Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Deep transitions: Theorizing the long-term patterns of sociotechnical change
Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Deep transitions: Theorizing the long-term patterns of sociotechnical change
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环境创新和社会转型深度转型:社会技术变革的长期模式理论化
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2018
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Johan Schota
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Laur Kangera;Johan Schota
The contemporary world is confronted by a double challenge: environmental degradation and social inequality. This challenge is linked to the dynamics of the First Deep Transition (Schot, 2016): the creation and expansion of a wide range of socio-technical systems in a similar di- rection over the past 200–250years. Extending the theoretical framework of Schot and Kanger (2018), this paper proposes that the First Deep Transition has been built up through successive Great Surges of Development (Perez, 2002), leading to the emergence of a macro-level selection environment called industrial modernity. This has resulted in the formation of a portfolio of directionality, characterized by dominant and durable directions and occasional discontinuous shifts in addition to a continuous variety of alternatives sustained in niches or single systems. This historically-informed view on the co-evolution of single socio-technical systems, complexes of systems and industrial modernity has distinctive implications for policy-making targeted at re- solving the current challenges.