Infrastructures, lock-in, and sustainable urban development: the case of waste incineration in the Goteborg Metropolitan Area
(2013) In Journal of Cleaner Production 50(1). p.32-39- Abstract
- This article explains how infrastructures with a sustainability record may evolve over time into a lock-in that slows the emergence of more sustainable urban infrastructures. A study of waste incineration in the Goteborg Metropolitan Area, Sweden, serves as an illustrative case. Taking leads from Unruh (2000, 2002), four rationales of lock-in are identified in the case: institutional, technical, cultural, and material. The article describes how these rationales, one by one and in collaboration, lock-in waste handling in the Goteborg Metropolitan Area to incineration. The article also suggests that these four rationales could serve as a program to unlock urban infrastructures. Asking the question "Are we in a lock-in?" is featured as a... (More)
- This article explains how infrastructures with a sustainability record may evolve over time into a lock-in that slows the emergence of more sustainable urban infrastructures. A study of waste incineration in the Goteborg Metropolitan Area, Sweden, serves as an illustrative case. Taking leads from Unruh (2000, 2002), four rationales of lock-in are identified in the case: institutional, technical, cultural, and material. The article describes how these rationales, one by one and in collaboration, lock-in waste handling in the Goteborg Metropolitan Area to incineration. The article also suggests that these four rationales could serve as a program to unlock urban infrastructures. Asking the question "Are we in a lock-in?" is featured as a practical starting point for planning changes in urban infrastructure governance that contribute to sustainability. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. (Less)
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- Corvellec, Hervé LU ; Zapata Campos, Maria José LU and Zapata, Patrik
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- 2013
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- Contribution to journal
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- published
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- keywords
- Urban, Incineration, Waste management, Lock-in, Infrastructure, governance, Sweden, sustainability, waste
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- Journal of Cleaner Production
- volume
- 50
- issue
- 1
- pages
- 32 - 39
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- Elsevier
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- wos:000320490600004
- scopus:84879975100
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- 0959-6526
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.jclepro.2012.12.009
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- Organizing critical infrastructure services-The case of Waste Management
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- English
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