Food system innovations will be instrumental to achieving multiple Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs). However, major innovation breakthroughs can trigger profound …

Public engagement is understood as a prerequisite for sustainability transitions. Yet, it has
remained peripheral to the transitions research agenda and the efforts to engage citizens in …

Co-production, the collaborative weaving of research and practice by diverse societal actors,
is argued to play an important role in sustainability transformations. Yet, there is still poor …

The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods for Social-Ecological Systems provides a
synthetic guide to the range of methods that can be employed in social-ecological systems …

Sustainability transition research seeks to understand the patterns and dynamics of
structural societal change as well as unearth strategies for governance. However, existing …

Mission-oriented agricultural innovation systems (MAIS) are becoming more prevalent in
view of tackling the challenges of agri-food systems transformation. In this perspective, we …

Since antiquity, philosophers in the Western tradition of virtue ethics have declared practical
wisdom to be the central virtue of citizens involved in public and social life. Practical wisdom …

This article enriches the existing literature on the importance and role of the social sciences
and humanities (SSH) in renewable energy sources research by providing a novel approach …

Anthropogenic activity is changing Earth's climate and ecosystems in ways that are
potentially dangerous and disruptive to humans. Greenhouse gas concentrations in the …

The concept of leverage points offers great potential to consider how we can intervene in
systems to create transformations for sustainability. In this special issue, we draw together a …