As sustainability challenges and the transformative changes they necessitate stretch well
beyond the boundaries of individual socio-technical systems, there is a pressing need to …

The central challenge of our age is how to make development sustainable—to assure that it
advances people's well-being in the here and now without unfairly constraining the ability of …

The concept of sustainability has come to permeate many spheres of governance, decision‐
making and scientific inquiry. Although current academic conceptualizations of sustainability …

Dynamism, uncertainty and complexity dominate today's world. Yet many policy
interventions ignore this, and so often fail. What is missing is a rigorous and systematic …

This paper discusses contextual issues in sociotechnical systems and transitions under the
Multi Level Perspective (MLP). It emphasises inter system interactions, for which a typology …

Technology contributes both positively and negatively to the resilience of 'social-ecological
systems', but is not considered in depth in that literature. A technology-focused literature on …

The article describes the field of sustainability transitions research, which emerged in the
past two decades in the context of a growing scientific and public interest in large-scale …

Sustainability transitions aim to comprehensively address key challenges of today's
societies through harmonizing ecological integrity and social viability. During the last …

Recent literature has turned considerable attention to the role of policy mixes in shaping
socio-technical systems towards sustainability. However, the identification of relevant policy …

Social-ecological systems (SES) research offers new theory and evidence to transform
sustainable development to better contend with the challenges of the Anthropocene. Four …