Socio-technical transitions to sustainability: a review of criticisms and elaborations of the Multi-Level Perspective

FW Geels - Current opinion in environmental sustainability, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•Socio-technical transitions research is a distinctive approach within the
sustainability transformations debate.•Socio-technical transitions involve multi-dimensional …

[HTML][HTML] Advancing local energy transitions: A global review of government instruments supporting community energy

R Leonhardt, B Noble, G Poelzer, P Fitzpatrick… - Energy Research & …, 2022 - Elsevier
The adoption and encouragement of community energy, that is, the incentive to develop
renewable energy projects with community participation and ownership, is a key ingredient …

Micro-foundations of the multi-level perspective on socio-technical transitions: Developing a multi-dimensional model of agency through crossovers between social …

FW Geels - Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Multi-Level Perspective (MLP) is a prominent framework to understand socio-
technical transitions, but its micro-foundations have remained under-developed. The paper's …

An agenda for sustainability transitions research: State of the art and future directions

J Köhler, FW Geels, F Kern, J Markard… - … innovation and societal …, 2019 - Elsevier
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Towards a typology of intermediaries in sustainability transitions: A systematic review and a research agenda

P Kivimaa, W Boon, S Hyysalo, L Klerkx - Research Policy, 2019 - Elsevier
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Integrating techno-economic, socio-technical and political perspectives on national energy transitions: A meta-theoretical framework

A Cherp, V Vinichenko, J Jewell, E Brutschin… - Energy Research & …, 2018 - Elsevier
Economic development, technological innovation, and policy change are especially
prominent factors shaping energy transitions. Therefore explaining energy transitions …

The socio-technical dynamics of low-carbon transitions

FW Geels, BK Sovacool, T Schwanen, S Sorrell - Joule, 2017 - cell.com
Effective mitigation of climate change will require far-reaching transformations of electricity,
heat, agricultural, transport, and other systems. The energy studies and modeling research …

What drives electric vehicle adoption? Insights from a systematic review on European transport actors and behaviours

C Corradi, E Sica, P Morone - Energy Research & Social Science, 2023 - Elsevier
A sustainable transition towards a net zero emission economy is a primary goal of climate
change mitigation. Such a transition should involve each socio-technical system, including …

Three decades of EU climate policy: Racing toward climate neutrality?

C Dupont, B Moore, EL Boasson… - Wiley …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The European Union (EU) began developing climate policy in the 1990s. Since
then, it has built up a broad portfolio of mitigation policy measures and governance tools …

The politics of accelerating low-carbon transitions: Towards a new research agenda

C Roberts, FW Geels, M Lockwood, P Newell… - Energy research & …, 2018 - Elsevier
Meeting the climate change targets in the Paris Agreement implies a substantial and rapid
acceleration of low-carbon transitions. Combining insights from political science, policy …