Humanizing sociotechnical transitions through energy justice: an ethical framework for global transformative change
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In this article, a multi-level perspective on sociotechnical systems and an integration of energy justice at the model's niche, regime and landscape level is explored, arguing that inattention to social justice issues can cause injustices whereas attention to them can provide a means to examine and potential resolve them.About:
This article is published in Energy Policy.The article was published on 2018-06-01 and is currently open access. It has received 184 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Sociotechnical system & Economic Justice.read more
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Justice, Nature and the Geography of Difference
TL;DR: In this article, the material frames of daily life are constituted and represented through social practices, not as separate elements but in relation to each other, and they then become fundamental to the exploration of political, economic and ecological alternatives to contemporary life.
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An agenda for sustainability transitions research: State of the art and future directions
Jonathan Köhler,Frank W. Geels,Florian Kern,Jochen Markard,Anna J. Wieczorek,Floortje Alkemade,Flor Avelino,Anna Bergek,Frank Boons,Lea Fünfschilling,David J. Hess,Georg Holtz,Sampsa Hyysalo,Kirsten Jenkins,Paula Kivimaa,Mari Martiskainen,Andrew McMeekin,Marie Susan Mühlemeier,Björn Nykvist,Elsie Onsongo,Bonno Pel,Rob Raven,Harald Rohracher,Björn A. Sandén,Johan Schot,Benjamin K. Sovacool,Bruno Turnheim,Daniel Welch,Peter Erskine Wells +28 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an extensive review and an updated research agenda for the field, classified into nine main themes: understanding transitions; power, agency and politics; governing transitions; civil society, culture and social movements; businesses and industries; transitions in practice and everyday life; geography of transitions; ethical aspects; and methodologies.
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Socio-technical transitions to sustainability: a review of criticisms and elaborations of the Multi-Level Perspective
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the socio-technical transition literature, particularly the Multi-Level Perspective, which investigates the fundamental changes in (energy, transport, housing, agro-food) systems that are needed to address persistent sustainability problems.
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Environmental justice: concepts, evidence and politics
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a very valuable study of human injustices and inequalities in relation to environmental challenges rather than being about the concept, espoused by those of the deep ecology persuasion, of justice for the environment.
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Justice and the Politics of Difference
TL;DR: Young as mentioned in this paper argues that normative theory and public policy should undermine group-based oppression by affirming rather than suppressing social group difference, and argues for a principle of group representation in democratic publics and for group-differentiated policies.
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Technological transitions as evolutionary reconfiguration processes: a multi-level perspective and a case-study
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Typology of sociotechnical transition pathways
Frank W. Geels,Johan Schot +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a typology of four transition pathways: transformation, reconfiguration, technological substitution, and de-alignment and re-alignments is presented, which differ in combinations of timing and nature of multi-level interactions.
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From sectoral systems of innovation to socio-technical systems: Insights about dynamics and change from sociology and institutional theory
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors make four contributions to the approach by addressing some open issues in the sectoral systems of innovation (SOSI) approach, namely, explicitly incorporating the user side in the analysis, suggesting an analytical distinction between systems, actors involved in them, and the institutions which guide actor perceptions and activities.
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Justice, nature, and the geography of difference
TL;DR: In this article, the Dialectics of Discourse are used to describe the relationship between social and environmental change, and a Cautionary Tale on Internal Relations is presented. But it does not address the effect of environmental change on social relations.
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