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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP150104695
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Facilitating the decline of unsustainable urban infrastructure. Two kinds of process bring sustainable socio-technical practices into the mainstream: those supporting adoption of alternatives (much studied already), and those facilitating decline of superseded practices (seriously neglected so far). Exposing that second and less visible side of the coin, this research aims to develop a more holistic and balanced theory than current advocacy-based accounts of urban infrastructure change, and insights into the 'interface' between discarding the old and adopting the new. To complement theory, it aims to offer the first empirical study of processes that weaken old paradigms. Outcomes are expected to include a new research agenda and a practitioner toolkit for addressing institutional barriers to sustainability transitions.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 09-2015
End Date: 09-2020
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $225,800.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Sociology | Environmental Sociology | Environmental Management | Sociology and Social Studies of Science and Technology |
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Institutional Arrangements for Environmental Protection | Urban Land Policy
