Contradictory but also Complementary: National and Local Imaginaries in Japan and Fukushima around Transitions to Hydrogen and Renewables
Contradictory but also Complementary: National and Local Imaginaries in Japan and Fukushima around Transitions to Hydrogen and Renewables
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矛盾但又互补：日本和福岛的国家和地方围绕向氢和可再生能源过渡的想象
DOI：
10.1016/j.erss.2018.10.019
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发表时间：
2019
影响因子：
6.7
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J.
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作者：
Trencher;G.;& Van der Heijden;J.
学术界越来越关注社会技术想象在实现理想的能源未来方面所发挥的重要作用，通过激励和推动技术创新战略，动员利益相关者和资源，以及证明必要的政策引入和社会经济系统的转变是合理的。本文通过探讨两个相关案例及其相互作用，为这一新兴的学术研究做出了贡献：日本围绕向氢社会过渡的国家想象，以及福岛县围绕核灾难后向100%由可再生能源和氢驱动的社会过渡的地方想象。正如我们所展示的那样，虽然相互作用和将国家层面的氢想象用于福岛的过程引发了争论、摩擦和矛盾，但我们也发现了积极的结果。也就是说，趋同的过程遇到了利益相关者社区的一致意见，并补充了现有的努力，以实现该地区独特的可再生能源未来。通过探索积极的结果，这项研究超越了现有的学术研究——专注于消极的结果，如紧张和竞争——提出了一种微妙的对混合结果的欣赏，这可能会确保来自不同地理尺度的不同想象的融合。
Scholarship is devoting increasing attention to the important role that socio-technical imaginaries play in materialising desirable energy futures by inspiring and propelling technological innovation strategies, mobilising stakeholders and resources, and justifying necessary policy introductions and transformations of socio-economic systems. This article contributes to this emerging scholarship by exploring two relevant cases and their interactions: Japan’s national imaginary around a transition to a hydrogen society and Fukushima Prefecture’s local imaginary around a post-nuclear disaster transition to a society powered 100% by both renewables and hydrogen. As we demonstrate, while the process of interaction and appropriation of the national-level hydrogen imaginary to the Fukushima context triggered contestations, friction and contradictions, we also identify positive outcomes. That is, the process of convergence encountered concurrence in stakeholder communities and complemented existing efforts to achieve a renewable energy future that is unique to this particular geography. By also exploring positive outcomes, this study moves beyond existent scholarship—which has focused on negative consequences such as tensions and contestations—to propose a nuanced appreciation of the mixed outcomes that might ensure the convergence of diverging imaginaries from differing geographical scales.