| Title |
Axes of contestation in sustainability transitions |
| ID_Doc |
18709 |
| Authors |
Madsen, S; Miörner, J; Hansen, T |
| Title |
Axes of contestation in sustainability transitions |
| Year |
2022 |
| Published |
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| Abstract |
Research in sustainability transitions increasingly acknowledges that the structural characteristics of socio-technical systems differ. However, little attention has been paid to the specific transition dynamics that can result from this structural variation. In response, this paper develops a framework for studying transition dynamics that takes the structural characteristics of socio-technical systems and their influence on agency into account. We introduce the concept contes-tation axis to highlight alternative potential interfaces between functional solutions in a socio-technical system. We argue that considerable agency and frictions between actors can play out at other axes than between established regimes and emerging niches. Our conceptual framework is applied to a case study in the waste sector. We explore how the growing influence of the cir-cular economy triggers misalignment between multiple socio-technical configurations in the Danish waste sector. In the case, we zoom in on three actual frictions that have manifested along different contestation axes. |
| PDF |
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2022.11.001
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