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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bögel, Paula Maria
• Augenstein, Karoline
• Levin-Keitel, Meike
• Upham, Paul

Titel

An interdisciplinary perspective on scaling in transitions: Connecting actors and space

Ist Teil von

• Environmental innovation and societal transitions, 2022-03, Vol.42, p.170-183

Ort / Verlag

Elsevier B.V

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• •Scaling as under-problematised in the transitions literature.•We present a socio-spatial framework on scaling.•Suitable for understanding the role of relational space & agency in scaling.•Upscaling defined as the emergence of new ways of doing, thinking & organizing.•Uses a real-world lab case-study for illustration in the context of urban transitions. The question of how sustainable innovations and how niche experimentation lead to systemic changes are a core motivation of sustainability transitions research. As an inherently interdisciplinary field, although this question is addressed from different academic perspectives, the dominant understanding of relevant scaling processes is grounded in concepts of growth, diffusion and expansion. This article contributes to the discussion of more nuanced understandings of scaling, acknowledging the value of ontological levels for analytic purposes, but also drawing on knowledge from socio-psychological and spatial perspectives. Alternative understandings of spatial and agency-related scaling approaches are discussed and compared. An integrative socio-spatial framework is developed, providing a mid-range framework capable of supporting analysis of transitions that connects different disciplinary perspectives within a level-based ontology. We use an illustrative case study and derive implications for how this can inform questions of scaling and particularly spatial upscaling of new ways of doing, thinking & organizing