Journal
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
Volume 50, Issue -, Pages 32-39Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2012.12.009
Keywords
Lock-in; Infrastructure; Waste management; Incineration; Urban governance; Sweden
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- Goteborg University
- Organizing Critical Infrastructure Services - A Case Study of Waste Management
- Vinnova
- Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems
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This article explains how infrastructures with a sustainability record may evolve over time into a lock-in that slows the emergence of more sustainable urban infrastructures. A study of waste incineration in the Goteborg Metropolitan Area, Sweden, serves as an illustrative case. Taking leads from Unruh (2000, 2002), four rationales of lock-in are identified in the case: institutional, technical, cultural, and material. The article describes how these rationales, one by one and in collaboration, lock-in waste handling in the Goteborg Metropolitan Area to incineration. The article also suggests that these four rationales could serve as a program to unlock urban infrastructures. Asking the question Are we in a lock-in? is featured as a practical starting point for planning changes in urban infrastructure governance that contribute to sustainability. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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