Essays about: "Socio-Technical Approach"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 67 essays containing the words Socio-Technical Approach.

1. 21. TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE ROAD TRANSPORT - Key factors on consumers’ willingness to adopt electric vehicles in Sweden

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Gökay Cinar; [2021-07-14]
   Keywords : Sustainable Road Transport; Electric Vehicle; Sweden; Rational Choice Theory; Multi-level Perspective Framework;

   Abstract : This study aims to explore and understand key factors that influence consumers’ willingness to adopt electric vehicles in Sweden. As the world is facing the climate change reality, many initiatives are taking place in various sectors in different countries to tackle climate change. READ MORE

3. 22. Making Socio-Technical Transition Pathways : The establishment of the Swedish Climate Policy Council, an Argumentative Policy Analytical case study

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Eskil Engström; [2021]
   Keywords : transitions discourse; climate change acts; socio-technical transitions; transition pathways; argumentative discourse analysis; climate policy evaluation;

   Abstract : In recent years, several nations have adopted institutional framework laws, so-called Climate Change Acts (CCAs), as means to enforce Paris-compliant mitigation pathways. A key institutional feature to ensure policy stability and compliance with CCAs has been the establishment of independent advisory bodies, tasked with advising on mitigation targets and policy instruments, as well as the, monitoring and evaluation of target attainment. READ MORE

4. 23. Dissecting the sharing paradigm: A case-study research of rural Japan

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

   Author : Gabriele Ninivaggi; [2021]
   Keywords : Sharing economy; Rural economy; Socio-technical transition; Revitalization Policy; Innovation; Rural Japan; Framing; Sharing paradigm; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The sharing economy emerged in the last decade as an innovative business model in response to economic fallout, societal distress, and surging awareness over the devastating effects of the climate crisis. It pledges to repudiate mass consumption in favour of a democratization of access to common resources. READ MORE

5. 24. Recycled fibers for circular economy - The case of the fashion industry

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

   Author : Estelle Golay; [2021]
   Keywords : Fast-Fashion; Socio-Technical ST Systems; Stakeholder Theory; Sustainable Business Models SBM ; Sustainable Development;

   Abstract : Some fashion companies have started to use recycled fibers to improve their sustainability practices, as it is a way to implement circularity into their business. By combining the theoretical frameworks of stakeholder theory, socio-technical (ST) systems and sustainable business models (SBM), this study discusses how the current business models of fashion companies relate to the concept of circular economy and what fashion companies’ future perspectives are. READ MORE

6. 25. The role of business models for technology innovation : a case study on Power-to-Gas

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Economics

   Author : Tone Fjellstedt; Thomas Hill Anderson Galbraith; [2021]
   Keywords : business models; low carbon transition; performative market device; sector-coupling; power-to-gas technology;

   Abstract : The thesis contributes to the understanding of business models as performative market devices for development and uptake of technological innovation in low carbon transitions. Transition studies are criticised for neglecting the role of business models as part of socio-technical transitions. READ MORE