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To See, or Not to See, That Is the Question: Studying Dutch Experimentalist Energy Transition Governance through an Evolutionary Lens
- Source :
- Sustainability; Volume 14; Issue 3; Pages: 1540, Sustainability, Vol 14, Iss 1540, p 1540 (2022), Sustainability, 14, 3, Sustainability, 14
- Publication Year :
- 2022
- Publisher :
- Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2022.
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Abstract
- Experimentalist forms of governance have burgeoned across policy areas and institutional contexts in recent years. Recognizing that experimentalist forms of governance can evolve along a plethora of distinct pathways, this paper inquires how the evolutionary nature of experimentalism can be explored in greater depth. Linking the framework of experimentalist governance to that of Evolutionary Governance Theory (EGT), the paper identifies three driving mechanisms of contingency in experimentalism: governance being (1) self-referential, (2) rooted in observation, and (3) steered by dependencies. The paper then refers to recent efforts in the realm of energy transition governance in the Netherlands to illustrate how these contingency mechanisms can help to interrogate the variegated evolutionary pathways that experimentalist governance may have in practice. Building on this Dutch empirical context, the paper puts forward evolutionary path- and context-mapping as a fruitful tool for identifying and disentangling the myriad of pathways along which experimentalism may manifest itself.
- Subjects :
- evolutionary governance
Environmental effects of industries and plants
experimentalist governance
contingency
evolutionary pathways
path- and context-mapping
regional energy transition
The Netherlands
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Geography, Planning and Development
TJ807-830
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
TD194-195
Renewable energy sources
Environmental sciences
GE1-350
Institute for Management Research
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20711050
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Sustainability; Volume 14; Issue 3; Pages: 1540
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....73be4da949ef1dd6c6085da5c5b6d382
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/su14031540