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Experimenting for Sustainable Transport - The Approach of Strategic Niche Management (Hardcover): Remco Hoogma, Rene Kemp,... Experimenting for Sustainable Transport - The Approach of Strategic Niche Management (Hardcover)
Remco Hoogma, Rene Kemp, Johan Schot, Bernhard Truffer
R5,529 Discovery Miles 55 290 Ships in 12 - 19 working days


Technological change is a central feature of modern societies and a powerful source for social change. There is an urgent task to direct these new technologies towards sustainability, but society lacks perspectives, instruments and policies to accomplish this. There is no blueprint for a sustainable future, and it is necessary to experiment with alternative paths that seem promising. Various new transport technologies promise to bring sustainability benefits. But as this book shows, important lessons are often overlooked because the experiments are not designed to challenge the basic assumptions about established patterns of transport choices. Learning how to organise the process of innovation implementation is essential if the maximum impact is to be achieved - it is here that strategic niche management offers new perspectives. The book uses a series of eight recent experiments with electric vehicles, carsharing schemes, bicycle pools and fleet management to illustrate the means by which technological change must be closely linked to social change if successful implementation is to take place. The basic divide between proponents of technological fixes and those in favour of behavioural change needs to be bridged, perhaps indicating a third way.

Reflexive Governance for Sustainable Development (Hardcover): Jan-Peter Voss, Dierk Bauknecht, Rene Kemp Reflexive Governance for Sustainable Development (Hardcover)
Jan-Peter Voss, Dierk Bauknecht, Rene Kemp
R4,697 Discovery Miles 46 970 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book deals with the issue of sustainable development in a novel and innovative way. It examines the governance implications of reflexive modernisation - the condition that societal development is endangered by its own side-effects. With conceptualising reflexive governance the book leads a way out of endless quarrels about the definition of sustainability and into a new mode of collective action. The authors assert that sustainability is not a defined end-state, but should be understood as the capacity of society to learn about the conditions of its future existence and wants. This requires, in their view, a specific kind of problem solving framework which emphasises the interlinkage of problems and scales, as well as long-term and indirect effects of various actions. Sustainability calls for new forms of governance with attention given to uncertainty, ambivalence about multiple goals and distributed power. The book develops an alternative framework with which to address the challenge of sustainability and derives a set of strategy elements for dealing with sustainability in practice. These are discussed from conceptual as well as practical perspectives. Bringing recent insights from innovation research, governance studies and complexity theory in common focus, Reflexive Governance for Sustainable Development will be of great interest to researchers in social change, innovation and governance studies, as well as policymakers confronted with sustainable development issues.

Experimenting for Sustainable Transport - The Approach of Strategic Niche Management (Paperback): Remco Hoogma, Rene Kemp,... Experimenting for Sustainable Transport - The Approach of Strategic Niche Management (Paperback)
Remco Hoogma, Rene Kemp, Johan Schot, Bernhard Truffer
R1,819 Discovery Miles 18 190 Ships in 12 - 19 working days


Technological change is a central feature of modern societies and a powerful source for social change. There is an urgent task to direct these new technologies towards sustainability, but society lacks perspectives, instruments and policies to accomplish this. There is no blueprint for a sustainable future, and it is necessary to experiment with alternative paths that seem promising. Various new transport technologies promise to bring sustainability benefits. But as this book shows, important lessons are often overlooked because the experiments are not designed to challenge the basic assumptions about established patterns of transport choices. Learning how to organise the process of innovation implementation is essential if the maximum impact is to be achieved - it is here that strategic niche management offers new perspectives. The book uses a series of eight recent experiments with electric vehicles, carsharing schemes, bicycle pools and fleet management to illustrate the means by which technological change must be closely linked to social change if successful implementation is to take place. The basic divide between proponents of technological fixes and those in favour of behavioural change needs to be bridged, perhaps indicating a third way.

Automobility in Transition? - A Socio-Technical Analysis of Sustainable Transport (Hardcover): Frank W Geels, Rene Kemp, Geoff... Automobility in Transition? - A Socio-Technical Analysis of Sustainable Transport (Hardcover)
Frank W Geels, Rene Kemp, Geoff Dudley, Glenn Lyons
R4,956 Discovery Miles 49 560 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Is the automobility regime experiencing a transition towards sustainability? To answer that question, this book investigates stability and change in contemporary transport systems. It makes a socio-technical analysis of transport systems, exploring the strategies and beliefs of crucial actors such as car manufacturers, local and national governments, citizens, car drivers, transport planners and civil society. Two guiding questions are: Will we see a greening of cars, based on technological innovations that sustain the existing car-based system? Or is something more radical desirable and likely, such as the development of travel regimes in which car use is less dominant?

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