Understanding energy transitions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12950684 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Frans Berkhout (0000-0001-8668-0470, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, corresponding author), Peter John Marcotullio (0000-0001-8133-1204, City University of New York), Tatsuya Hanaoka (0000-0002-8384-7383, National Institute for Environmental Studies) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 109-111 |
| Publication date | 2012-06-22 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sustainability Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1862-4057 • E-ISSN: 1862-4065 |
| Publisher | Springer Science+Business Media (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s11625-012-0173-5 |
| OpenAlex | W2145097390 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 3 |
Global sustainability is increasingly influenced by economic growth and social change in non-OECD countries, especially in Asia.Growth models suggest that industrializing economies will become first relatively more resource-and pollution-intensive, before becoming more resource-efficient and less polluting, following the pattern of higher-income economies.This 'environmental convergence' is assumed to parallel economic convergence during processes of catching-up by latecomer countries.To accelerate environmental convergence, or to achieve pathways of 'green growth', greater emphasis needs to be placed on sustainable innovation and capability-building in latecomer countries.Drawing on insights from system innovation research on long-run change in socio-technical systems, we discuss the potential role of 'sustainability experiments' to generate innovations that will constitute new 'greener' growth models.We observe a great number of sustainabilityoriented innovation initiatives in latecomer countries.We set out a conceptual framework for assessing the role of experiments, and for evaluating how they link with and become anchored in alternative more sustainable regimes.We argue that sustainability experiments represent a potentially significant new source of innovation and capability-formation, linked to global knowledge and technology flows, which could influence emergent socio-technical regimes and thereby contribute to alternative development pathways
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| Citations per year | 0.64 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2023 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |