Essays about: "Niche Innovations"

Showing result 26 - 30 of 31 essays containing the words Niche Innovations.

  1. 26. Climate governance by experiment? Exploring local climate initiatives through transition theory

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Miljövetenskaplig utbildning

    Author : Max Thulin; [2016]
    Keywords : climate change experiments; low-carbon transitions; transition theory; multi-level perspective; KLIMP; Social Sciences; Earth and Environmental Sciences; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : The response to climate change in cities has proliferated over the last few decades, and progressive climate action at the local level is now ubiquitous. More specifically, local climate action often comes in the shape of ‘climate change experiments’, radical innovations at the local level designed to respond to the imperatives of mitigating and adapting to climate change in the city. READ MORE

  3. 27. The role of cities in developing radical innovations: An analysis of niche-development in urban areas based on the Multi-Level Perspective

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

    Author : Christian Clausen; [2015]
    Keywords : ecological modernization; multi-level perspective; urban; transition studies; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Thinking up new ideas and solutions might be hard; replacing old ones even more so. Ecological Modernization theory has helped significantly with the former, and now transition scholars are trying to resolve the latter. READ MORE

  4. 28. Niche-markets subsidy for effective diffusion of battery electric vehicles in Sweden

    University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Avdelningen för ekoteknik och hållbart byggande

    Author : Robert Christiaan van Sloten; [2015]
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    Abstract : This study suggests an improved policy pathway for a higher adoption of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) in Sweden. By use of Rogers’ Diffusion of Innovations it was shown that Sweden’s current policy is ineffective due to equal incentives on plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and battery electric vehicles. READ MORE

  5. 29. Slow Food in Transition: A study of niche development in Stockholm

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Stockholm Resilience Centre

    Author : Margaret Berry; [2014]
    Keywords : slow food; sustainable development; food systems; knowledge sharing;

    Abstract : Food systems represent one of the most critical resources under threat as a result of an unsustainable dominant regime. It is essential that the agricultural sector and food systems be addressed in order to achieve systemic and lasting change for sustainable development. READ MORE

  6. 30. To renew a new city from niche to regime level : Actor network properties and inertia in the transition to electric vehicles and energy management. The citizens’ initiative of Hammarby Sjöstad 2020

    University essay from KTH/Miljöstrategisk analys (fms)

    Author : Maria-Angeliki Evliati; [2013]
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    Abstract : Cities are receiving increasing attention in sustainability research as the appropriate spatial entities for local solutions to global problems. In this context, urban components tend to demonstrate great inertia against socio-technical innovations. READ MORE