System interactions in socio-technical transitions: Extending the multi-level perspective

Papachristos, George; Sofianos, Aristotelis; Adamides, Emmanuel D.

doi:10.1016/j.eist.2013.03.002

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“…Public subsidies or strategic investments in the case of a new technology (Geels, 2005a), or through legislation in the case of innovative policy and governance arrangements, may be the intentional action that can create niche spaces and trigger a sustainability transition. Transition scholars propose other sources, or pathways of change (Geels & Schot, 2007), however, including pressure from the landscape level (or outside actors), or the build-up of internal regime tensions that ultimately lead to a reconfiguration of actor/technology/institution relations (Papachristos, Sofianos, & Adamides, 2013).…”

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Triggering transformative change: a development path approach to climate change response in communities

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While climate change action plans are becoming more common, it is still unclear whether communities have the capacity, tools, and targets in place to trigger the transformative levels of change required to build fundamentally low-carbon, resilient, healthy communities. Evidence increasingly supports the finding that this transformation is not triggered by climate policy alone, but rather is shaped by a broad array of decisions and practices that are rooted in underlying patterns of development. Even so, these findings have rarely penetrated the domain of practice, which often remains squarely focused on a relatively narrow set of climatespecific policies. This article builds a conceptual framework for understanding the dynamics of community-level development path transformations that may both dramatically reduce GHG emissions and significantly enhance community resilience. This framework illuminates eight critical enablers of innovation on climate change, each of which is illustrated by compelling examples of community-level experimentation on climate change across the province of British Columbia, Canada. It is concluded that community-based climate (or sustainability) policy might be more likely to trigger development path shifts if it employs a longer time horizon, recognition of adaptability and feedbacks, integrated decision making, and systems thinking. Policy relevance:This article deepens the understanding of the underlying drivers of both GHG emissions and vulnerability to climate change impacts. A development path framing of climate change responses suggests that highly nonlinear opportunities may emerge to push drivers of emissions or vulnerability over a tipping point and trigger a shift that cascades beyond the community in which the initial action took place. The findings highlight the need for policy approaches that use longer time horizons, systems thinking, adaptive management, and integrated decision making in community planning.

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“…Raven and Verbong (2009) added two other types of interaction, integration and spill-over. Papachristos et al (2013) argued that multi-regime interactions (disruptive or reinforcing) might influence the niche formation process through enabling niche transfer, interference or the emergence of a new niche. While all these focused on the possible outcomes of multi-regime interaction Konrad et al (2008) identified two ways in which these connections are established: functional and structural couplings.…”

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Deep Transitions: Emergence, Acceleration, Stabilization and Directionality

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Kanger

2016

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“…Although some authors (e.g. Diaz et al 2013;Geels 2014;Papachristos et al 2013) have recently suggested adaptations of the original model, it still revolves around these levels, and the studies mentioned above in relation to agriculture use it in this way.…”

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Systemic perspectives on scaling agricultural innovations. A review

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Leeuwis

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Agron. Sustain. Dev.

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Agricultural production involves the scaling of agricultural innovations such as disease-resistant and droughttolerant maize varieties, zero-tillage techniques, permaculture cultivation practices based on perennial crops and automated milking systems. Scaling agricultural innovations should take into account complex interactions between biophysical, social, economic and institutional factors. Actual methods of scaling are rather empirical and based on the premise of 'find out what works in one place and do more of the same, in another place'. These methods thus do not sufficiently take into account complex realities beyond the concepts of innovation transfer, dissemination, diffusion and adoption. As a consequence, scaling initiatives often do not produce the desired effect. They may produce undesirable effects in the form of negative spill-overs or unanticipated side effects such as environmental degradation, bad labour conditions of farm workers and loss of control of farming communities over access to genetic resources. Therefore, here, we conceptualise scaling processes as an integral part of a systemic approach to innovation, to anticipate on the possible consequences of scaling efforts. We propose a method that connects the heuristic framework of the multi-level perspective on socio-technical transitions (MLP) to a philosophical 'modal aspects' framework, with the objective of elucidating the connectedness between technologies, processes and practices. The resultant framework, the PRactice-Oriented Multi-level perspective on Innovation and Scaling (PROMIS), can inform research and policymakers on the complex dynamics involved in scaling. This is illustrated in relation to three cases in which the framework was applied: scaling agro-ecological practices in Nicaragua, farmer field schools on cocoa cultivation in Cameroon and 'green rubber' cultivation in Southwest China.

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System interactions in socio-technical transitions: Extending the multi-level perspective

Cited by 105 publications

References 61 publications

Triggering transformative change: a development path approach to climate change response in communities

Triggering transformative change: a development path approach to climate change response in communities

Deep Transitions: Emergence, Acceleration, Stabilization and Directionality

Systemic perspectives on scaling agricultural innovations. A review

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