Climate policy innovation: a sociotechnical transitions perspective

Upham, Paul; Kivimaa, Paula; Mickwitz, Per; Åstrand, Kerstin

doi:10.1080/09644016.2014.923632

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“…Third, developed countries generally have fewer problems with knowledge/scoping issues. Overall, these points are indicative of the differences in the capacity of public sectors, with agencies in developing countries generally being less adequately resourced [35,63,67,74,97]. In terms of scale, international initiatives were more prone to discursive issues, largely due to the complexity of international negotiations, but less vulnerable to specific environmental factors due to the general nature of their scope [100,101,105,106].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Case studies in Finland, Italy, the West Balkans and Australia indicated that failure may result where policies are not well developed, are not implemented fully, are not politically popular, or go against a prevailing political agenda [41,47,48,67,71,74,79,[92][93][94]. Dominant interests, such as extractive industries, may influence what is politically feasible, resulting in a failure to deliver sustainability [41,42,44,46,49,58,60,73,81,93,[95][96][97]. An unstable political climate or corruption can further limit success [37,49,53,56,59,67,74,77,96,98].…”

Section: Interrelated Structural Causesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Environmental Sustainability: A Case of Policy Implementation Failure?

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For a generation, governments around the world have been committed to sustainable development as a policy goal. This has been supported by an array of new policies ranging from international agreements, to national strategies, environmental laws at many levels of government, regional programs, and local plans. Despite these efforts, decades of scientific monitoring indicate that the world is no closer to environmental sustainability and in many respects the situation is getting worse. This paper argues that a significant contributing factor to this situation is policy implementation failure. A systematic review of the literature reveals that the failure to achieve the intended outcomes of environmental policies is due to economic, political and communication factors. Conflict between the objectives of environmental policies and those focused on economic development, a lack of incentives to implement environmental policies, and a failure to communicate objectives to key stakeholders are all key factors that contribute to the inability to attain environmental sustainability.

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Section: Comparison Of Policy Failure In Different Contextsmentioning

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Environmental Sustainability: A Case of Policy Implementation Failure?

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“…A distinction can be made between genuinely new (i.e., the first manifestation anywhere), and new in a particular bounded territory but possibly existing in a similar format or manner elsewhere. Borrowing from Upham and colleagues [55], we can call the former an original innovation and the latter a diffusion-based innovation. "New" is also relative to particular time scales.…”

Section: Innovations Definedmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Bumpy Road toward Low-Energy Urban Mobility: Case Studies from Two UK Cities

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2015

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Cities are increasingly seen as the places where innovations that can trigger a sociotechnical transition toward urban mobility are emerging and maturing. Processes such as peak car, rail renaissance and cycling boom manifest themselves particularly in cities, and success stories of cities experimenting with specific types of low-energy mobility abound in the academic literature. Nonetheless, innovation is known to be a precarious process requiring favorable circumstances. Using document analysis and in-depth interviews, this study examines the nature of low-energy innovation in the everyday mobility of people in two UK cities with favorable conditions for a transition away from fossil fuels-Brighton and Oxford. It shows that clear differences exist between the two cities in the sorts of innovation that emerge and diffuse as a result of path dependencies, local politics, and financial support from supra-local governments and agencies. While low-energy mobility currently has substantial momentum in both cities, the majority of low-carbon innovations in urban mobility are incremental rather than radical in nature, and their future is often imbued with uncertainty. The autonomy of small-and medium-sized cities as agents in bringing about transformational change toward low-energy urban mobility should not be overestimated.

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“…Policy innovation can be depicted as a rather broad concept referring to novelty in both policy processes and their outputs (Jordan and Huitema, 2014a;Upham et al, 2014). This means that (1) policy innovation as a process change may, for example, link to increased flexibility for policy, encouraging substance related experimentation, or (2) policy experiments can lead to or refine policy innovations as an output.…”

Section: Policy Experiments For Climate Policy Innovation or Vice Versamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This means that (1) policy innovation as a process change may, for example, link to increased flexibility for policy, encouraging substance related experimentation, or (2) policy experiments can lead to or refine policy innovations as an output. These outputs can be new policy goals, new policy instruments, or new types of leverage mechanisms or implementing organisations (Jordan and Huitema, 2014a;Upham et al, 2014). For example, a series of experiments prepared the ground for adopting the European emission trading scheme (Hildén 2014).…”

Section: Policy Experiments For Climate Policy Innovation or Vice Versamentioning

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Experiments in Climate Governance. Lessons from a Systematic Review of Case Studies in Transition Research

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SWPS 2015-36 (December) DisclaimerThe works available here are the responsibility of the individual author(s) and do not necessarily represent the views of other SPRU researchers. As matters of policy and practice, SPRU does not endorse individual research contributions. Guidelines for authorsPapers shall be submitted in pdf or Word format. They should contain a title, an abstract, and keywords. Papers should be submitted to one of the Editors, who will process them and send them to the appropriate Associate Editor. Two members of SPRU will be asked to provide a short written review within three weeks. The revised versions of the paper, together with a reply to the reviewers, should be sent to the Associate Editor, who will propose to the Editors its publication on the series. When submitting the authors should indicate if the paper has already undergone peer-reviewing, in which case the Associate Editors may decide to skip internal review process. The SPRU Working Paper Series aims to accelerate the public availability of the research undertaken by SPRU-associated people of all categories, and exceptionally, other research that is of considerable interest within SPRU. It presents research results that in whole or part are suitable for submission to a refereed journal, to a sponsor, to a major conference or to the editor of a book. Our intention is to provide access to early copies of SPRU research. AbstractExperimentation has been proposed as one of the ways in which public policy can drive sustainability transitions, notably by creating or delimiting space for experimenting with innovative solutions to sustainability challenges. In this paper we report on a systematic review of articles published between 2009 and 2015 that have addressed experiments aiming either at understanding decarbonisation transitions or enhancing climate resilience. Using the case survey method, we find few empirical descriptions of real-world experiments in climate and energy contexts in the scholarly literature, being observed in only 25 articles containing 29 experiments. We discuss the objectives, outputs and outcomes of these experiments noting that explicit experimenting with climate policies could be identified only in 12 cases. Based on the results we suggest a definition of climate policy experiments and a typology of experiments for sustainability transitions that can be used to better understand the role of and learn more effectively from experiments in sustainability transitions.

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Climate policy innovation: a sociotechnical transitions perspective

Cited by 41 publications

References 41 publications

Environmental Sustainability: A Case of Policy Implementation Failure?

Environmental Sustainability: A Case of Policy Implementation Failure?

The Bumpy Road toward Low-Energy Urban Mobility: Case Studies from Two UK Cities

Experiments in Climate Governance. Lessons from a Systematic Review of Case Studies in Transition Research

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