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Beyond the North-South divide: The political economy and multi-level governance of international low-carbon technology transfer in China Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 9.377) Pub Date : 2022-07-15 Minsi Liu, Kevin Lo, Linda Westman, Ping Huang
The rapid rise of emerging economies challenges the conventional understanding of international low-carbon technology transfer (ILTT) from a North-South perspective. Rather than acting like passive recipients of foreign investment and technology, actors in emerging economies have become more assertive, seeking control over the processes of ILTT. To understand this emerging trend, this paper conceptualizes
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Contouring ‘earth-space sustainability’ Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 9.377) Pub Date : 2022-07-09 Xiao-Shan Yap, Bernhard Truffer
There have been increasing calls in transition research for a global view of sustainability challenges. We argue that this focus should be expanded from a concentration on the Earth's surface and stratosphere to include outer space. The substantial growth of the space sector over the past decade has seen huge increases in the number of rocket launches, the diversity of actors, and the availability
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Practices in transitions: Review, reflections, and research directions for a Practice Innovation System PIS approach Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 9.377) Pub Date : 2022-07-02 Elisabeth M.C. Svennevik
Social Practice Theories (SPT) can contribute to transition studies by deepening our understanding of the key social mechanisms and dynamics underpinning transitions in everyday life and the role of agency and collective action in processes of social change. Several studies have applied SPTs with concepts from transition studies, and these connections merit attention. The review presented here shows
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The spatial dynamics of deep transitions Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 9.377) Pub Date : 2022-06-26 Laur Kanger
Industrial societies are currently evolving along a fundamentally unsustainable trajectory, contributing to climate change, resource depletion and loss of biodiversity. A recent Deep Transitions framework (Schot and Kanger, 2018; Kanger and Schot, 2019) argues that this trajectory has been built up through the First Deep Transition: a 250-year co-evolution of multiple socio-technical systems. However
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Exploring the possibilities for deliberately cultivating more effective ecologies of intermediation Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 9.377) Pub Date : 2022-06-24 Miguel Soberón, Teresa Sánchez-Chaparro, Adrian Smith, Jaime Moreno-Serna, Valentina Oquendo-Di Cosola, Carlos Mataix
Sustainability transition studies acknowledge the importance of ecologies of intermediation for the acceleration of sustainability transitions and their governance. Although some pioneering studies have already focused on analyzing these ecologies, further research is needed to understand the challenges of deliberately establishing ecologies in terms of processes and activities. To advance in this
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Diversifying deep transitions: Accounting for socio-economic directionality Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 9.377) Pub Date : 2022-06-21 René Kemp, Bonno Pel, Christian Scholl, Frank Boons
The paper sets out to enrich the emerging debate on ‘deep’, transversal transitions. It does so by drawing attention to socio-economic developments neglected in the Deep Transition (DT) framework of Kanger and Schot, such as marketization, labour contracts becoming more individual and precarious, and changing human beliefs, aspirations, needs and wants as important developments. The framework of Deep
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Regional capacity to govern the energy transition: The case of two Dutch energy regions Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 9.377) Pub Date : 2022-06-14 Jasper van Dijk, Anna J. Wieczorek, Andreas Ligtvoet
In this paper we analyse how interactions between governing bodies influence Dutch energy regions’ capacity to govern the energy transition. We develop an analytical framework which draws on, and merges, two different theoretical perspectives: multi-level governance and capacities for transformative climate governance. We apply this framework in an exploratory case study of the Dutch energy regions
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Introducing the lens of markets-in-the-making to transition studies: The case of the Danish wind power market agencement Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 9.377) Pub Date : 2022-06-12 Peter Karnøe, Julia Kirch Kirkegaard, Koray Caliskan
This paper contributes to a renewed understanding of markets in transition studies by focusing on how unknown things must be ‘framed’ and pacified in order to be attributed some ‘value’ that makes them ‘matter’. We empirically analyze the making of a market agencement for wind power deployment in Denmark. Using an analytical framework of framing and pacifying, we trace three entangled ‘domains of action’
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Destabilizing the food regime “from within”: Tools and strategies used by urban food policy actors Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 9.377) Pub Date : 2022-06-04 Dalia Mattioni, Paul Milbourne, Roberta Sonnino
In the context of food transition studies scant attention has been given to the role of state authorities (be they local or national) in destabilizing the dominant food regime. Specifically, little is known about how state-based regime actors use the power at their disposal to bring about change “from within”. Using a political economy approach and data from qualitative research with local government
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Ten financial actors can accelerate a transition away from fossil fuels Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 9.377) Pub Date : 2022-06-04 Truzaar Dordi, Sebastian A. Gehricke, Alain Naef, Olaf Weber
Investors have a central role to play in sustainability transitions, due to their inordinate influence on the governance of the fossil fuel extraction industry. Using network analysis, this paper links fossil fuel firms to equity owners, by distinguishing ownership characteristics of top shareholders and establishing a ranked list of the most prevalent shareholders based on emissions potential and
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How global regimes diffuse in space – Explaining a missed transition in San Diego's water sector Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 9.377) Pub Date : 2022-06-03 Johan Miörner, Jonas Heiberg, Christian Binz
Socio-technical regimes are highly institutionalized rationalities that have co-evolved with actors, technologies and institutions over extended periods of time and become taken for granted across geographical contexts. Transition studies feature an extensive focus on regime dynamics within specific territorial contexts. However, we know surprisingly little of how regime rationalities are constructed
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Connecting the multi-level-perspective and social practice approach for sustainable transitions Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 9.377) Pub Date : 2022-05-30 Margit Keller, Marlyne Sahakian, Léon Francis Hirt
The increasing sense of urgency to transition to sustainable modes of consumption and production requires an understanding of social problem framings and processes of change. We examine how two conceptual frameworks, the Multi-level Perspective (MLP), a socio-technical transition theory, and Social Practice Approaches (SPA), contribute to understanding opportunities for social change. We share the
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Governing translocal experimentation in multi-sited transition programs: Dynamics and challenges Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 9.377) Pub Date : 2022-05-16 Kristiaan P.W. Kok, Evelien de Hoop, Frans Sengers, Jacqueline E.W. Broerse, Barbara J. Regeer, Anne M.C. Loeber
Transition experiments are important instruments to foster sustainability transitions. Transition scholars increasingly suggest investigating how multiple local experiments can become connected across spatial scales, and how transformative dynamics of multiple connected experiments can be facilitated and governed. In this paper we analyze the different types of translocal dynamics involved in simultaneously
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Deepening democracy for the governance toward just transitions in agri-food systems Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 9.377) Pub Date : 2022-05-06 Julia Tschersich, Kristiaan P.W. Kok
In this paper, we explore the relation between democracy and justice in governing agri-food transitions. We argue that a deeper understanding of democracy is needed to foster just transitions. First, we present a multi-dimensional understanding of justice in transitions and relate it to scholarship on democratizing transitions. Then, we argue that three paradigm shifts are required to overcome current
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Power and empowerment of grassroots innovations for sustainability transitions: A review Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 9.377) Pub Date : 2022-05-06 Guilherme Raj, Giuseppe Feola, Maarten Hajer, Hens Runhaar
The sustainability transitions scholarship is increasingly applying power and empowerment frameworks to investigate the role of grassroots innovations in the politics of societal change; however, theoretical fragmentation persists. This paper presents a systematic literature review of 88 studies on grassroots innovations for sustainability transitions that employ the lenses of power and empowerment
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Farming on the margins: Just transition and the resilience of peripheral farms Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 9.377) Pub Date : 2022-04-29 Irene Kuhmonen, Marjo Siltaoja
Sustainability transition demands fundamental changes taking place at the farm system level. At the same time, many farms are operating on the verge of financial profitability, especially in geographically disadvantaged peripheral regions with a limited range of production opportunities. These observations raise concerns about the transition's justice aspects. Using the concept of resilience, we analysed
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People's perceptions of energy technologies in an era of rapid transformation Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 9.377) Pub Date : 2022-04-28 Christopher D. O'Connor, Kaitlin Fredericks, Kaylee Kosoralo
In this article, we draw on theorizing about how people navigate risk and uncertainty in contemporary times to explain public perceptions of a range of energy technologies. In doing so, we critique existing literature that has focused on the concepts NIMBY (‘Not In My BackYard’) and technological acceptance. We use data collected from Canada to examine people's comfort levels with energy technologies
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How power and politics shape niche-regime interactions: A view from the Global South Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 9.377) Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Dwarkeshwar Dutt
The significant role of politics in shaping sustainability transitions (ST) is well-recognized but still under-researched, especially in the Global South, where institutional context can differ widely from the Global North. For instance, informal transport is a unique and common feature of many Global South countries and constitutes complexity that is not captured adequately by transition studies’
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A Media-based Innovation Indicator: Examining declining Technological Innovation Systems Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 9.377) Pub Date : 2022-04-23 Daniel Weiss, Fabian Nemeczek
The recently introduced technological innovation system (TIS) life cycle allows analyzing the decline of mature technologies. This study complements the associated empirical indicators by proposing a novel text-based innovation output indicator based on the media's role in forming collective expectations. We process more than 15,000 English news articles to capture the media's reporting on technological
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Energy ageism: The framework of the problem and the challenges of a just energy transition Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 9.377) Pub Date : 2022-04-20 Piotr Żuk, Paweł Żuk
The article emphasises the importance of the problem of discrimination against older people in the context of energy transition. The authors propose an intersectoral perspective that creates bridges between the research sphere, including energy research and ageing studies, and practices in public health, energy policy, social policy and the challenges of climate change. The concept that connects all
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Just transition principles and criteria for food systems and beyond Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 9.377) Pub Date : 2022-04-20 Theresa Tribaldos, Teea Kortetmäki
In this article, we propose a framework of principles and criteria for just transitions in food systems. Climate mitigation activities are urgently needed in food systems, but can have damaging social, environmental, economic, and health impacts. Consequently, food system transitions can cause significant side effects across and beyond food systems, aggravating existing inequalities and unsustainabilities
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Policy instruments for green-growth of clusters: Implications from an agent-based model Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 9.377) Pub Date : 2022-04-20 Ram Kamath, Zhanli Sun, Frans Hermans
Green-growth theory asserts that green-innovations will allow us to decouple economic growth from pollution. Policies that promote green-innovations are therefore paramount. Scholarship has become increasingly interested in how green-clusters can contribute to sustainable innovation and decoupled green-growth. In this study, we create an agent-based model that can simulate a cluster's transition, as
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The emergence of a global innovation system – A case study from the urban water sector Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 9.377) Pub Date : 2022-04-20 Jonas Heiberg, Bernhard Truffer
Innovation studies is increasingly acknowledging the multi-scalar nature of the systemic contexts, in which innovations are being developed and deployed. This paper builds on and further develops a recently proposed framework for studying global innovation systems (GIS). It aims at explaining the emergence of a GIS by outlining the specific local resource-related conditions that lead to the creation
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Path dependence and path break-out in the electricity sector Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 9.377) Pub Date : 2022-04-15 Eeva-Lotta Apajalahti, Gregor Kungl
Path dependence is a key mechanism that holds socio-technical systems in their current development trajectories. In sustainability transitions research a broad conception of path dependence prevails, which covers a variety of historical barriers to transformation. We advocate for a more narrow conception of path dependence that focuses on the underlying self-reinforcing mechanisms. We introduce theoretical
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Mexico’s renewable energy innovation system: Geothermal and solar photovoltaics case study Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 9.377) Pub Date : 2022-04-13 Andres de Jesus Fernandez, Jim Watson
This paper evaluates the impact of changes in Mexican energy policies on the Mexican innovation systems ability to support renewable energy technologies, through a comparative case study on geothermal and solar photovoltaic technologies. The study examines the effectiveness of government policy in each case by exploring how changes in policy have affected the development of their respective innovation
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Is social cohesion decisive for energy cooperatives existence? A quantitative analysis Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 9.377) Pub Date : 2022-04-11 Maria Luisa Lode, Thierry Coosemans, Luis Ramirez Camargo
Energy Cooperatives (ECoops), the most prominent example for Energy Communities, are attributed great importance for the energy transition both through the engagement of energy end-consumers and the increase of local renewable energy sources. We conducted an exploratory (spatial) data analysis to study which indicators of the European Social Progress Index and Quality of Life Index co-occure with the
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Policy entrepreneurs in green building transitions: The role of interurban coalitions Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 9.377) Pub Date : 2022-04-08 Rachel Friedman, Gillad Rosen
This research examines the composition and operation of a multi-scalar, inter-urban coalition in Israel's unfolding green building transition. Using the Multi-level perspective as an analytical framework, this research draws on concepts from policy entrepreneurship to flesh out the role of the city and city networks in transition activity. It examines how an entrepreneurial coalition of cities – the
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The role of governments in uncertainty orchestration in market formation for sustainability transitions Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 9.377) Pub Date : 2022-04-07 Leonardo Augusto de Vasconcelos Gomes, Lidyane Stephane da Silva Barros
Market formation in sustainability transitions is characterised by deep and longstanding uncertainty. Albeit prior research provides a rich repertoire of theoretical frameworks on how incumbent firms and entrepreneurs deal with uncertainty, there is still scant literature on the role of the government in orchestrating uncertainty concerning market formation. By studying multiple cases involving an
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The changing landscape of deep transitions: Sociotechnical imprinting and chemical warfare Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 9.377) Pub Date : 2022-04-07 Caitriona McLeish, Phil Johnstone, Johan Schot
This paper addresses a major gap in sustainability transitions research: the role of shocks in shaping transition dynamics. The papers focuses on shocks with traumatic consequences, in particular World War I and II. The paper revisits discussions on the sociotechnical landscape in the Multi-Level Perspective (MLP) and Deep Transition framework, offering refined versions of the concepts of systemic
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Understanding resistance to just transition ideas in Australian coal communities Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 9.377) Pub Date : 2022-03-27 Robert MacNeil, Madeleine Beauman
Over the past several years, numerous actors across Australian society have increasingly advocated ‘just transition’ policies to help coal communities move beyond their reliance on fossil fuel extraction. As part of this, individuals from the environmental movement, trade unions, various NGOs and the private sector have called for a range of initiatives designed to help maintain the social and economic
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Sustainability-oriented labs in transitions: An empirically grounded typology Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 9.377) Pub Date : 2022-03-24 Gavin McCrory, Johan Holmén, Niko Schäpke, John Holmberg
Sustainability is high on the political agenda, with its analytical and practical importance underscored in the field of sustainability transitions. Experiments, arenas, and laboratories are frequently highlighted as real-world objects to investigate sustainability in place. Despite existing lab studies, attempts at comparison at the empirical level remain unconvincing. Here, sustainability remains
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Hard coal phase-out and the labour market transition pathways: The case of Poland Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 9.377) Pub Date : 2022-03-21 Jakub Sokołowski, Jan Frankowski, Joanna Mazurkiewicz, Piotr Lewandowski
We study the labour market transition pathways driven by the coal phase-out in Poland between 1990 and 2050. We apply the concept of branching points to describe the coal transition in the context of structural and labour supply changes and educational upgrading. We show that in the 1990s and 2000s, job opportunities for miners were scarce, as the trajectories of all of these trends deteriorated their
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A network perspective to niche-regime interactions and learning at the regime level Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 9.377) Pub Date : 2022-03-20 Ionara Costa, Sibylle Bui, Olivier De Schutter, Tom Dedeurwaerdere
This study proposes an analytical approach to niche-regime-interactive learning, taking an inter-organisational-network-learning perspective. This approach is illustrated empirically with a network-learning episode in which several actors engage with each other for the marketing of local products in supermarkets. Its novelty is two-fold: 1) it integrates the notion of learner levels into the MLP, differentiating
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Transforming innovation policy in the context of global security Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 9.377) Pub Date : 2022-03-16 Paula Kivimaa
Historically STI policy is connected to national security and the military. Yet, contemporary innovation policy is rarely discussed in a security context. This perspective argues that new, transformation-oriented innovation policies should more explicitly consider (a) the side-effects of policies on global security and (b) how the global security context influences the achievement of transitions. This
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Niches, narratives, and national policy: How India developed off-grid solar for rural electrification Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 9.377) Pub Date : 2022-03-11 Sushil Rajagopalan, Hanna L. Breetz
Decentralized renewables are critical for rural electrification in many countries in the Global South. As a case study of the development of decentralized renewables, we trace the evolution of India's off-grid solar sector from 1980 through 2020. We apply the Multi-Level Perspective (MLP) to highlight interactions across three levels of actors, with additional attention to how their actions were shaped
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Transformative innovation policy: A systematic review Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 9.377) Pub Date : 2022-03-08 Carolina R. Haddad, Valentina Nakić, Anna Bergek, Hans Hellsmark
This paper reviews the emerging literature on “transformative” innovation policy (TIP) in order to (1) identify unique TIP characteristics and the challenges they imply for policymakers throughout the policy cycle and (2) examine the literature's contribution to practical policymaking. We identify five main distinguishing TIP characteristics and analyse the literature's understanding of how they influence
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Directionality in transformative innovation policy: who is giving directions? Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 9.377) Pub Date : 2022-03-04 Darcy Parks
The aim of this article is to improve knowledge about how directionality is implemented in transformative innovation policy and mission-oriented innovation policy. Academic literature conceptualizes attention to societal challenges as the directionality of innovation systems. Directionality requires an opening-up to include actors from the demand side of innovation processes. But this opening-up raises
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Examining the vehicle-to-grid niche in Australia through the lens of a trial project Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 9.377) Pub Date : 2022-02-23 Kathryn Lucas-Healey, Björn C.P. Sturmberg, Hedda Ransan-Cooper, Laura Jones
Vehicle-to-grid is a promising source of the shallow storage needed for Australia’s energy transition. However, it is a niche innovation dependent on other new technologies. The paper describes the Australian vehicle-to-grid niche via examination of a trial and sets an agenda for niche development. The multi-level perspective provides understanding of the processes of socio-technical transitions and
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Overcoming the harmony fallacy: How values shape the course of innovation systems Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 9.377) Pub Date : 2022-02-15 Jonas Heiberg, Bernhard Truffer
The technological innovation systems (TIS) framework is one of the dominant perspectives in transitions studies to analyze success conditions and system failures of newly emerging technologies and industries. So far, TIS studies mostly adopted a rather harmonious view on the values of actors and by this were unable to address competition, conflicts and, in particular, battles over diverging directionalities
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It's not the market, stupid: On the importance of non-market economies in sustainability transitions Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 9.377) Pub Date : 2022-02-15 Koen Beumer, Harro Maat, Dominic Glover
It has been widely assumed that market mechanisms are central in incentivizing the development of sustainable innovations and that market formation is critical for the diffusion of innovations. We challenge the centrality of markets in understanding and promoting the development and diffusion of sustainable innovations using the case of the System of Rice Intensification. This innovation for sustainable
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Skills deployment for a ‘just’ net zero energy transition Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 9.377) Pub Date : 2022-02-10 Rachel Bray, Adolfo Mejía Montero, Rebecca Ford
A ‘Just Transition’ seeks to protect the rights of the workforce throughout transition away from high carbon industries and towards sustainable economic sectors. This includes reskilling where appropriate and a fair distribution of benefits, alongside recognition and participation of affected communities. Drawing on a systematic literature review and a case study delineated by the 38 English Local
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Pathways and harbours for the translocal diffusion of sustainability innovations in Europe Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 9.377) Pub Date : 2022-02-05 Harm A.R.M. van den Heiligenberg, Gaston J. Heimeriks, Marko P. Hekkert, Rob P.J.M. Raven
Sustainability challenges require experimenting with various types of sustainability innovations. Local and regional context conditions influence their diffusion. Our research question is: what are pathways for the transfer of sustainability innovations to other locations, and how do local and regional conditions enable this transfer? We use the notion of ‘harbours’ to conceptualise the combination
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Identity in sustainability transitions: The crucial role of landscape in the Green Heart Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 9.377) Pub Date : 2022-02-03 Annelli Janssen, PJ Beers, Barbara van Mierlo
This article proposes that identity formation and reformation are important dynamics that influence and are influenced by the course of a sustainability transition. We study identity (re-)formation in the transition of the dairy sector in a rural area in the Netherlands: the Green Heart. Soil subsidence, high emissions, and economic pressures require substantial changes in practices in the dairy sector
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A constructivist approach to the spatial organization of transformative innovation policy Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 9.377) Pub Date : 2022-01-28 Stine Hach Juul Madsen
Recent attempts to conceptualize the multi-level governance of transformative innovation policy make strong arguments in favour of pursuing societal challenges at the subnational scale. This article suggests, that these recent efforts risk falling into a scalar trap, because they rely on a theoretical assumption about the policy effectiveness of the subnational scale. In response, the paper proposes
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Sustainable market transformation: A refined framework for analyzing causal loops in transitions to sustainability Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 9.377) Pub Date : 2022-01-29 Andre Nijhof, Alice Wins, Aikaterini Argyrou, Nicolas Chevrollier
This article proposes a refined conceptual framework to understand and act upon sustainable market transformation processes. Currently, there is a knowledge gap between government-oriented approaches to transition management and market formation that is addressed in evolutionary economics. Consequently, this article builds upon literature in the field of evolutionary economics, systems theory and transition
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A perspective on the future of sustainability transitions research Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 9.377) Pub Date : 2022-01-26 Bernhard Truffer, Harald Rohracher, Paula Kivimaa, Rob Raven, Floor Alkemade, Luis Carvalho, Giuseppe Feola
The journal Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions (EIST) recently celebrated its tenth anniversary. Its development represents a great success, contributing substantially to the consolidation and maturation of the research field of sustainability transitions. However, being content with past successes will not be sufficient for tackling emerging challenges. In this perspective paper, we
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The afterlives of off-grid solar: The dynamics of repair and e-waste in Malawi Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 9.377) Pub Date : 2022-01-25 Shanil Samarakoon, Paul Munro, Collen Zalengera, Matthew Kearnes
There has been profound growth in the adoption of off-grid solar devices across Sub-Saharan Africa over the last decade. However, there has been limited attention given to the afterlives of these devices and their justice implications. This is of particular concern as these increasing rates of off-grid solar adoption are across contexts in which regulatory mechanisms and e-waste infrastructure are
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Leaders or networkers? The role of mayors in renewable energy transition Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 9.377) Pub Date : 2022-01-22 Timothy Fraser, Mary Bancroft, Andrew Small, Lily Cunningham
Why do some cities adopt more renewable energy than others? This mixed methods study quantifies the effect that a supportive city mayor can have on his/her city's renewable energy transition. We draw on the case of sizable cities (at least 30,000 residents) in the US states of Massachusetts and the Japanese prefecture of Chiba. We catalogue instances of mayoral support for renewables and specific companies
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How the European recovery program (ERP) drove France's petroleum dependency, 1948–1975 Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 9.377) Pub Date : 2022-01-20 Robert Groß, Jan Streeck, Nelo Magalhães, Fridolin Krausmann, Helmut Haberl, Dominik Wiedenhofer
The article investigates the roles of the European Recovery Program (ERP) and the Organization for European Economic Co-Operation (OEEC) in pushing France towards a pathway of petroleum dependency. The study is based on the energy transition and the Deep Transition frameworks, notably the analysis of specific collective actors. The analysis elaborates on the impact the OEEC Refinery Expansion Program
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Contemporary financial capitalism and sustainability transitions in urban built environments Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 9.377) Pub Date : 2022-01-20 Paris Hadfield, Lars Coenen
Cities are considered key sites where innovation can be nurtured to drive sustainability transitions. While existing studies recognise that transitions occur unevenly across space and time, predominant theories of change offer limited understanding of the geographical conditions shaping whether and how low-carbon innovations are scaled. As sustainability practitioners and advocates increase calls for
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From institutional work to transition work: Actors creating, maintaining and disrupting transition processes Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 9.377) Pub Date : 2022-01-18 Meike Löhr, Camilla Chlebna, Jannika Mattes
This contribution outlines how transition processes can be analysed as ‘transition work’. We draw on the concept of institutional work, review existing applications in transition research and adapt it to transitions, labelling the result ‘transition work’. Transition work details how actors ‘create’, ‘maintain’ and ‘disrupt’ transition processes. By analysing instances around the evolution of policies
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Functional analysis of technological innovation system with inclusion of sectoral and spatial perspectives: The case of the biogas industry in Russia Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 9.377) Pub Date : 2022-01-15 Tatiana Nevzorova
This study aims to conduct a functional analysis of the technological innovation system with the inclusion of sectoral and spatial perspectives. This involves the impact analysis of a variety of sectors’ integration into the biogas value chain and a more explicit review of spatial and institutional contexts of the transition process. By applying mixed methods research, this approach is illustrated
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Biting the bullet: Addressing the democratic legitimacy of transition management Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 9.377) Pub Date : 2022-01-13 Tessa de Geus, Julia M. Wittmayer, Fenna Vogelzang
From early on, reflexive governance approaches have been problematised for lacking explicit consideration of formal governance and decision-making structures. Developed over two decades ago, transition management is not an exception; it has been specifically critiqued for being democratically illegitimate and depoliticising issues. Contributing to these debates, this article develops a legitimacy framework
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Too risky – The role of finance as a driver of sustainability transitions Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 9.377) Pub Date : 2022-01-13 Björn Nykvist, Aaron Maltais
The finance sector has a long track record of engaging with sustainability issues, and policymakers and sector representatives agree that a transition to sustainability needs to be mirrored by rapidly expanding financing. Based on in-depth interviews with a broad range of actors in the Swedish finance sector, we show that despite a strong recognition of the challenges, the sector remains cautious towards
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Market intermediation and its embeddeness – Lessons from the Finnish energy transition Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 9.377) Pub Date : 2022-01-10 S. Hyysalo, E. Heiskanen, J. Lukkarinen, K. Matschoss, M. Jalas, P. Kivimaa, J.K. Juntunen, F. Moilanen, P. Murto, E. Primmer
Energy transitions are in many respects past the early exploration stages and moving towards the urgently needed mass market take-up. We examine the Finnish energy transition regarding how solutions – heat-pumps, deep retrofits and new district-wide solutions – that have demonstrated economic benefits and reasonable payback times have faced slow uptake and slow market development. We focus on the difficulties
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Conceptualizing market formation for transformative policy Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 9.377) Pub Date : 2022-01-06 Wouter P.C. Boon, Jakob Edler, Douglas K.R. Robinson
Transitions are hardly conceivable without understanding how new markets are formed. However, there is still an incipient conceptualization of market formation in the context of transformation and transformative policy. Drawing on existing perspectives of market formation in economics of innovation, sociology of markets and marketing studies literature, this paper develops a framework for characterizing
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An interdisciplinary perspective on scaling in transitions: Connecting actors and space Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 9.377) Pub Date : 2022-01-07 Paula Maria Bögel, Karoline Augenstein, Meike Levin-Keitel, Paul Upham
The question of how sustainable innovations and how niche experimentation lead to systemic changes are a core motivation of sustainability transitions research. As an inherently interdisciplinary field, although this question is addressed from different academic perspectives, the dominant understanding of relevant scaling processes is grounded in concepts of growth, diffusion and expansion. This article
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Conceptualising institutional complexity in the upscaling of community enterprises: Lessons from renewable energy and carsharing Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 9.377) Pub Date : 2022-01-02 Thomas Bauwens, Taneli Vaskelainen, Koen Frenken
Community enterprises may play pivotal roles in sustainability transitions but have received limited attention in the transitions literature. This paper proposes a framework for theorising the challenges that community enterprises face as they scale up due to the rising institutional complexity of their organisational model, combining the institutional logics of community, market, and corporation.
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The role of place in shaping urban transformative capacity. The case of València (Spain) Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 9.377) Pub Date : 2021-12-28 Jordi Peris-Blanes, Sergio Segura-Calero, Nancy Sarabia, David Ribó-Pérez
This paper inquiries into the role of place in shaping urban transformative capacity to advance urban sustainability transitions. The urban transformative capacity notion developed by Wolfram (2016) provides us with a holistic framework to reconceptualize and address the specific contextual conditions that become relevant in a city to advance path-deviant changes towards sustainability. By comparing
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The Barefoot College ‘eco-village’ approach to women's entrepreneurship in energy Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 9.377) Pub Date : 2021-12-18 Giulia M. Mininni
There is a global call to address gender equality in energy, such as the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals 5 and 7. I discuss the case study of the Solar Mamas’ programme of the Barefoot College in rural Rajasthan that trains rural women in small-scale energy technology. The training, and engagement with the ‘eco-campus’ life particularly facilitated their ‘transformative’ empowerment while