Abstract The advantages of Energy Communities (ECs) range from giving energy end-
consumers an active role in the energy market to the increase of renewable energy sources …

Because of the urgency of accelerating transitions, we examine the emerging understanding
of the concept of 'disruption'in the context of sustainability transition studies to critically …

This perspective paper explores the rising impacts of the COVID-19 and the Russia–Ukraine
war from different perspectives, with an emphasis on the role of climate financing in …

The COVID‐19 pandemic has led to a sharp increase in online trade. This article examines
the impact of the pandemic on online grocery retail in Germany. Here we follow and refine …

Smart city transitions are a fast-proliferating example of urban innovation processes, and
generating the insight required to support their unfolding should be a key priority for …

Research on sustainability transitions has expanded rapidly in the last ten years, diversified
in terms of topics and geographical applications, and deepened with respect to theories and …

Intermediary actors have been proposed as key catalysts that speed up change towards
more sustainable socio-technical systems. Research on this topic has gradually gained …

Relatedness as driver of regional diversification: a research agenda. Regional Studies. The
regional diversification literature claims that regions diversify in new activities related to their …

The notion of 'transformations towards sustainability'takes an increasingly central position in
global sustainability research and policy discourse in recent years. Governance and politics …

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 …