Local Demonstrations for Global Transitions—Dynamics across Governance Levels Fostering Socio-Technical Regime Change Towards Sustainability

Späth, Philipp; Rohracher, Harald

doi:10.1080/09654313.2012.651800

Cited by 242 publications

(107 citation statements)

References 37 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

100

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…Naturally, the relation between governmental policies and informal localised institutions is close, as noted by multiple authors in analyses ranging from the national to the regional and local levels (Angel and Rock 2009;Faller 2014;Späth and Rohracher 2012). To exemplify, Angel and Rock (2009) note the importance of discourses, commitment to environmental improvement and citizen pressure for differences in changes to formal regulation among East Asian countries.…”

Section: Sustainability Transitions and Place Specificitymentioning

confidence: 95%

“…global production networks or donor interventions, and their ability to influence transition processes in the receiving countries (Angel and Rock 2009;Berkhout et al 2009;2011;Hansen and Nygaard 2013;Schmidt and Dabur 2014). Also, work focusing on the governance of sustainability transitions have paid particular attention to interaction between decision makers at various scales, and the importance of global relations for local transition processes (Coutard and Rutherford 2010;Marvin 2009, 2010;Späth and Rohracher 2012). Some authors even adopt a perspective drawing on the relational conceptualisation of space.…”

Section: Sustainability Transitions and Scale In Inter-organisationalmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

The geography of sustainability transitions: Review, synthesis and reflections on an emergent research field

Hansen

Coenen

2015

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

673

396

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Section: Sustainability Transitions and Place Specificitymentioning

confidence: 95%

Section: Sustainability Transitions and Scale In Inter-organisationalmentioning

confidence: 99%

The geography of sustainability transitions: Review, synthesis and reflections on an emergent research field

Hansen

Coenen

2015

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

673

396

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

“…Arbo and Benneworth (2007) pinpoint that a significant part of HEIs' regional potential lies in the fact that they are often not purely regional bodies but are multiscalar in nature, integrating the global, national and regional scale. They localize elements of both, "local nodes" and "global networks" (Späth and Rohracher 2012). Thus HEIs are expected to fulfil a bridging and brokering function between international research communities and the needs of regional stakeholders for tailormade knowledge.…”

Section: Conceptual Framework-regional Transition Paths To Sustainabimentioning

confidence: 99%

The role of higher education institutions in regional transition paths towards sustainability

Radinger-Peer

Pflitsch

2017

Rev Reg Res

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The present paper investigates the role of the located Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in the transformation towards sustainability of the city of Linz as well as the region of Upper Austria. We argue that HEIs have the potential to spur a regional transition towards sustainability via the channels of teaching, research and outreach. We furthermore take into account that organisational-and field-level drivers influence the role of HEIs within the regional transition paths towards sustainability (RTPS). We chose an explorative research design in order to give a realistic picture of the potentials and limitations of HEIs' involvement in regional transitions to sustainability. The role of the five HEIs located in the city of Linz is studied through in-depth expert interviews and a comprehensive document analysis. The investigation reveals that there is no contribution of HEIs as a whole to RTPS, but that the impact is dependent on individual highly engaged "frontrunners" enacting change and at the same time on leadership from the university management. Moreover, regulative drivers at the field-level and normative as well as cognitive drivers at the organisational-level affect HEIs' contribution.

show abstract

“…Designated spaces of innovation including urban and living laboratories, low-carbon districts, testbeds, innovation zones, special purpose zones, and demonstration sites (Graham & Marvin, 2001;Evans et al, 2015;Voytenko et al, 2016). The emphasis on districts focuses on the unique sociotechnical configurations of a particular context and provides real world sites of demonstration that can be visited and experienced first-hand (Shapin & Shaffer, 1985;Reno, 2011;Späth & Rohracher, 2012).…”

Section: Fragmenting the Citymentioning

confidence: 99%

Innovating Climate Governance

Turnheim¹,

Kivimaa

Berkhout

2018

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Over the last decade, a multitude of urban climate change experiments have emerged to go beyond traditional role of the state in environmental governance. These activities provide a real world evidence base for how a low-carbon world could be realised and they have the potential to fundamentally change the way that cities are conceived, built, and managed. Most urban climate change experiments are designed to be geographically and temporally bounded to accelerate innovation activities and realise actual changes on the ground. But what if urban experiments did not scale up? What if, instead of informing existing modes of urban governance, they became the dominant approach to governing cities? What would a 'city of permanent experiments' look like and how would it function? This chapter speculates on the implications of experimentation as the new mode of governance for twenty-first century cities. Here, experiments are not interpreted as one-off trials to provide evidence and justification for new low-carbon policies, regulations, and service provision; instead, they are emerging as a new mode of governance in themselves. This emerging form of urban governance is characterised by uncertainty, recursive learning processes, and spatial fragmentation with multiple unknown implications on the politics of cities in the future.

show abstract

Local Demonstrations for Global Transitions—Dynamics across Governance Levels Fostering Socio-Technical Regime Change Towards Sustainability

Cited by 242 publications

References 37 publications

The geography of sustainability transitions: Review, synthesis and reflections on an emergent research field

The geography of sustainability transitions: Review, synthesis and reflections on an emergent research field

The role of higher education institutions in regional transition paths towards sustainability

Innovating Climate Governance

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About