Institutional ‘lock-out’ towards local self-governance?
| Autor: | R.M. Mourik, Gpj Geert Verbong, Sylvia Breukers, van Lfm Luc Summeren |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Technology, Innovation & Society |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Economic growth
Public housing 020209 energy media_common.quotation_subject Energy Engineering and Power Technology 02 engineering and technology 010501 environmental sciences Public administration Institutions 01 natural sciences 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Quality (business) SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy Neighbourhood (mathematics) Environmental justice Path-dependency 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment Capacity building Social housing Self-governance Citizen journalism Intervention (law) Fuel Technology Energy efficiency Nuclear Energy and Engineering Business Neighbourhood Social Sciences (miscellaneous) SDG 7 – Betaalbare en schone energie |
| Zdroj: | Energy Research and Social Science, 23, 148-158. Elsevier |
| ISSN: | 2214-6296 |
| Popis: | In their efforts to improve social housing neighbourhoods, Dutch housing associations attempt to encourage tenants to take a more active role. Generally speaking, bottom-up initiatives and participatory approaches have become popular among Dutch policy-makers as ways to achieve sustainable energy goals. While the rise of local energy cooperatives seems to support this view, we also see that particularly in deprived neighbourhoods, there is no bottom-up activity, nor will it occur without external support. This paper thus examines a case of an externally initiated programme in a Dutch social housing neighbourhood, aiming to place tenants’ needs at the centre. Applying an environmental justice framework, we address both the historical-institutional legacies and the tenants’ positions, showing how institutional pressures built up over time have resulted in a diluting of the programme into a top-down technology-pushed approach. The relevance goes beyond this case: without ensuring the quality of the participation, institutional lock-ins can produce perverse outcomes, with the programme failing to achieve its (energy-efficiency) goals while the intended beneficiaries lose out. As a counterweight, an active process of capacity building is proposed, using an environmental justice approach to examine the conditions for local self-governance and how to address these in a participatory intervention. |
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