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Seyfang, Gill 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4696-0798 and Gilbert-Squires, Amber
(2019)
Move your money? Sustainability transitions in regimes and practices in the UK retail banking sector.
Ecological Economics, 156.
pp. 224-235.
ISSN 0921-8009
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Abstract
We present and test a new conceptual framework for understanding sustainable transitions in co-evolutionary sociotechnical systems. We apply this in the first study of sustainable transitions in UK retail banking. This system has suffered recently from banking crises, and links to environmentally-sensitive industries such as fossil fuels. Sustainability-focused values-based banks are a potential solution, but have had little impact on mainstream banking systems. We aim to understand the constraints on a potential transition and how to overcome them. Our new approach identifies the intersections between transitions in regimes (using the multi-level perspective MLP) and transitions in practices (using social practice theory SPT), two competing conceptual frameworks in the literature. We ask: what are the intersections between transitions in the banking regime and banking practices, and how may critical points of constraint be unlocked to become points of opportunity, thereby aiding a transition to more sustainable banking systems? We present new empirical findings from a mixed-method case study of the UK banking sector and two values-based banks in particular. Interventions for growing sustainable banking are identified and we demonstrate the added-value of the combined approach through indicating strategies for unlocking the transformative potential of sustainable innovations.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | sociotechnical transitions,sustainable banking,ethical banking,social practices,innovation niches,multi-level perspective,niche-building,values-based banking |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE) Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Science, Society and Sustainability Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Environmental Social Sciences |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Sep 2018 11:31 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Dec 2023 02:20 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/68304 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.09.014 |
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