Experimenting For Sustainable Transport: The Approach Of Strategic Niche Management (transport, Development And Sustainability Series)
by Remco Hoogma /
2002 / English / PDF
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Technological change is a central feature of modern societies and a
powerful source for social change. There is an urgent task to
direct these new technologies towards sustainability, but society
lacks perspectives, instruments and policies to accomplish this.
There is no blueprint for a sustainable future, and it is necessary
to experiment with alternative paths that seem promising. Various
new transport technologies promise to bring sustainability
benefits. But as this book shows, important lessons are often
overlooked because the experiments are not designed to challenge
the basic assumptions about established patterns of transport
choices. Learning how to organise the process of innovation
implementation is essential if the maximum impact is to be achieved
- it is here that strategic niche management offers new
perspectives. The book uses a series of eight recent experiments
with electric vehicles, carsharing schemes, bicycle pools and fleet
management to illustrate the means by which technological change
must be closely linked to social change if successful
implementation is to take place. The basic divide between
proponents of technological fixes and those in favour of
behavioural change needs to be bridged, perhaps indicating a third
way.
Technological change is a central feature of modern societies and a
powerful source for social change. There is an urgent task to
direct these new technologies towards sustainability, but society
lacks perspectives, instruments and policies to accomplish this.
There is no blueprint for a sustainable future, and it is necessary
to experiment with alternative paths that seem promising. Various
new transport technologies promise to bring sustainability
benefits. But as this book shows, important lessons are often
overlooked because the experiments are not designed to challenge
the basic assumptions about established patterns of transport
choices. Learning how to organise the process of innovation
implementation is essential if the maximum impact is to be achieved
- it is here that strategic niche management offers new
perspectives. The book uses a series of eight recent experiments
with electric vehicles, carsharing schemes, bicycle pools and fleet
management to illustrate the means by which technological change
must be closely linked to social change if successful
implementation is to take place. The basic divide between
proponents of technological fixes and those in favour of
behavioural change needs to be bridged, perhaps indicating a third
way.