What governs the transition to a sustainable hydrogen economy? Articulating the relationship between technologies and political institutions

Environmental Accounting of Eco-innovations through Environmental Input–Output Analysis: The Case of Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Buses

“…Both preference and technological changes are not accounted for by the analysis. Like cost and benefit analysis in general, it ignores the possible gains from creative destruction (Hisschemoller et al, 2006). The linearity assumption holds in the LCA methodology too, particularly in the impact assessment phase in which both the relationship between the rate of production of a process and the rate of emission of a chemical and the connection between the latter and the resulting environmental impact are assumed to be described by linear functions (Heijungs, 2001, pp.…”

China’s Evolving Development Dilemma in the Context of the North-South Climate Governance Debate

“…There are different types of energy (and social) transitions. Such transitions can be led by corporate business, policy network ing, governance by addressing bottlenecks to innovation and governance by government (Hisschemoller et al 2006;Scholten 2012). The experience of Chinese experimentation with economic, political, social and technological transition is that the transition is likely to be led through governance by gov ernment.…”

Secure Oil and Alternative Energy

“…The point of departure in this chapter is that 'energy options may, apart from specifijic characteristics related to technology, costs and public 3 By institutional requirements, Hisschemöller et al (2006Hisschemöller et al ( : 1228 refer to '(a) the guiding policy framework, including laws, regulations, instruments, measures, (b) networks of organizations and actors, which articulate the dominant dimensions of conflict and consensus in a society and (c) the formal and informal rules of the game that shape actors' behaviour as well as the actual implementation of policies and laws ' . 4 'A paradigm is understood as a set of assumptions with respect to a certain policy problem, i.e. a problem which is supposed to require some sort of collective action.…”

“…a problem which is supposed to require some sort of collective action. […] They articulate a consistent line of argument, which includes causes and efffects, goals and means, and problems and solutions' (Hisschemöller et al 2006(Hisschemöller et al : 1228 perception of risk, have institutional requirements3 [and that in turn] political institutions show a preference for specifijic technologies and a dislike of others' (Hisschemöller et al 2006(Hisschemöller et al : 1228. However, it remains to be seen which specifijic efffect governance paradigms may have on renewable innovation processes.…”