Regional Strategies for Renewable Energies: Development Processes in Greater Manchester

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

“…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.…”

“…For instance, Hodson and Marvin (2009) highlight that the visions promoted by urban government may be developed by exogenous actors such as multinational firms, which deliberately search for specific places to test them in real life. Importantly, interaction between different policy levels is not merely a top-down process, and Faller (2014) notes that urban strategic discourses can also influence policies at higher levels, thus, the relation between policy levels should be understood as a two-way influence.…”

“…This infrastructure has in many cases been privatised, thus, governance of sustainability transitions increasingly becomes a collaborative effort involving public and private actors with varied interests and incentives (Lagendijk and Boertjes 2013). This results in highly complex processes (Faller 2014;Monstadt 2007) Bulkeley and Castán Broto (2013) argue that one important manner in which this power is exercised is through urban climate change experiments, and they show that the actor constellations behind these experiments vary considerable between different parts of the world. For instance, the private sector is particularly active in Asian climate change experiments.…”

Comment la géographie est-elle impliquée dans la construction des connaissances sur la transition énergétique ? Un état de l’art et des pistes d’approfondissement des recherches

“…Des recherches ont montré que si la gouvernance des politiques de transition énergétique urbaine est influencée par les politiques nationales, elle l'est aussi par les firmes multinationales (Hodson et Marvin, 2009, cités par Coenen et Hansen, 2015Jaglin et Verdeil, 2013, op.cit.). Toutefois, F. Faller (2014) Bailleul (2019) qui a dénombré à Nantes une soixantaine d'acteurs autour de la question de la précarité énergétique, constituant un défi pour les collectivités territoriales. Son analyse, bien que de type expertise de la gouvernance, enrichit l'approche géographique de cette problématique, en insistant sur le changement d'échelles et sur les rapports de pouvoir dans le contexte de la décentralisation et de l'aménagement du territoire.…”