Socio-technical change linking expectations and representations: Innovating thermal treatment of municipal solid waste
Socio-technical change linking expectations and representations: Innovating thermal treatment of municipal solid waste
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连接期望和表现的社会技术变革:城市固体废物热处理的创新
DOI:
10.1093/scipol/scw054
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发表时间:
2016
影响因子:
2.7
通讯作者:
Levidow L
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作者:
Levidow L
This paper combines two theoretical perspectives: future technological expectations mobilising resources; and social representations assimilating new ideas through anchoring onto familiar frames of reference. The combination is applied to the controversial case of thermal-treatment options for municipal solid waste (MSW), especially via gasification technology. Stakeholders’ social representations set criteria for technological expectations and their demonstration requirements, whose fulfilment in turn has helped gasification to gain more favourable representations. Through a differential ‘anchoring’, gasification is represented as matching incineration’s positive features while avoiding its negative ones. Despite their limitations, current two-stage combustion gasifiers are promoted as a crucial transition towards a truly ‘advanced’ form producing a clean syngas; R&D investment reinforces expectations for advancing the technology. Such linkages between technological expectations and social representations may have broader relevance to socio-technical change, especially where public controversy arises over the wider systemic role of an innovation trajectory.
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发表时间:
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Science, Technology, & Human Values
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