Actors working the institutions in sustainability transitions: The case of Melbourne's stormwater management
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...Acknowledging that some actors might be more related to regime contexts than others and that individuals might be more flexible in relating themselves to niches or regimes draws attention to issues of power asymmetries and the different types of influence actors have (63, 106, 107)....
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...In the socio-institutional approach, institutional dynamics (62, 63) are addressed more prominently to explain inertia and lock-in as well as to critically explore issues of power, politics, and agency (64–66)....
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...Examples are reconstructions of how individuals and transition arenas influenced or “managed” the course and direction of historical transitions such as in urban water management (63, 116, 125) and waste management (126)....
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...This points to current research directions for transition management, such as explorations of institutional change and formal policy (27, 52, 62, 63, 74), new forms of power (25, 75, 155, 156), and the role of researchers (157)....
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...…acting as ‘frontrunners’, who are ‘agents with the capacity to generate dissipative structures and operate within these deviant structures’ (Rotmans and Loorbach, 2010, p. 144), as ‘champions’ and/or ‘policy entrepreneurs’ (Brown et al. 2013, p. 703) or ‘intermediaries’ (Hargreaves et al., 2013)....
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...As outlined by others (Brown et al., 2013; Farla et al., 2012), drawing on work by institutional scholarship can be useful for analysing actors in transition studies....
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