Agency in regime destabilization through the selection environment: The Finnish food system’s sustainability transition
Agency in regime destabilization through the selection environment: The Finnish food system’s sustainability transition
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通过选择环境破坏政权稳定的机构：芬兰粮食系统的可持续转型
DOI：
10.1016/j.respol.2018.05.006
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发表时间：
2018
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影响因子：
7.2
通讯作者：
L. Linnanen
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作者：
A. Kuokkanen;A. Nurmi;M. Mikkilä;M. Kuisma;H. Kahiluoto;L. Linnanen
环境威胁日益紧迫，加上可持续性转型步伐缓慢，使人们的注意力转向更好地了解政权不稳定。过分注重利基创新可能是现任政权的转移和抵制战略，并可能强化“一切照旧”的心态，而不是促进全系统的变革。制度变迁的历史案例通常被用来理解政权不稳定的动力学。然而，当重点放在正在进行的转型时，这些见解有局限性。此外，有人认为，应更多地关注机构和行动者。本文通过一个内部结构化的选择环境来理解政权不稳定，这意味着代理不仅在生态位水平的变化中被假设，而且在选择过程中也被假设：（1）选择环境由积极的和战略性的行动者和行动者网络塑造：（2）选择环境由不同的话语框架塑造;（3）选择环境是由体制之外甚至体制之外的各种行动者塑造的。这一论点是实证检验的情况下，芬兰的食品系统，通过构建流行的故事情节的可持续性过渡。四个对比，但部分重叠的故事情节和他们相关的演员网络确定。实证案例支持这样的观点，即各级行动者的目标是通过他们对问题和战略反应的框架来影响选择环境的制定。因此，在可持续发展转型过程中，必须关注不同话语框架的内容和多样性。
The growing urgency of environmental threats combined with the slow pace of sustainability transitions has turned attention towards a better understanding of regime destabilization. Focusing excessively on niche innovations could be incumbent regimes’ diversion and resistance strategy and could reinforce the ‘business as usual’ mindset instead of contributing to system-wide changes. Historical cases of system transition have most often been used to understand the dynamics of regime destabilization. However, these insights have limitations when the focus is on ongoing transitions. Moreover, it is argued that more attention should be paid to agency and actors. Herein, regime destabilization is understood through an internally structured selection environment, implying that agency is assumed not only in variation at the niche level but also in the selection processes: (1) the selection environment is shaped by active and strategic actors and actor networks; (2) the selection environment is shaped by diverse discursive framings; and (3) the selection environment is shaped by various actors beyond the regime and even beyond the system in question. The argument is empirically tested in the case of the Finnish food system by constructing prevailing storylines in the sustainability transition. Four contrasting but partially overlapping storylines and their associated actor networks are identified. The empirical case supports the view that actors across all levels aim to influence the selection environment’s formulation with their framing of the problem and the strategic response. Thus, more attention must be paid to the content and diversity of different discursive framings in sustainability transitions.
DOI：
10.1177/0973408215600602b
发表时间：
2015-09
期刊：
Journal of Education for Sustainable Development
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