Linking the multi-level perspective with social representations theory: Gasifiers as a niche innovation reinforcing the energy-from-waste (EfW) regime

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Linking the multi-level perspective with social representations theory: Gasifiers as a niche innovation reinforcing the energy-from-waste (EfW) regime. / Levidow, Les; Upham, Paul.
in: Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Jahrgang 120, 01.07.2017, S. 1-13.

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title = "Linking the multi-level perspective with social representations theory: Gasifiers as a niche innovation reinforcing the energy-from-waste (EfW) regime",
abstract = "The multi-level perspective (MLP) theorises technological change as a process of niche innovations competing with incumbent socio-technical regimes. As a mid-range theoretical framework, the MLP invites complementary, more detailed theorisation of salient issues, especially the roles of socio-political agency in changing regime rules around technological competition. Taking a socio-cognitive perspective, this paper links the MLP with social representations theory, to show how a new technology is diversely 'anchored' in a familiar one for different agendas. The case study is a specific niche innovation - thermal treatments of municipal solid waste (MSW) within the UK's wider regime of energy-from-waste (EfW). Through landscape-level changes, controversy over incinerators has destabilised the EfW regime's rules. This instability has opened up opportunities for gasifiers as a niche innovation, yet gasifiers have also become an extra focus for conflict over incinerators' wider role in the waste hierarchy. Agents compare thermal-treatment options for MSW according to various criteria which have unstable, changing rules. These express different socio-cognitive frameworks, analysed here as diverse social representations of novelty. The case study offers an insiders' perspective on endogenous enactment, i.e. the conflicting roles of socio-political agency in shaping transition pathways.",
keywords = "Sustainability Science, Multi-level perspective (MLP), Niche innovation, Social representations, Municipal solid waste (MSW), Advanced thermal treatment (ATT), Gasification",
author = "Les Levidow and Paul Upham",
note = "Open Access funded by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/K036793/1 - Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council/ EPSRC). This work was supported by grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Supergen programme during 2013–17, project no. EP/K036793/1, {\textquoteleft}Increasing energy yield from the integration of anaerobic digestion and pyrolysis{\textquoteright}, http://www.supergen-bioenergy.net/research-projects/increasing-the-energy-yield-from-the-integrations-of-anaerobic-digestion-and-pyrolysis/.",
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