能源经济政策、能源转型、汽车运输和城市流动性都很重要。它与跨部门的"路径依赖"相似，包括水治理、渔业、农民土地保有权和债务。然而，在将其应用于基础设施以外的非技术环境方面，它的使用也不足。在这篇评论文章中，我们认为，"锁定"的概念是相关的更广泛的多标量的社会环境挑战的发展。我们扩展锁定，考虑颗粒问题，往往滑出宏观层面的技术和制度路径依赖，而不会陷入系统思维的“自然陷阱”。扩大和重新参与锁定的概念，加强了我们的分析能力，以解决一系列结构不平衡的环境和社会锁定。
Introduced in the early 2000s, the concept of carbon “lock-in” has been widely adopted by think tanks, academics, and civil society trying to break away from the consequences of fossil-fuel induced carbon emissions and climate change. The concept has been instrumental to energy economic policy, energy transitions, and automobile transportation and urban mobility. It has parallels with “path dependency” across sectors, including water governance, fisheries, farmer tenure, and debt. Yet its use has also fallen short in applying it to nontechnical settings beyond infrastructure. In this review article, we argue that the “lock-in” concept is relevant to a much broader range of multi-scalar socio-environmental challenges to development. We expand lock-in to consider granular issues that tend to slip out of macro-level technological and institutional path dependencies, without falling into the ‘naturalizing trap’ in systems thinking. Broadening and re-engaging the concept of lock-in strengthens our analytical ability to address a range of structurally uneven environmental and societal lock-ins.