Although a transition to a sustainable alternative to automobility in this enclave seems elusive, given various stabilising landscape and regime factors, the research uncovered an interest for bottomup societal solutions such as a need for a local school bus and modern carpooling systems based on mobile phone technology. Bridging analytical approaches for lowcarbon transitions. A sociotechnical analaysis of sustainable transport. This book is unique because different kinds of expertise are brought together, as part of a historical analysis looking at coevolution.
The transition perspective and problems associated with car mobility 1. Geels and colleagues are not providing accounts of transition from era to era but, more modestly, from one technology to another such as the horse drawn carriage to the automobile. Routledge studies in sustainability transitions book 2. The governance of smart mobility 1 introduction the mass adoption of motor vehicles the automobility transition was one of, if not the, major socioeconomic transformations of the 20th century geels et al, 2012.
In this project coevolution processes are being studied of user practices, transport innovations, government policies how these give rise to new patterns and resistance. Routledge studies in sustainability transition heraugeber. Over the 80 years in which the car has wound itself inextricably into a large part of our. Is the automobility regime experiencing a transition towards sustainability. In collaboration with frank geels and derk loorbach 2 automobility in transition. Geels, rene kemp, geoff dudley and glenn lyons new york london first published 2012 by routledge 711 third avenue, new york, ny 10017 simultaneously published in the uk by routledge 2 park square, milton park. In taking this approach we work with the proposition that forms of energy consumption, including those associated with automobility, are usefully understood as outcomes of interconnected patterns of social practices, including working, shopping. A sociotechnical analysis of sustainable transport by geels, kemp, dudley and lyons. Whilst there is a number of distinctive volumes dealing with the global fascination with travel and transport that play on the lexicographic possibilities around. A sociotechnical analysis of sustainable transport by geels, kemp, dudley and lyons article pdf available october 2014 with 59 reads. Automobility is a conceptual framework developed to understand the personal, social, political, cultural, geographical, and technical systems shaping, and shaped by, the automobile. Geels, 9780415885058, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. A sociotechnical analysis of sustainable transport 20.
Technological transitions wikimili, the free encyclopedia. It makes a sociotechnical 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. It makes a sociotechnical analysis of transport systems, exploring the strategies and beliefs of crucial actors such as car manufacturers, local and national governments, citizens, car drivers. A sociotechnical analysis of sustainable transportroutledge. It makes a sociotechnical analysis of transport systems, exploring the strategies and beliefs of crucial actors s. In its application, transition management seeks to bring together multiple viewpoints and multiple approaches in a transition arena. Theories of social practice are also producing interesting insights on, for example, mobility and energy demand. The book investigates whether the current regime of automobility is in transition or not. Automobility in transition a sociotechnical analysis of sustainable. Critical approaches to transitions theory springerlink. Challenges to the dominance of the private car in the uk. Developed from the work on technological transitions is the field of transition management.
Dudley and g, lyons eds automobility in transition. This is also the strength of the transition perspective. A sociotechnical analysis of sustainable transport edited by frank w. Mobilities research and sustainability transition theories.
Arguably, these recurring questions call for critical approaches to transitions theory. The models are being used to think about ways to transition in the future to. In strictly academic terms, the book should be praised for giving visibility to transition theories and the multilevel. The dynamics of transitions in sociotechnical systems. Automobility in transition a sociotechnical analysis of. Isbn 9780415885058 full text not available from this repository. Incremental change has provided some improvements but a more radical transition is required to achieve a more sustainable future. It makes a sociotechnical 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. Questions have been raised about its theorization of agency and transformation dynamics, and especially about the normative assumptions underlying its intervention strategies. Geels, rene kemp, geoff dudley and glenn lyons part i. A sociotechnical analysis of sustainable transport.
The governance of smart mobility disruption project. To answer that question, this book investigates stability and change in contemporary transport systems. I the transition perspective and problems associated with car mobility. This book is part of a series on transitions to sustainable development, which aims to combine. References relevant for strn the field of sustainability transition studies has expanded very fast in the last 10 years with numbers of publications growing rapidly. Environmental innovation and societal transitions vol 5. It makes a sociotechnical analysis of transport systems, exploring the strategies and beliefs of crucial actors such as car manufacturers, local and national. Exploring sustainable urban automobility transitions. Contemporary societies are faced by a new spectre haunting the globe the changing of the worlds climate. A sociotechnical analysis of sustainable transport robin hickman bartlett school of planning, university college london, london, uk correspondence r. Sustainability transitions in the automobility regime and the need for a new perspective rene kemp, frank geels and geoff dudley 2. A coevolutionary and sociotechnical analysis frank w. This text examines the past evolution towards carbased forms of transport problems associated with it, the success of past and current efforts to deal with problems of pollution, congestion.
T2 a sociotechnical analysis of sustainable transport. Box 616 6200 md maastricht the netherlands um visiting address minderbroedersberg 46 6211 lk maastricht. Automobility in transition a sociotechnical analysis of sustainable transport 1st edition. Building bridges between three analytical approaches with quite different foundational bases should lead to a more comprehensive understanding of low. The bumpy ride of electric vehicles towards regime transition.
Promising developments are happening, for example, around the development of the multilevel perspective as illustrated by the recent book edited by frank geels and his colleagues entitled automobility in transition. Private cars have become the dominant mode of passenger road transport in developed countries. A sociotechnical analysis of sustainable transport quelle. This was not believed possible by scientists until fairly recently although the theoretical idea of a greenhouse effect has been well established for a century or so. Frank geels, rene kemp, geoff dudley, glenn lyons pt. Automobility in transition is the best example thus far of the growing signs of convergence between the fields of transport and mobilities and transition studies. In strictly academic terms, the book should be praised for giving visibility to transition theories and the multilevel perspective within mobility and transport studies where these perspectives are still not sufficiently known. Routledge studies in sustainability transitions crc press. Search for library items search for lists search for contacts search for a library. The first four volume will be delivered immediately after.
Geels, rene kemp, geoff dudley and glenn lyons new york london first published 2012 by routledge 711 third avenue, new york, ny 10017 simultaneously. This may create orientation problems for phd students or new scholars entering the field. Periodizing mobilities and scales of transition varve. Pdf automobility in transition download full pdf book. Within this is an attempt to shape the direction of change complex sociotechnical systems to more sustainable patterns. Governments all over the world are involved in directly providing, regulating and funding the provision of transport infrastructure and services, but the precise role of the state and its policy structures and instruments vary over time according to the wider economic and social context in which government finds itself. Transitions are longterm processes 4050 years, which are the outcome of alignments between multiple developments.
A sociotechnical analysis of sustainable transport book cover. Results of the projects and other mobility studies are brought together in the book automobility in transition. At its core, the automobility system is the hub of numerous interdependencies and relationships between the. Assessing the transition towards battery electric vehicles. Several longstanding and deepening processes of governmental restructuring. Transition management is a governance approach that aims to facilitate and accelerate sustainability transitions through a participatory process of visioning, learning and experimenting. This contribution explores these, guided by a constructive attitude.
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