Essays about: "socio-technological transition"

Found 2 essays containing the words socio-technological transition.

1. 1. Paradoxical Permaculture? : the mainstreaming of permaculture in Sweden. An analysis of discursive practices in the niche-regime interaction

   University essay from SLU/Swedish Biodiversity Centre

   Author : Guy Finkill; [2019]
   Keywords : permaculture; strategic niche management; social movement; food production regime;

   Abstract : Permaculture purportedly offers a range of solutions to the negative externalities that arise from the dominant processes of monoculture crop cultivation and industrialised food production. This thesis identifies the discursive practices used by Swedish permaculturists to communicate and promote the advantages of permaculture over the incumbent industrial food production regime. READ MORE

3. 2. Identifying social and political obstacles to bioethanol production from sugarcane in East Java, Indonesia

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

   Author : Anna Carlsson; [2017]
   Keywords : biofuels; bioethanol; sugarcane farming; sugar industry; socio-technological transition; Indonesia; East Java; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Indonesia has implemented national policies and legislations to encourage biofuel production as means to achieve energy security and self-sufficiency and to reduce reliance of fossil fuel reserves. However, there is still no clear road-map for the socio-technological transition. READ MORE