Technologies in Decline : Socio-Technical Approaches to Discontinuation and Destabilisation (Edition 1)

• Main Authors: Koretsky, Zahar, Stegmaier, Peter, Turnheim, Bruno, van Lente, Harro
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Taylor & Francis 2023; Routledge; Taylor and Francis; Maastricht University; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: Music and Change: Ecological Perspectives
• Subjects: Applied ecology; Business & Economics; Business & Policy; Deindustrialization; Development; Development economics and emerging economies; Ecology; Energy Policy; engineering and technology; Environmental; Environmental science; Humanities and Social Sciences; Nature; Product elimination; Product obsolescence; Sustainable Development; Technology; Technology & Engineering; Policy Dismantling; Phase-out as a policy approach to address sustainability challenges; Coal Fired Power Generation; Diesel Technology; Vice Versa; Mapping the territorial adaptation of technological trajectories; Leaded Gasoline; The role of alternative technologies in the enactment of (dis)continuities; Caring for decline; Internal Combustion Engine Vehicles; Discourses around decline; The end of the world's leaded petrol era; Regional Innovation System Frameworks; Biocontrol Technologies; Coal Fired Power; Coal Fired; UK Discourse; Global Governance Instrument; Tacita Dean; Conclusions and continuations; Science Policy Interface; Address Sustainability Challenges; Socio-technical Regime; Electric Vehicles; Complex Governance Setting; Continual Performance; Conceptual explorations; Patent Citation Network; Knowledge Search Process; Technological Innovation System Approach; Cloud Seeding; Empirical explorations; Hybrid Powertrain; Governance explorations; Introduction; Dynamics of technological decline as socio-material unravelling; Tis Framework; Destabilisation, decline and phase-out in transitions research; Conceptual aspects of discontinuation governance; Decline; Phase-out; Destabilisation; Desicontinuation
• ISBN: 1000831418; 9781000831412; 1032101024; 9781032101026; 9781032100982; 1032100982; 1003213642; 9781003213642
• DOI: 10.4324/9781003213642

The central questions of this book are how technologies decline, how societies deal with technologies in decline, and how governance may be explicitly oriented towards parting with ‘undesirable’ technology. Surprisingly, these questions are fairly novel. Thus far, the dominant interest in historical, economic, sociological and political studies of technology has been to understand how novelty emerges, how innovation can open up new opportunities and how such processes may be supported. This innovation bias reflects how in the last centuries modern societies have embraced technology as a vehicle of progress. It is timely, however, to broaden the social study of technology and society: next to considering the rise of technologies, their fall should be addressed, too. Dealing with technologies in decline is an important challenge or our times, as socio-technical systems are increasingly part of the problems of climate change, biodiversity loss, social inequalities and geo-political tensions. This volume presents empirical studies of technologies in decline, as well as conceptual clarifications and theoretical deepening. Technologies in Decline presents an emerging research agenda for the study of technological decline, emphasising the need for a plurality of perspectives. Given that destabilisation and discontinuation are seen as a way to accelerate sustainability transitions, this book will be of interest to academics, students and policy makers researching and working in the areas of sustainability science and policy, economic geography, innovation studies, and science and technology studies.