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Beyond Experiments:Embedding outcomes in climate governance
- Source :
- Sengers, F, Turnheim, B & Berkhout, F 2021, ' Beyond Experiments : Embedding outcomes in climate governance ', ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING C, vol. 39, no. 6, 2399654420953861, pp. 1148-1171 . https://doi.org/10.1177/2399654420953861, Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, SAGE Publishing, 2020, pp.1-24. ⟨10.1177/2399654420953861⟩, Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 39(6), 1148. SAGE Publications Ltd
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- International audience; Concerted action on climate change will require a continuing stream of social and technical innovations whose development and transmission will be influenced by public policies. New ways of doing things frequently emerge in innovative small-scale initiatives – ‘experiments’ – across sectors of economic and social life. These experiments are actionable expressions of novel governance and socio-technical arrangements. Mobilising and generalising the outputs of these experiments could lead to deep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions over the long-term. It is often assumed that the groundswell of socio-technical and governance experiments will ‘scale-up’ to systemic change. But the mechanisms for these wider, transformative impacts of experiments have not been fully conceptualised and explained. This paper proposes a conceptual framework for the mobilisation, generalisation and embedding of the outputs and outcomes of climate governance experiments. We describe and illustrate four ‘embedding mechanisms’ – (1) replication-proliferation; (2) expansion-consolidation; (3) challenging-reframing; and (4) circulation-anchoring – for entwined governance and socio-technical experiments. Through these mechanisms knowledge, capabilities, norms and networks developed by experiments become mobile and generic, and come to be embedded in reconfigured socio-technical and governance systems.
- Subjects :
- Sociotechnical system
Public Administration
Monitoring
Geography, Planning and Development
0211 other engineering and technologies
climate governance
Climate change
Public policy
02 engineering and technology
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Environmental Science (miscellaneous)
sustainability transitions
socio-technical systems
12. Responsible consumption
11. Sustainability
050602 political science & public administration
Socio-technical systems
Planning and Development
[SDV.EE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology, environment
Climate governance
Geography
Policy and Law
05 social sciences
021107 urban & regional planning
0506 political science
Management
Action (philosophy)
13. Climate action
Sustainability transitions
Embedding
Business
Economic system
Experiments
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 23996544
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Sengers, F, Turnheim, B & Berkhout, F 2021, ' Beyond Experiments : Embedding outcomes in climate governance ', ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING C, vol. 39, no. 6, 2399654420953861, pp. 1148-1171 . https://doi.org/10.1177/2399654420953861, Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, SAGE Publishing, 2020, pp.1-24. ⟨10.1177/2399654420953861⟩, Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 39(6), 1148. SAGE Publications Ltd
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....3417418b8580b27b3c4fafe1fabb5b3a