Assessing change agency in urban experiments for sustainability transitions
(2022) In Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 45. p.214-227- Abstract
Experimentation has become one of the prevailing modes of governing the transition toward sustainable practices in urban environments. The spatial variation of urban sustainability transition has been attributed to a variety of conditions erected at different spatial scales. What remains less well-understood is how spatial situatedness shapes agency in urban experiments and the shapes agency can take is a field that requires further research and frameworks. The paper addresses this gap by introducing a framework from the literature on regional development, identifying three distinct types of agency that shape regional development processes. Combining this framework with a process perspective on urban experiments, we develop an... (More)
Experimentation has become one of the prevailing modes of governing the transition toward sustainable practices in urban environments. The spatial variation of urban sustainability transition has been attributed to a variety of conditions erected at different spatial scales. What remains less well-understood is how spatial situatedness shapes agency in urban experiments and the shapes agency can take is a field that requires further research and frameworks. The paper addresses this gap by introducing a framework from the literature on regional development, identifying three distinct types of agency that shape regional development processes. Combining this framework with a process perspective on urban experiments, we develop an analytical framework, which allows for a more granular understanding of agency in urban sustainability transitions. The analytical framework is then brought to use in a case study of an urban experiment aiming to electrify public transport in Gothenburg, Sweden.
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- Roebke, Lukas ; Grillitsch, Markus LU and Coenen, Lars LU
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- 2022-12
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- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Climate action, Human agency, Institutional change, Public transport, Urban experimentation, Urban governance
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- Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions
- volume
- 45
- pages
- 14 pages
- publisher
- Elsevier
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- scopus:85141537060
- ISSN
- 2210-4224
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.eist.2022.10.007
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- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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- Funding Information: The funding of ElectriCity can also be connected to place-based leadership. The project was mainly funded by VG, CoG, Chalmers University and Volvo ( N.A., 2016 ). For this purpose, Volvo was granted financial support from the Swedish Energy Agency ( Energimyndigheten, 2014 ). However, this funding benefited other participating parties as well such as the consultants who were initially co-funded by Volvo and CoG and later by Volvo alone (I5). Publisher Copyright: © 2022
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