A Question of Authenticity: Status Quo Bias and the International Energy Agency's World Energy Outlook

Gaede, James; Meadowcroft, James

doi:10.1080/1523908x.2015.1116380

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“…Often overlooked, the materialities of infrastructures and everyday practices that are the object of sustainability transitions also embody contingent power relations: 'the politics of materiality is located at the interface between governing regimes and practices on the one hand, and socio-material arrangements on the other hand' and 'located at dispersed geographies and everyday social practices' (Avelino, Grin, Pel, & Jhagroe, 2016, p. 559). Also the expert outlooks and visions that often provide orientation to transition processes are shaped by entrenched power relations and often display a status quo bias (Gaede & Meadowcroft, 2016). More generally, environmental impact assessments and strategic environmental assessments that were heralded as avenues towards more reflexive governance tend to be used in rather instrumental ways, rendering governance situations more reflective at best and rarely reflexive (Hertin, 2016).…”

Section: Barriers To Reflexive Governancementioning

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Reflexive governance: exploring the concept and assessing its critical potential for sustainable development. Introduction to the special issue

Feindt

Weiland

2018

Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning

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Elaborated in publications on transition management, sustainability governance and deliberative environmental governance, 'reflexive governance' addresses concerns about social-ecological vulnerabilities, flawed conceptualisations of human-nature relations fragmented governance regimes and conditions for a sustainability transition. Key barriers to reflexive government include unavoidable politics; the influence of broader discursive systems that shape actors' strategic interests; and structural and deliberate limitations to the range of admitted epistemological understandings, normative perspectives and material practices. Against this background, the contributions to the special issue provide novel conceptual linkages between reflexive governance and boundary objects, intercultural dialogue, conflict management heuristics, discourse linguistics, theories of the policy cycle and reflexive law, network and learning theories, and Lasswell's 'developmental constructs'. Based on the contributions, we identify five inherent conceptual tensions of reflexive governance: between the openness of horizontal learning processes and the desired direction towards sustainable development; between reflexive governance as a normative or procedural concept; between expected learning orientations and other, strategic orientations; between governance as a precondition for reflexivity and reflexive learning as a precondition for reorganized governance structures; and between reflexivity as an open-ended, evolutionary process and the need to strategically defend the space for reflexivity against powerful groups with an interest in the status quo.

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Section: Barriers To Reflexive Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

Reflexive governance: exploring the concept and assessing its critical potential for sustainable development. Introduction to the special issue

Feindt

Weiland

2018

Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning

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“…LED lighting), but also to smaller or modular generation technologies (e.g. wind turbines, solar panels), where earlier techno-economic assessments have under-estimated technical progress and diffusion (Gaede and Meadowcroft, 2016;Gilbert and Sovacool, 2016).…”

Section: Transition Speed and Different (Layers Of) Energy Systemsmentioning

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Further reflections on the temporality of energy transitions: A response to critics

Sovacool

Geels

2016

Energy Research & Social Science

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Abstract:In tandem with the call for more careful, thoughtful, reflexive thinking on the topic of energy transitions, in this paper we attempt to unpack some of the themes advanced in this Debate. We begin by investigating the multi-dimensionality of energy transitions as well as transition speeds for different parts of energy systems at different scales. We then call on analysts to consider transition speeds and scalar levels. We also argue for focusing on accelerated diffusion driven by rapid changes in cost, improvements in technology, or other factors.

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“…ULLs could be handled and labelled by local institutions as experimental policies and become legitimacy practices for the most influential public-private coalitions [26]. The re-proposition of conventional public-private partnerships risks circumventing the transformative intent of ULLs and thus strengthening the ruling urban governance structures [27,28]. According to some recent studies, limits and risks are also apparent in BSH and LLSC [29,30].…”

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Transformative Urban Living Labs: Towards a Circular Economy in Amsterdam and Turin

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The circular economy is becoming a field of experimentation to trigger site-specific laboratories oriented towards connecting material flows and citizens’ practices. Despite their wide use, a critical perspective of the transformative paths of these Urban Living Labs (ULLs) is still missing. This paper compares the paths followed by two such experiments, one in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) and the other in Turin (Italy). To this end, we build an analytical framework that targets three dimensions: unconventionality, autonomy, and systemic impact on policies. We conclude that ULLs can take very different transformation paths over time due to a wide range of enablers and barriers. In Amsterdam there has been an assimilation in the neighbourhood as well as a transformative effect on an urban scale; while the case of Turin has turned out to be potentially transformative but also at risk of marginalization.

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A Question of Authenticity: Status Quo Bias and the International Energy Agency's World Energy Outlook

Cited by 33 publications

References 28 publications

Reflexive governance: exploring the concept and assessing its critical potential for sustainable development. Introduction to the special issue

Reflexive governance: exploring the concept and assessing its critical potential for sustainable development. Introduction to the special issue

Further reflections on the temporality of energy transitions: A response to critics

Transformative Urban Living Labs: Towards a Circular Economy in Amsterdam and Turin

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