Sustainability transitions in the developing world
| Autor: | María-Laura Franco-García, Juan M. Jauregui-Becker, Mónica Ramos-Mejía |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Department of Governance and Technology for Sustainability |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Sociotechnical system
Poverty business.industry 020209 energy Geography Planning and Development Environmental resource management UT-Hybrid-D Developing country Context (language use) 02 engineering and technology 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law 01 natural sciences Development studies Order (exchange) Sustainability 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Economics Institutional analysis Economic system business 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Environmental science & policy, 84, 217-223. Elsevier |
| ISSN: | 1462-9011 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.envsci.2017.03.010 |
| Popis: | The transitions to sustainability approach has proved to be useful for academics, policy makers and practitioners to understand and promote socio-technical transformations, often aiming at climate change alternatives in European countries. However, little attention has been paid to the limitations of using frameworks such as the Multi-level perspective and the Strategic Niche Management approach in the developing world. Here, countries exhibit a mixture of well- and ill-functioning institutions, in a context of market imperfection, clientelist and social exclusive communities, patriarchal households and patrimonial and/or marketised states. In order to explore such limitations, we have used an institutional framework documented in the development studies literature, which describes three types of institutional settings: ‘welfare’, ‘informal security’ and ‘insecurity’. This institutional analysis shows that (1) the context for innovation in developing countries is a loose scenario where the concepts of ‘pockets’ or ‘layers’ can be useful; (2) the characteristics of the institutional setting shape in several ways the quality of the niche structuration processes that create and unfold. Our rationale and illustrations call for bringing the poverty alleviation agenda into sustainability transitions studies in developing countries. We propose areas of further reflection attempting to inspire future research pathways. |
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