The domain of transition studies has been drawing more and more scholarly attention and,
as a result, its body of knowledge is rapidly growing. This raises new challenges as well as …

The purpose of this synthesis paper is to present the motivations and conceptual basis for
research on socio-technical-ecological systems (STES), addressing the need for …

The integration of sustainability in the circular economy is an emerging paradigm that can
offer a long term vision to achieve environmental and social sustainability targets in line with …

Societal transformations are necessary to address critical global challenges, such as
mitigation of anthropogenic climate change and reaching UN sustainable development …

It is widely accepted that the achievement of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
depends on effective governance arrangements. However, it is less clear which modes and …

Implementing circular economy (CE) requires complex and dynamic changes in technical
and behavioural aspects. Few studies spend efforts to understand the organizational …

Scholars and policy makers are becoming increasingly interested in the processes that lead
to transformations toward sustainability. We explored how resilience thinking, and a stronger …

In sustainability science, the tension between more descriptive–analytical and more process-
oriented approaches is receiving increasing attention. The latter entails a number of roles for …

This article introduces transition management as a new governance approach for
sustainable development. Sustainable development is used here as a common notion …

Technology-focused literature on socio-technical transitions shares some of the complex
systems sensibilities of social-ecological systems research. We contend that the sharing of …