System Innovation and the Transition to Sustainability: Theory, Evidence and Policy
System Innovation and the Transition to Sustainability: Theory, Evidence and Policy
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2005
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B. Elzen;F. Geels;Ken Green
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作者：
B. Elzen;F. Geels;Ken Green
现代社会面临着几个结构性问题，如交通拥堵和温室气体排放，由于广泛使用化石燃料。为了解决这些重要的社会问题并实现广义上的可持续性，需要进行重大变革，但鉴于所涉进程的复杂性，这构成了巨大的挑战。这种转变被称为“过渡？还是制度创新？并涉及各种要素的变化，包括技术、监管、用户做法和市场、文化意义和基础设施。这本书考虑了两个主要问题：制度创新或转型是如何发生的，以及它们如何受到不同行为者，特别是政府的影响。作者确定的理论，可用于概念化的系统创新的动力学，并讨论这些理论的弱点。它们还研究了可以从历史转型实例中吸取的经验教训，并强调了可用于激励未来系统创新以实现可持续性的工具和政策工具。专家贡献者使用来自各种不同学科的见解来解决这些问题，包括创新研究，进化经济学，技术社会学，环境分析和治理研究。本书最后对研究结果进行了广泛的总结，并对未来的研究提出了切实可行的建议。这一重要的新卷提供了一个跨学科的评估如何以及为什么系统创新发生。它将吸引对向可持续性过渡感兴趣的学者和研究人员参与，并为他们提供信息，还将与关注环境问题、结构变革和根本性创新的政策制定者高度相关。
Modern societies face several structural problems such as transport congestion and greenhouse gas emissions due to the widespread use of fossil fuels. To address these important societal problems and achieve sustainability in the broad sense, major transformations are required, but this poses an enormous challenge given the complexity of the processes involved. Such transformations are called `transitions? or `system innovations? and involve changes in a variety of elements, including technology, regulation, user practices and markets, cultural meaning and infrastructure. This book considers two main questions: how do system innovations or transitions come about and how can they be influenced by different actors, in particular by governments. The authors identify the theories which can be used to conceptualize the dynamics of system innovations and discuss the weaknesses in these theories. They also look at the lessons which can be learned from historical examples of transitions, and highlight the instruments and policy tools which can be used to stimulate future system innovations towards sustainability. The expert contributors address these questions using insights from a variety of different disciplines including innovation studies, evolutionary economics, the sociology of technology, environmental analysis and governance studies. The book concludes with an extensive summary of the results and practical suggestions for future research. 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.