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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.02.013
	Actors working the institutions in sustainability transitions: The case of Melbourne's stormwater management
	Brown R.R.; Farrelly M.A.; Loorbach D.A.
发表日期	2013
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	23 期号:4
英文摘要	The role of agency in overcoming path dependence and enabling sustainability transitions is receiving increasing attention. Currently lacking are more empirically derived explanations of the co-evolutionary dynamics between actors and institutional change that could potentially provide guidance on facilitating such transitions into the future. This paper investigates these dynamics through a longitudinal case analysis of Melbourne's transition to improved stormwater quality treatment. The complex data collection, analysis and validation approach, which included oral histories, semi-structured interviews, industry workshops and documentary analysis, examined the nuances of the actor-related strategies and institutional enabling processes throughout the different phases of the transition over the last fifty years. The results revealed the importance of a small group of loosely connected frontrunners from across government, private, community and scientific sectors who, through a mix of creating and disrupting institutional strategies, managed to facilitate a growing and diverse actor-network that steered this transition over decades. The establishment of networked bridging organisations was also instrumental because they formed different types of networks and alliances over time for protecting and deepening the reach of the transition dynamics across the city. The findings suggest there is no single cause-effect relationship nor one dominant intervention or action that shifted the urban stormwater management regime. Rather, it showed that the co-evolutionary processes between the broader transitional dynamics were played into by frontrunners and their actor-networks in such a way that emerging new narratives diffused, giving meaning to the evolving scientific agendas and on-the-ground experiments, which led to new institutional structures and enabling administrative tools. It seems as though each one of these dimensions is as crucial as the other in explaining the outcomes of this successful sustainability transition. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.
英文关键词	Actors; Bridging organisations; Institutions; Sustainability transitions; Transition management; Urban stormwater management
学科领域	empirical analysis; state role; stormwater; sustainability; urban area; water management; water quality; Australia; Melbourne; Victoria [Australia]
语种	英语
scopus关键词	empirical analysis; state role; stormwater; sustainability; urban area; water management; water quality; Australia; Melbourne; Victoria [Australia]
来源期刊	Global Environmental Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/117940
作者单位	Monash Water for Liveability, Monash University, 3800, Australia; School of Geography and Environmental Science, Monash University, 3800, Australia; Dutch Research Institute for Transitions, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Postbus 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, Netherlands
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Brown R.R.,Farrelly M.A.,Loorbach D.A.. Actors working the institutions in sustainability transitions: The case of Melbourne's stormwater management[J],2013,23(4).
APA	Brown R.R.,Farrelly M.A.,&Loorbach D.A..(2013).Actors working the institutions in sustainability transitions: The case of Melbourne's stormwater management.Global Environmental Change,23(4).
MLA	Brown R.R.,et al."Actors working the institutions in sustainability transitions: The case of Melbourne's stormwater management".Global Environmental Change 23.4(2013).