Geographies of Sustainability Transitions - Embedding Sustainability into Regional Economic Development Strategies: Actors, Dynamics, and Pathways
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This dissertation examines the role of institutional and social dynamics for the development of regions towards sustainability. Against the background of economic, ecological, and social crises, the integration, development, and dissemination of sustainable economic development strategies are becoming more and more relevant. While the line of transition research focuses on socio-technical regimes and their development towards sustainability, spatialities of these dynamics has been integrated into scientific research in recent years by the Geographies of Sustainability Transitions. The interdependencies between regional institutional systems and the practices of the actors involved can lead to gradual short-term changes and to larger institutional changes in the long term. However, the interplay and mechanisms of gradual changes and long-term transitions are largely unexplored.
To seize the socio-spatial dynamics of sustainable strategies (policies), this thesis uses the concept of Policy Mobilities. The processes analyzed in this line of research comprise dynamics determining the invention, mobilization, transfer, and localization of policies. Policies are important components for the institutional and practical development of an organization or region, as they provide guidelines for dealing with specific problems. In the theoretical framework of this thesis, the concept of Policy Mobilities is brought together with the evolutionary approach of Knowledge Dynamics to explain the constructive interdependencies between global knowledge flows and regional policy innovation processes.
The dissertation focuses the question of how the interdependencies of (policy) knowledge, regional institutions, and practices influence Regional Transition Paths to Sustainability. Hence, three scientific articles examine these dynamics with an emphasis on the role of consultants as mediators and initiators for sustainable action and thinking. This actor-centered approach necessitated ethnographic and practice-based methods (Action Research) and draws on individual cases in the empirical examples presented.
The results show that all three theoretical approaches used in this thesis, individually and in combination, can make useful contributions to research the Geographies of Sustainability Transitions.
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Created: 2021Issued: 2021-08-19Updated: 2021-08-19
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Fachbereich Geowissenschaften
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Philipps-Universität Marburg
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ger
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Knowledge DynamicsNachhahtigkeitstransitionRTPSPolicy MobilitiesRTPSSustainability TransitionsPolicy MobilitiesWissensdynamiken
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AktionsforschungFallstudieNachhaltigkeitWirtschaftsförderung
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550
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Werner, Paul (0000-0001-5122-9903): Geographies of Sustainability Transitions - Embedding Sustainability into Regional Economic Development Strategies: Actors, Dynamics, and Pathways. : Philipps-Universität Marburg 2021-08-19. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17192/z2021.0482.
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