On a wing and hot air: Eco-modernisation, epistemic lock-in, and the barriers to greening aviation and ruminant farming
On a wing and hot air: Eco-modernisation, epistemic lock-in, and the barriers to greening aviation and ruminant farming
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机翼和热空气：生态现代化、认知锁定以及绿色航空和反刍动物养殖的障碍
DOI：
10.1016/j.erss.2017.11.032
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发表时间：
2018
影响因子：
6.7
通讯作者：
Bruce A
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作者：
Bruce A
航空业和畜牧业是温室气体排放的主要来源，一直受到广泛研究，以开发影响更小、能源和资源效率更高的技术。然而，很少有人注意到在这些工业部门采用这些影响较小的技术所面临的挑战。在本文中，我们试图了解技术创新和社会行为环境之间的相互作用，在采用更环保的可持续发展的做法。聚焦于英国（虽然认识到航空和农业的全球背景下），并结合文献分析和访谈数据，我们进行这些相互作用的详细检查。我们研究为什么主张生态现代化理论，认为经济效率的驱动器也将导致提高能源和资源效率出现在我们的情况下没有根据。我们确定锁定在这两个部门，发现绿色创新的障碍，特别是在这两个部门的知识实践。这种“认知锁定”，而不是简单的惰性和对不熟悉的抵制，似乎是至关重要的，必须克服，以使采用影响较小的技术。
The aviation and livestock agriculture sectors are major producers of greenhouse gas emissions, and have been the subject of extensive examination to develop lower impact, more energy and resource efficient technologies. Yet little attention has been paid to the challenges faced in the adoption of these lower impact technologies in these industry sectors. In this paper we seek to understand the interactions between technological innovation and socio-behavioural contexts in the adoption of more environmentally sustainable practices. Focusing on the UK (although recognising the global context of aviation and agriculture) and using a combination of literature analysis and interview data we undertake a detailed examination of these interactions. We examine why the claims of eco-modernisation theory that argue that the drive for economic efficiency will lead also to improved energy and resource efficiency appear unfounded in our cases. We identify lock-in in both sectors, finding that the barriers to greener innovation hinge particularly on the knowledge practices that pertain in the two sectors. This ‘epistemic lock-in’, rather than simple inertia and resistance to unfamiliarity, appears crucial, and must be overcome to enable adoption of lower impact technologies.