1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910585957103321

Autore

Geels Frank W. <1971->

Titolo

The great reconfiguration : a socio-technical analysis of low-carbon transition in UK electricity, heat, and mobility systems / / Frank W. Geels, Bruno Turnheim [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge University Press, 2022

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2022

ISBN

1-009-19831-9

1-009-19832-7

1-009-19823-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 375 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Physical Sciences

Disciplina

333.70941

Soggetti

Energy policy - Great Britain

Carbon dioxide mitigation - Great Britain

Technological innovations - Great Britain

Environmental protection - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Open Access.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Apr 2022).

Sommario/riassunto

This book is intended for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners interested in the dynamics and governance of low-carbon transitions. Drawing on the Multi-Level Perspective, it develops a whole system reconfiguration approach that explains how the incorporation of multiple innovations can cumulatively reconfigure existing systems. The book focuses on UK electricity, heat, and mobility systems, and it systematically analyses interactions between radical niche-innovations and existing (sub)systems across techno-economic, policy, and actor dimensions in the past three decades. Comparative analysis explains why the unfolding low-carbon transitions in these three systems vary in speed, scope, and depth. It evaluates to what degree these transitions qualify as Great Reconfigurations and assesses the future potential for, and barriers to, deeper low-carbon system transitions. Generalising



across these systems, broader lessons are developed about the roles of incumbent firms, governance and politics, user engagement, wider public, and civil society organisations. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910809609203321

Autore

Stiglitz Joseph E.

Titolo

Creating a learning society : a new approach to growth, development, and social progress / / Joseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce C. Greenwald

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Columbia University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-231-54062-0

Edizione

[Reader's edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (427 p.)

Collana

Kenneth J. Arrow Lecture Series

Disciplina

303.3/2  |2 23

Soggetti

Social learning

Information society

Progress

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Preface to the Reader's Edition -- Preface to the Original Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part one. Creating a Learning Society -- Chapter one. The Learning Revolution -- Chapter two. On the Importance of Learning -- Chapter three. A Learning Economy -- Chapter four. Creating a Learning Firm and a Learning Environment -- Chapter five. Market Structure, Welfare, and Learning -- Chapter six. The Welfare Economics of Schumpeterian Competition -- Chapter seven. Learning in a Closed Economy -- Chapter eight. The Infant-Economy Argument for Protection: Trade Policy in a Learning Environment -- Part two. Policies for a Learning Society -- Chapter nine. The Role of Industrial and Trade Policy in Creating a Learning Society -- Chapter ten. Financial Policy and Creating a Learning Society -- Chapter eleven. Macroeconomic and Investment Policies for a Learning Society -- Chapter twelve. Intellectual Property -- Chapter thirteen. Social Transformation and the



Creation of a Learning Society -- Chapter fourteen. Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Since its publication Creating a Learning Society has served as an effective tool for those who advocate government policies to advance science and technology. It shows persuasively how enormous increases in our standard of living have been the result of learning how to learn, and it explains how advanced and developing countries alike can model a new learning economy on this example. Creating a Learning Society: Reader's Edition uses accessible language to focus on the work's central message and policy prescriptions. As the book makes clear, creating a learning society requires good governmental policy in trade, industry, intellectual property, and other important areas. The text's central thesis-that every policy affects learning-is critical for governments unaware of the innovative ways they can propel their economies forward.