Eliciting policymakers’ preferences for technologies to decarbonise transport: A discrete choice experiment

Why does France not meet its pesticide reduction targets? Farmers' socio-economic trade-offs when adopting agro-ecological practices

“…Substantive system changes are required in the transition from one socio-technical system to another (Rip and Kemp, 1998;Geels, 2005). Socio-technical changes do not solely involve technological innovation or substitution, but also require complex and interconnected social changes in the overall configuration of culture, habits, work, markets, consumer practices, scientific knowledge and agrifood systems (Geels, 2011;Elzen et al, 2004;van den Bergh and Bruinsma, 2008;Safarzyńska et al, 2012;Bjørnåvold et al, 2020). What matters is not merely the technological innovation itself (and in this case, agro-ecological practices allowing a greater uptake of alternatives to pesticides), but also the social and economic systems in which the existing technology is embedded (Upham et al, 2019).…”

Market power and sustainability: a new research agenda

“…Depending on the product, this may or may not be desirable from a sustainability perspective. A lock-in may cause path dependencies, prohibiting new and potentially better technologies from being developed and marketed [89,93,94].…”

Modelling welfare estimates in discrete choice experiments for seaweed-based renewable energy

“…Recent examples include Alberini et al [ 21 ], who seek to estimate the benefits of climate change mitigation, as measured by the public’s willingness to pay (WTP) for such policies, Waldman et al [ 22 ], who evaluate farmers’ preferences for perennial attributes of pigeon pea intercropped with maize in central and southern Malawi, Wakamatsu et al [ 23 ], who value whale conservation using data collected from anti-whaling populations in Australia and Japan, and Mariel and Meyerhoff [ 24 ] who compare the outcomes of RPL models with correlated and uncorrelated parameters analyzing farmers’ willingness to accept compensation for implementing agri-environmental measures in Germany. Finally, Bjørnåvold et al [ 25 ] analyze whether European policymakers are more likely to fund dominant incumbent technologies to decarbonize transport rather than novel technologies.…”