There is an urgent need for radical transformations of unsustainable socio-technical systems, such as food, mobility, and housing. These transformations will not take place without new policies and research. In order to achieve these transitions, learning must be a central feature based on thorough evaluations of the actions taken. Evaluations have been conducted and studied for decades, but traditional evaluation approaches have largely been developed to produce knowledge for incremental changes, not for radical transformations. This article develops a framework for interdisciplinary evaluations targeting transformative changes toward a more sustainable society. The framework combines evaluation theory and practice with transition theory, sociology of science, policy analyses, and environmental psychology. While the primary purpose of the framework is to help design evaluations that would better enhance learning for transitions, it can also be used for systematic meta-evaluations of past evaluations.

迫切需要对不可持续的社会技术系统（如食物，交通和住房）进行根本性的转变。没有新的政策和研究，就不会发生这些转变。为了实现这些过渡，学习必须是基于对所采取行动的全面评估的中心特征。评估已经进行和研究了数十年，但是传统的评估方法已经得到很大发展，以产生有关增量变化的知识，而不是进行根本性的转变。本文为跨学科评估开发了一个框架，该框架旨在将变革转变为朝着更可持续的社会发展。该框架将评估理论和实践与过渡理论，科学社会学，政策分析和环境心理学相结合。