How global regimes diffuse in space – Explaining a missed transition in San Diego's water sector
(2022) In Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 44. p.29-47- Abstract
Socio-technical regimes are highly institutionalized rationalities that have co-evolved with actors, technologies and institutions over extended periods of time and become taken for granted across geographical contexts. Transition studies feature an extensive focus on regime dynamics within specific territorial contexts. However, we know surprisingly little of how regime rationalities are constructed, diffused and reproduced across space. This is a key gap in the geography of sustainability transitions literature. This paper introduces a conceptual model to analyze transformative opportunities in regions and how regime actors strategically diffuse and implement global regime solutions through combinations of discursive and substantive... (More)
Socio-technical regimes are highly institutionalized rationalities that have co-evolved with actors, technologies and institutions over extended periods of time and become taken for granted across geographical contexts. Transition studies feature an extensive focus on regime dynamics within specific territorial contexts. However, we know surprisingly little of how regime rationalities are constructed, diffused and reproduced across space. This is a key gap in the geography of sustainability transitions literature. This paper introduces a conceptual model to analyze transformative opportunities in regions and how regime actors strategically diffuse and implement global regime solutions through combinations of discursive and substantive system reconfiguration activities. The empirical analysis draws upon a combination of Socio-Technical Configuration Analysis (STCA) of 354 newspaper articles and 10 in-depth expert interviews to illuminate how regime actors prevailed in diffusing and legitimizing the water sector's dominant socio-technical configuration in San Diego during a period of substantial transformative opportunities.
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- Miörner, Johan LU ; Heiberg, Jonas LU and Binz, Christian LU
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- publishing date
- 2022-09
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- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Desalination, Global regimes, Regime diffusion, Regional discourse dynamics, San Diego, Socio-technical configuration analysis
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- Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions
- volume
- 44
- pages
- 19 pages
- publisher
- Elsevier
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- scopus:85131434498
- ISSN
- 2210-4224
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.eist.2022.05.005
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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- Funding Information: We would like to thank Djamila Lesch for comments on a previous version of the paper. During 2021, the paper was presented at seminars at Eawag and CIRCLE and benefited from insightful comments by colleagues. We also acknowledge valuable inputs from two anonymous reviewers as well as the handling editor. The work benefited from generous support from the Swiss National Science Foundation [grant number 10001A_179219 / 1]. Publisher Copyright: © 2022
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