Sustainability transitions in the developing world: Challenges of socio-technical transformations unfolding in contexts of poverty
By M. Ramos‐Mejía, M. Franco-García, Juan Jauregui-Becker. Environmental Science and Policy, 2017
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The transitions to sustainability approach has proved to be useful for academics, policy makers and practitioners to understand and promote socio-technical transformations, often aiming at climate change alternatives in European countries. However, little attention has been paid to the limitations of using frameworks such as the Multi-level perspective and the Strategic Niche Management approach in the developing world. Here, countries exhibit a mixture of well- and ill-functioning institutions, in a context of market imperfection, clientelist and social exclusive communities, patriarchal households and patrimonial and/or marketised states. In order to explore such limitations, we have used an institutional framework documented in the development studies literature, which describes three types of institutional settings: ‘welfare’, ‘informal security’ and ‘insecurity’. This institutional analysis shows that (1) the context for innovation in developing countries is a loose scenario where the concepts of ‘pockets’ or ‘layers’ can be useful; (2) the characteristics of the institutional setting shape in several ways the quality of the niche structuration processes that create and unfold. Our rationale and illustrations call for bringing the poverty alleviation agenda into sustainability transitions studies in developing countries. We propose areas of further reflection attempting to inspire future research pathways.
Subfields: Business and International Management, Global and Planetary Change, Management of Technology and Innovation
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- Sustainability transitions in developing countries: Stocktaking, new contributions and a research agenda (2017, background): “…for example a weaker state apparatus, less efficient bureaucracies, higher levels of political and economic instability, less transparency in legal proceedings and enforcement of legal frameworks and relatively high levels of economic and social inequality (Lachman, 2012; Ramos-Mejía, 2018).”