Entrapment in large technology systems: institutional commitment and power relations

By W. Walker. 2000

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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Socio-Technological Regimes and Transition Contexts (2004, background): “Finally, Walker (2000) stresses the importance of embedded institutional, political and economic commitments to a particular technological regime identified with a long-term need (maintaining nuclear fuel cycle capabilities in this case).”
The dynamics of sustainable innovation journeys (2008, background): “(3) Existing technologies and sociotechnical systems are stabilised by lock-in mechanisms (Walker 2000; Unruh 2000).”
Revisiting carbon lock-in in energy systems: Explaining the perpetuation of coal power in Japan (2020, background): “• Sandén and Hillman [41] • Geels [23,25] • Walker [56] • Unruh [18] • Seto, Davis et al. [17] Informal institutions (cognitive frames, norms, narratives and expectations) Informal (and often non-codified and implicit) rules, cognitive schemes, routines, values and norms affecting the way actors vie”
Transforming the Energy Sector : The evolution of technological systems in renewable energy technology (2004, background): “See also Unruh (2000) for an extensive review of mechanisms locking us into a carbon economy and Walker (2000) for a case study on entrapment in a large technological system.”
The (non-)politics of managing low carbon socio-technical transitions (2009, background): “Furthermore, given the large-scale, long-lived infrastructure and intense political commitments attending nuclear power, TM would caution against expanding its use because of concerns over technological ‘lock-in’ (Unruh 2002 ) and institutional ‘entrapment’ (Walker 2000 ).”
The dynamics of transitions in socio-technical systems: A multi-level analysis of the transition pathway from horse-drawn carriages to automobiles (1860–1930) (2005, background): “Established systems may be stabilized by legally binding contracts.(9) Cognitive routines make engineers and designers look in particular directions and not in others.”
Niche accumulation and hybridisation strategies in transition processes towards a sustainable energy system: An assessment of differences and pitfalls (2007, background): “infrastructure give certain ‘hardness’ to a system, which often represent large vested interests of incumbent actors (Walker, 2000).”
Transformations of Large Technical Systems (2007, background): “Legally binding contracts, technical standards, or rules for government subsidies may favor existing technologies (Walker 2000).”
Conceptual and empirical advances in analysing policy mixes for energy transitions (2017, background): “Also Walker [13] has shown that organisational commitments and vested interests in the continuation of systems, even”
The hygienic transition from cesspools to sewer systems (1840-1930): the dynamics of regime transformation (2006, background): “Regulative dimensions may stabilise the regime through legally binding contracts, standards, or government subsidies that favour existing technologies ( Walker, 2000 ).”
Diffusion of low-carbon technologies and the feasibility of long-term climate targets (2015, background): “Likewise, Walker (2000) observed that technology lock-in effects got reinforced in the case of the Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant in the U.K. because the close nexus between industrial and political actors prevented markets and democratic processes from operating effectively.”