Governance experiments in climate action: Empirical findings from the 28 European Union countries

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Abstrakti

Climate targets call for novel policy measures to facilitate widespread adoption of low-carbon solutions and innovations. The literature on socio-technical systems argues that experimentation has a prominent role in enabling sustainability transition. Experiments represent ways of testing new ideas and methods across a wide range of policy fields. Governance experiments in particular can support accelerated diffusion of new solutions, because they integrate policy with innovations. Here, types of success factors in the implementation of governance experiments to mitigate climate change are examined. Statistical analysis of sustainability innovations in the 28 European Union countries indicates that the types of success factors in governance experiments differ from those of product and social experiments. Governance experimentation is more positioned within socio-technical regimes than in strategic niches. These results suggest that governance experiments may indeed provide new transition opportunities towards low-carbon societies.

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LehtiEnvironmental Politics
Vuosikerta27
Numero4
Sivut598-620
Sivumäärä23
ISSN0964-4016
DOI - pysyväislinkit
TilaJulkaistu - 28 helmik. 2018
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