An interdisciplinary perspective on scaling in transitions
- Autor(en)
- Paula Maria Bögel, Karoline Augenstein, Meike Levin-Keitel, Paul Upham
- Abstrakt
The question of how sustainable innovations and how niche experimentation lead to systemic changes are a core motivation of sustainability transitions research. As an inherently interdisciplinary field, although this question is addressed from different academic perspectives, the dominant understanding of relevant scaling processes is grounded in concepts of growth, diffusion and expansion. This article contributes to the discussion of more nuanced understandings of scaling, acknowledging the value of ontological levels for analytic purposes, but also drawing on knowledge from socio-psychological and spatial perspectives. Alternative understandings of spatial and agency-related scaling approaches are discussed and compared. An integrative socio-spatial framework is developed, providing a mid-range framework capable of supporting analysis of transitions that connects different disciplinary perspectives within a level-based ontology.
- Organisation(en)
- Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung
- Externe Organisation(en)
- Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Technische Universität Dortmund, University of Sussex Business School
- Journal
- Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions
- Band
- 42
- Seiten
- 170-183
- Anzahl der Seiten
- 14
- ISSN
- 2210-4224
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2021.12.009
- Publikationsdatum
- 03-2022
- Peer-reviewed
- Ja
- ÖFOS 2012
- 507012 Raumordnung
- Schlagwörter
- ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
- Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Environmental Science (miscellaneous), Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
- Sustainable Development Goals
- SDG 7 – Bezahlbare und saubere Energie
- Link zum Portal
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/9bfca1e0-368e-4a25-b0f6-5105e0f4a7d9