Materiality and sustainability transitions: integrating climate change in transport infrastructure in Ontario, Canada
Materiality and sustainability transitions: integrating climate change in transport infrastructure in Ontario, Canada
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实质性和可持续性转型：将气候变化纳入加拿大安大略省的交通基础设施
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2016
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K. Birch
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除非现在采取措施，否则基础设施可能会将社会锁定在化石燃料上。这是因为基础设施可以持续很长时间，这意味着现在建造或重建的任何基础设施都将持续到21世纪——在某些情况下，直到本世纪末。因此，现在有必要将气候变化纳入基础设施，否则社会将围绕不可持续的社会技术系统（如内燃机、道路和郊区化）设计基础设施。这种变化在文献中被概念化为可持续性过渡。然而，这种转变的任何尝试都必须解决基础设施系统的“物质性”（物理形式、环境背景等）。在本文中，我提出了“社会物质系统”的概念，并将其应用于加拿大安大略省的交通基础设施。
Abstract Infrastructure threatens to lock-in societies to fossil fuels unless something is done now. This is because infrastructure lasts for such a long time, meaning that any infrastructure built or rebuilt now will last well into the twenty-first century – until the end of the century, in some cases. Consequently, there is a need to integrate climate change into infrastructure now or societies will be left with infrastructure designed around unsustainable socio-technical systems (such as combustion engines, roads, and suburbanization). Such change is conceptualized in the literature as a sustainability transition. However, any attempts at such transitions have to address the ‘materialities’ of infrastructure systems (physical form, environmental context, and so on). In this paper, I develop the concept of ‘socio-material systems’ and apply it to transport infrastructure in Ontario, Canada.