Utopia competition: a new approach to the micro-foundations of sustainability transitions

被引：13

作者：

Almudi I. ^{[1
,2
]}

Fatas-Villafranca F. ^{[1
]}

Potts J. ^{[2
,3
]}

机构：

[1] Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza

[2] RMIT University, Melbourne

[3] School of Economics, Finance and Marketing, RMIT University, Melbourne

来源：

Journal of Bioeconomics | 2017年 / 19卷 / 1期

基金：

澳大利亚研究理事会;

关键词：

Citizens; Climate change; Co-evolution; Evolutionary political economy; Idea competition; Sustainability transitions; Utopia;

D O I：

10.1007/s10818-016-9239-2

中图分类号：

学科分类号：

摘要：

We present a new evolutionary political economy approach to the study of transition dynamics based on a co-evolutionary model of differential citizen contributions to competing ‘utopias’—market fundamentalism, socialism, and environmentalism. We model sustainability transitions as an outcome of ‘utopia competition’ in which environmentalism manages to coexist with the market, while socialism vanishes. Our simulation-based framework suggests that the individual economic contributions of citizens to the battle of ideas—both the distribution within a utopia, and the interaction between different utopias—are crucial but much overlooked micro-factors in explaining the dynamics of sustainability transitions. © 2016, Springer Science+Business Media New York.

引用

页码：165 / 185

页数：20

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