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DOI	10.1038/s41562-021-01257-8
	Equity, technological innovation and sustainable behaviour in a low-carbon future
	Sovacool, Benjamin K.; Newell, Peter; Carley, Sanya; Fanzo, Jessica
发表日期	2022
ISSN	2397-3374
起始页码	326
结束页码	337
卷号	6 期号:3
英文摘要	The world must ambitiously curtail greenhouse gas emissions to achieve climate stability. The literature often supposes that a low-carbon future will depend on a mix of technological innovation-improving the performance of new technologies and systems-as well as more sustainable behaviours such as travelling less or reducing waste. To what extent are low-carbon technologies, and their associated behaviours, currently equitable, and what are potential policy and research implications moving forward? In this Review, we examine how four innovations in technology and behaviour-improved cookstoves and heating, battery electric vehicles, household solar panels and food-sharing-create complications and force trade-offs on different equity dimensions. We draw from these cases to discuss a typology of inequity cutting across demographic (for example, gender, race and class), spatial (for example, urban and rural divides), interspecies (for example, human and non-human) and temporal (for example, future generations) vulnerabilities. Ultimately, the risk of inequity abounds in decarbonization pathways. Moreover, low-carbon innovations are not automatically just, equitable or even green. We show how such technologies and behaviours can both introduce new inequalities and reaffirm existing ones. We then discuss potential policy insights and leverage points to make future interventions more equitable and propose an integrated research agenda to supplement these policy efforts. Low-carbon innovations in technology and behaviour are increasingly prevalent, but they are not always equitable. This Review examines how such innovations can introduce and perpetrate inequalities, and discusses ways to ensure that a low-carbon future is both sustainable and equitable.
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Psychology, Biological ; Multidisciplinary Sciences ; Neurosciences ; Psychology, Experimental
WOS类目	Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED) ; Social Science Citation Index (SSCI)
WOS记录号	WOS:000750337000013
来源期刊	NATURE HUMAN BEHAVIOUR
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/280815
作者单位	University of Sussex; University of Sussex; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; Johns Hopkins University
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Sovacool, Benjamin K.,Newell, Peter,Carley, Sanya,et al. Equity, technological innovation and sustainable behaviour in a low-carbon future[J],2022,6(3).
APA	Sovacool, Benjamin K.,Newell, Peter,Carley, Sanya,&Fanzo, Jessica.(2022).Equity, technological innovation and sustainable behaviour in a low-carbon future.NATURE HUMAN BEHAVIOUR,6(3).
MLA	Sovacool, Benjamin K.,et al."Equity, technological innovation and sustainable behaviour in a low-carbon future".NATURE HUMAN BEHAVIOUR 6.3(2022).