Abstract Sustainability Transition Experiments (STEs), leveraging a transdisciplinary research approach, have recently been proposed as a method to accelerate sustainability transitions. This paper outlines a proposed three-part evaluation framework to assess the process, societal effects, and sustainability transition impacts of STEs. The paper extracts the key insights from multiple literatures, generating a set of indicators to be used in assessing sustainability transition experiments. Particular emphasis is placed on the assessment of longer-term sustainability impacts. We propose a development pathway approach to organize elements of sustainability transition impact into a coherent framework that highlights the inter-relationships between levels of scales in systems transition and foregrounds the role of changes in governance roles and relationships and the role of politics in transitions. The paper offers insights into the challenge of evaluating the sustainability transition impacts of a transdisciplinary research project and provides an important bridge between the evaluation of processes, societal effects, and their link to sustainability transition impacts.

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衡量可持续性：可持续性转型实验的评估框架

摘要 可持续性转型实验 (STE) 利用跨学科研究方法，最近被提出作为一种加速可持续性转型的方法。本文概述了一个提议的三部分评估框架，以评估 STE 的过程、社会影响和可持续性转型影响。该论文从多篇文献中提取了关键见解，生成了一组用于评估可持续性转型实验的指标。特别强调对长期可持续性影响的评估。我们提出了一种发展路径方法，将可持续性转型影响的要素组织到一个连贯的框架中，该框架突出了系统转型中尺度水平之间的相互关系，并突出了治理角色和关系中变化的作用以及政治在转型中的作用。该论文提供了对评估跨学科研究项目的可持续性转型影响的挑战的见解，并提供了评估过程、社会影响及其与可持续性转型影响的联系之间的重要桥梁。