Essays about: "socio-institutional transitions"

Found 3 essays containing the words socio-institutional transitions.

  1. 1. ”There is a need for people who can provide a transition”: A case study of how educational activities empower actors to engage in a local transition of the waste system on Bornholm, Denmark

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Kathrine Gjesing Hansen; [2023]
    Keywords : socio-institutional transitions; Denmark; power; education; municipal waste management; Sustainability Science; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Sustainable waste management is a complex task within environmental governance, and municipalities play a key role in governing a transition of the waste system toward prevention and reuse. This calls for an enhanced understanding of local capacities for change, and therefore this thesis adopts a socio-institutional perspective on the power of actors to influence local transitions. READ MORE

  3. 2. 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)

    Author : Kamwasir Kamwasir; [2022]
    Keywords : Sustainability; Sustainability transition; public sector organizations; multi-level perspective; niches; micro-niches;

    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

  4. 3. Barriers and drivers for sustainable mobility in Cuenca, Ecuador, Reflections towards sustainable mobility transitions

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Internationella miljöinstitutet

    Author : María Gabriela Cordero Vasquez; [2018]
    Keywords : sustainability transitions; sustainable mobility; urban mobility; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Acknowledging, the research gap within sustainability transitions in analysing the local scale of transition processes, this work primarily, seeks to contribute to sustainability transitions studies by identifying the main factors that are enabling and hindering the materialization of low carbon mobility in Cuenca, Ecuador. The use of a case study as a research strategy and the nature of the research objective required a qualitative approach, that consisted in the collection of qualitative data through semi-structured interviews and document review. READ MORE