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 …

Sustainability transitions research: transforming science and practice for societal change

D Loorbach, N Frantzeskaki… - Annual review of …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
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 …

The geography of sustainability transitions: Contours of an emerging theme

B Truffer, JT Murphy, R Raven - Environmental Innovation and Societal …, 2015 - Elsevier
Transition research has recently been criticized to lack of geographically sensitive concepts
to address sustainability transitions and environmental innovation processes. This has …

Reconfigurations in sustainability transitions: a systematic and critical review

S Laakso, R Aro, E Heiskanen… - … : Science, Practice and …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Two streams of literature have become especially prominent in understanding social change
toward sustainability within the past decades: the research on socio-technical transitions …

[HTML][HTML] Importance of actors and agency in sustainability transitions: A systematic exploration of the literature

LB Fischer, J Newig - Sustainability, 2016 - mdpi.com
This article explores the role of actors and agency in the literature on sustainability
transitions. We reviewed 386 journal articles on transition management and sustainability …

Towards a thick understanding of sustainability transitions—Linking transition management, capabilities and social practices

F Rauschmayer, T Bauler, N Schäpke - Ecological economics, 2015 - Elsevier
Scientific activities which are targeted to engage and enact on societal problems–and
governance of sustainability transition itself is one such activity–are necessarily prescriptive …

Sustainability transitions in the making: A closer look at actors, strategies and resources

J Farla, J Markard, R Raven, L Coenen - Technological forecasting and …, 2012 - Elsevier
Modern societies face fundamental sustainability problems in several domains, such as
energy, transportation and food.'Technological fixes' have often provided only temporary …

A transition research perspective on governance for sustainability

D Loorbach, N Frantzeskaki, W Thissen - European research on …, 2011 - Springer
In this chapter we present the transitions approach as an integrated perspective to
understand and possibly orient our society towards sustainable development. Since the …

Places and spaces of sustainability transitions: geographical contributions to an emerging research and policy field

L Coenen, B Truffer - European Planning Studies, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
In recent years, governments across the globe have developed plans for a Green New Deal
to curb a combined economic and ecological crisis. Broad societal and industrial …

Sustainability transitions and the state

P Johnstone, P Newell - Environmental innovation and societal transitions, 2018 - Elsevier
Sustainability transitions is an emerging field of research that has produced both conceptual
understandings of the drivers of technological transitions, as well as more prescriptive and …