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The governance of sustainable socio-technical transitions
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In this paper, a quasi-evolutionary model of socio-technical transitions is described in which regimes face selection pressures continuously and differentiated transition contexts determine the form and direction of regime change in response to these pressures.About:
This article is published in Research Policy.The article was published on 2005-12-01. It has received 1898 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Regime change & Transition management (governance).read more
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Scotland's Rubbish: Domestic Recycling, Policy and Practice in Everyday Life
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a survey of waste management in Scotland, focusing on the waste and recycling as a sociological problem and the role of social science in this problem.
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Municipal utilities and electric cooperatives in the United States: Interpretive frames, strategic actions, and place-specific transitions
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify how four divergent strategies shape distinct technology configurations with differences in physical scale, concentration of political authority, and distribution of economic benefits, and suggest that local technology ownership may not be sufficient to motivate change in some contexts.
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The three great issues confronting Europe - economic, environmental and political
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that a return to classic economic growth cannot come at the expense of greater risk of irreversible climate change, and what is required is a fundamental transformation of the economy to a new 'green' trajectory based on rapidly diminishing emission of greenhouse gases.
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Preparing the design of robust climate policy architectures
TL;DR: The design of climate policy architectures depends on how its multiple designers identify the climate problem, on the principles they adhere to, and on the criteria they apply for assessing the performance of the constructed agreements as discussed by the authors.
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The Need for Governance by Experimentation: The Case of Biofuels
TL;DR: This paper suggests to apply an experimental framework to the development of sustainable biobased technologies and builds on insights from adaptive management and transition management in that it has the stimulation of learning effects at its core.
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Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance
TL;DR: Douglass C. North as discussed by the authors developed an analytical framework for explaining the ways in which institutions and institutional change affect the performance of economies, both at a given time and over time.
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Institutions, Institutional Change, and Economic Performance
Douglass C. North,John Alt +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the role that institutions, defined as the humanly devised constraints that shape human interaction, play in economic performance and how those institutions change and how a model of dynamic institutions explains the differential performance of economies through time.
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Locating the 17th Book of Giddens@@@The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration.
Alan Sica,Anthony Giddens +1 more
TL;DR: Giddens as mentioned in this paper has been in the forefront of developments in social theory for the past decade and outlines the distinctive position he has evolved during that period and offers a full statement of a major new perspective in social thought, a synthesis and elaboration of ideas touched on in previous works but described here for the first time in an integrated and comprehensive form.
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The Constitution of Society. Outline of the Theory of Structuration
TL;DR: Giddens as discussed by the authors has been in the forefront of developments in social theory for the past decade and outlines the distinctive position he has evolved during that period and offers a full statement of a major new perspective in social thought, a synthesis and elaboration of ideas touched on in previous works but described here for the first time in an integrated and comprehensive form.
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Evolution and the Theory of Games
TL;DR: A modification of the theory of games, a branch of mathematics first formulated by Von Neumann and Morgenstern in 1944 for the analysis of human conflicts, was proposed in this paper.