Essays about: "niches and regimes"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 essays containing the words niches and regimes.
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1. Understanding Sustainability Transitions: The Perspective of Innovators in incumbent firms - A case study of the roles and challenges faced by innovators and incumbent firms
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : Creating green sustainable innovation is a step in the right direction towards a sustainable future. It is however not sure that incremental improvements will be enough, it is instead called for radical shifts in socio-technical systems, so called sustainability transitions. READ MORE
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2. Green is the New Black: Understanding Current and Prospective Pro-Environmental Activities in Ritual and Practice on Death
University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUSAbstract : Niche pro-environmental innovations in death practices are gaining attention from sector and public stakeholders but can be sidelined due to lack of ritual and practice to support their implementation. The way death practices are conducted in Sweden is examined using transdisciplinary research methods and the multi-level perspective to understand which niche innovations have and have not been incorporated into the regimes which contribute to the bereavement sector and subsequent landscape of Swedish culture. READ MORE
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3. Sustainability Transitions Antenarratives: Public Sector Organization Perspectives in Implementing Sustainability Oriented Projects in a Developing Country
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)Abstract : Sustainability has been considered a novel research field emerging from the desire to protect the environment, and equally emerging in transition discourses. This research explores the construction of sustainability transition processes and pathways in a public sector organization implementing a sustainability oriented program. READ MORE
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4. Multi-scalar view on niche diffusion - Understanding agency and institutional strategies in the process of diffusion of niche innovation
University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenAbstract : Only recently has a geographical viewpoint on sustainability transitions opened up the containerized view on transition trajectories. Next to the important step of institutionalising niche logics transforming them into regime rationalities, the multi-scalar perspective reveals that niches, as well as regimes, can also upscale. READ MORE
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5. Sustainability Transition in the Italian Electricity System: Incumbent Actors and their Power
University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenAbstract : On a global scale, the energy system is the biggest contributor to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, which accelerate the processes of global warming and climate change. The sustainability transition of energy systems is fundamental if the Paris Agreement goal of keeping the increase in global average temperature to below 2˚C compared to preindustrial levels is to be achieved. READ MORE