Climate policy innovation: a sociotechnical transitions perspective

• Published in: Environmental politics Vol. 23; no. 5; pp. 774 - 794
• Main Authors: Upham, Paul, Kivimaa, Paula, Mickwitz, Per, Åstrand, Kerstin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Abingdon Routledge 03.09.2014; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Adoption of Innovations; Climate; climate policy innovation; Conceptualization; Environmental policy; Finland; Innovation; Innovations; Interaction; Landscape; Multidimensional analysis; path creation; path dependence; Policy making; Political Change; Pressure; sociotechnical transitions; Sweden; Transitions; Transport; Transport policy; Transportation Policy; United Kingdom; United Kingdom > UK; Sweden; Finland; British Isles

Seeking to develop a novel understanding of how climate policy innovation (CPI) emerges and spreads, we conceptualise three types of CPIs - genuinely original, diffusion based, and reframing based - and relate these to the sociotechnical transitions literature, particularly the multi-level perspecti...