Exploring the Micro-politics in Transitions from a Practice Perspective: The Case of Greenhouse Innovation in the Netherlands

Hoffman, Jesse; Loeber, Anne

doi:10.1080/1523908x.2015.1113514

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“…Likewise, dialectical perspectives on transitions processes have been furthered (Shove ; Kemp and Rotmans ; Hoffman and Loeber ), understanding the outcomes of such processes more fundamentally as emerging realities that are subject to opposing forces. Building on these advances, a dialectical perspective on the phenomena of capture has been brought forward in Pel ().…”

Section: Transitions Theory: Alternative Economic Practices As Evolutmentioning

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A Transitions Studies Perspective on the Social Economy; Exploring Institutionalization and Capture in Flemish ‘Insertion’ Practices

Pel

Bauler

2017

Ann Public Coop Econ

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Section: Transitions Theory: Alternative Economic Practices As Evolutmentioning

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A Transitions Studies Perspective on the Social Economy; Exploring Institutionalization and Capture in Flemish ‘Insertion’ Practices

Pel

Bauler

2017

Ann Public Coop Econ

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“…However, while existing work in climate governance and transformation governance literatures has informed policy and practice actions, the insights and knowledge on actors, responsibilities and roles in partnering for bringing these actions to realisation remain mostly theoretical (Gillard et al 2016;Koop et al 2017;Castán Broto 2017). Research on experimentation and politics in climate governance (Kivimaa et al 2017;Hoffman and Loeber 2015) and operational governance approaches like transition management (Loorbach et al 2015) contribute practical but fragmented insights on agency-level understandings of governance for transformation.…”

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Steering transformations under climate change: capacities for transformative climate governance and the case of Rotterdam, the Netherlands

2018

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In light of the persistent failure to reduce emissions decisively, facilitate long-term resilience against climate change and account for the connectedness of climate change with other social, environmental and economic concerns, we present a conceptual framework of capacities for transformative climate governance. Transformative climate governance enables climate mitigation and adaptation while purposefully steering societies towards low-carbon, resilient and sustainable objectives. The framework provides a systematic analytical tool for understanding and supporting the already ongoing changes of the climate governance landscape towards more experimental approaches that include multi-scale, cross-sectoral and public-private collaborations. It distinguishes between different types of capacities needed to address transformation dynamics, including responding to disturbances (stewarding capacity), phasing-out drivers of path dependency (unlocking capacity), creating and embedding novelties (transformative capacity) and coordinating multi-actor processes (orchestrating capacity). Our case study of climate governance in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, demonstrates how the framework helps to map the activities by which multiple actors create new types of conditions for transformative climate governance, assess the effectiveness of the capacities and identify capacity gaps. Transformative and orchestrating capacities in Rotterdam emerged through the creation of space and informal networks for strategic and operational innovation, which also propelled new types of governance arrangements and structures. Both capacities support stewarding and unlocking by integrating and mainstreaming different goals, connecting actors to each other for the development of solutions and mediating interests. Key challenges across capacities remain because of limited mainstreaming of long-term and integrated thinking into institutional and regulatory frameworks. As the ongoing changes in climate governance open up multiple questions about actor roles, effective governance processes, legitimacy and how effective climate governance in the context of transformations can be supported, we invite future research to apply the capacities framework to explore these questions.

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“…Socio-ecological perspectives that can be used to understand the complexity of systemic dynamics are also considered an important approach in transformation research [42] and focus on a range of empirical topics, from grasping the dynamics of dietary behaviours (e.g., [48]) to managing small-scale fisheries (e.g., [49]). Other qualitative analytical approaches that aim to understand the (technological) dynamics of food systems include technological innovation systems research (e.g., [50][51][52]), social practice approaches (e.g., [32,53,54]), and research focusing on the multitude of values involved in food systems transformation (e.g., [55,56]).…”

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Transforming Research and Innovation for Sustainable Food Systems—A Coupled-Systems Perspective

Kok¹,

Boer²,

Cesuroğlu³

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Sustainability

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Current research and innovation (R&I) systems are not equipped to fully serve as catalysts for the urgently needed transformation of food systems. Though research on food systems transformation (first order: ‘what?’) and transformative research (second order: ‘how to’) are rapidly gaining traction in academic and policy environments, current efforts fail to explicitly recognize the systemic nature of the challenges associated with performing transformative second-order research. To recognize these manifold and interlinked challenges embedded in R&I systems, there is a need for a coupled-systems perspective. Transformations are needed in food systems as well as R&I systems (‘how to do the “how to”’). We set out to conceptualize an approach that aims to trigger double transformations by nurturing innovations at the boundaries of R&I systems and food systems that act upon systemic leverage points, so that their multisystem interactions can better support food system transformations. We exemplify this coupled-systems approach by introducing the FIT4FOOD2030 project with its 25 living labs as a promising multilevel boundary innovation at the cross-section of R&I and food systems. We illustrate how this approach paves the way for double systems transformations, and therefore for an R&I system that is fit for future-proofing food systems.

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Exploring the Micro-politics in Transitions from a Practice Perspective: The Case of Greenhouse Innovation in the Netherlands

Cited by 61 publications

References 24 publications

A Transitions Studies Perspective on the Social Economy; Exploring Institutionalization and Capture in Flemish ‘Insertion’ Practices

A Transitions Studies Perspective on the Social Economy; Exploring Institutionalization and Capture in Flemish ‘Insertion’ Practices

Steering transformations under climate change: capacities for transformative climate governance and the case of Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Transforming Research and Innovation for Sustainable Food Systems—A Coupled-Systems Perspective

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