Print Email Facebook Twitter The producer society and the transition towards a biobased society: Institutional innovation for a sustainable future Title The producer society and the transition towards a biobased society: Institutional innovation for a sustainable future Author Pesch, U. Sleenhoff, S. Van der Veen, M. Faculty Technology, Policy and Management Date 2010-10-28 Abstract The biobased economy is a concept proposed by policymakers to accommodate the transition towards a sustainable society. This concept however is not familiar outside of policymaking and some academic circles, while a socio-technical transition supposes the shared commitment of the whole society. The need for this commitments becomes even bigger as society develops into a network society, which becomes increasingly irresponsive to one-sided governmental command.The paper contends that this dual problem should be overcome, the concept of a producer's society is introduced as a policymaker's perspective that allows the resolution of the need for having wide societal commitment to the transition towards a biobased economy and the need to make have a government that can address the network society in an effective manner. The concept of the producer's society entails that government should see citizens as the producers of their own environment, instead of either inactive policy consumers or active deliberative citoyens. Subject biobased economyproducer's societynetwork societyparticipatory decision-making To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:59919b55-e373-4815-ba76-0c94fcb2815d ISBN 9789051550658 Source Knowledge Collaboration & Learning for Sustainable Innovation: ERSCP-EMSU Conference, 25-29 October 2010, Delft, The Netherlands Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2010 The Authors(s) Files PDF 066_Pesch.pdf 112.8 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:59919b55-e373-4815-ba76-0c94fcb2815d/datastream/OBJ/view