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Just transition out of coal-fired power: Policy lessons from Australia's automotive sector closure Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Vigya Sharma, Julia Loginova
Nearly three-quarters of Australia's electricity generation is coal-dependent with fossil fuel-led electricity contributing to over a third of Australia's CO emissions. Climate change imperatives are calling for permanent shifts to these patterns, leading to early closure announcements of several coal-fired power plants across the country. Although the pace and scale of the energy transition are unprecedented
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Can grassroots movements in water conflicts drive socio-technical transitions in water management systems? Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Jonatan Godinez Madrigal, Nora Van Cauwenbergh, Heliodoro Ochoa-Garcia, Pieter van der Zaag
Water conflicts open windows of opportunity for grassroots movements to transform water systems. However, academic fields studying social movements in socio-environmental conflicts are not well equipped to deal with complexity, non-linear dynamics, and emergent properties. Therefore, these fields rarely engage with long-term complex social processes and dynamics leading to systemic socio-technical
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Policy mix for the sustainable protein transition in Austria - Addressing repercussions of regime shifts as a prerequisite for acceleration Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 L. Hundscheid, C. Voigt, D. Bergthaler, C. Plank, M. Wurzinger, A.H. Melcher
The sustainable protein transition within a broader food system transition currently lacks a consistent and coherent policy approach. Policies related to protein production are not aligned with consumption-based policies and are embedded in different jurisdictions. Exemplified by the case of Austria, this study aims to assess the current policy mix and explore how it could be designed to support a
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Grassroots innovation: A review and a meta-theoretical sustainability assessment framework Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Katerina Troullaki, Stelios Rozakis
Diverse discourses converge into the importance of broadening the focus of sustainability innovations from merely cleaner technologies to more radical, paradigmatic innovations. Here, we focus on grassroots innovation (GI) as a radical innovation paradigm whose agents, goals and practices are fundamentally different from conventional innovation. Researchers typically attribute GIs the potential to
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Renewable energy diplomacy and transitions: An environmental peacebuilding approach Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Mirza Sadaqat Huda
Energy diplomacy is one of the key determinants in achieving net zero emissions by 2050. The traditional concept of energy diplomacy is rooted in national security and fossil fuel supplies, which is disconnected from global efforts to develop and deploy renewables at a pace that can limit global warming to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels. Extant studies have not systematically analyzed the theoretical
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Responsible mission governance: An integrative framework and research agenda Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Martijn Wiarda, Matthijs J. Janssen, Tom B.J. Coenen, Neelke Doorn
Governance lies at the heart of instigating, steering, and creating the conditions for mission-oriented transitions that potentially help resolve some of our grand societal challenges. In doing so, policymakers will need to navigate both epistemic and normative considerations to develop, implement, and evaluate missions responsibly. A number of scholars have therefore expressed the need for a better
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Institutional context and the governance of heat transitions: The cases of the Netherlands and the UK Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Matthew Lockwood, Anna Devenish
Decarbonising residential heat is essential for achieving net zero targets. The Netherlands and the UK are embarking on heat transitions from similar starting points, with a heavy dependence on natural gas. However, their governance approaches differ, with local municipal visions and plans playing a lead role in the Netherlands compared with a market-led approach in England and Wales. Scotland occupies
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Religious repertoires of sustainability: Why religion is central to sustainability transitions, whatever you believe Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Timothy Stacey
Leading figures in sustainability transitions stress the need for approaches from other fields. A particular blind spot is the role of culture and meaning in transitions. This paper introduces the concept of “religious repertoires” as a means of better understanding what enables and inhibits social change. Existing research on the role of religion in transitions focuses on either particular religions
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How “clean” is the hydrogen economy? Tracing the connections between hydrogen and fossil fuels Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-03 Rubén Vezzoni
Hydrogen is experiencing a resurgence in energy transition debates. Before representing a solution, however, the existing hydrogen economy is still a climate change headache: over 99 % of production depends on fossil fuels, oil refining accounts for 42 % of demand, and its transportation is intertwined with fossil infrastructure, like natural gas pipelines. This article investigates the path-dependent
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Urban infrastructure reconfiguration and digital platforms: Who is in control? Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Mike Hodson, Andrew McMeekin, Andy Lockhart
The literature on urban sustainability transitions has grown substantially over the last two decades. Recent debates have sought to position urban transition as an incremental process of reconfiguration informed by novel relationships between existing systems of provision and new infrastructural and governing arrangements. We extend these debates by exploring how digital platformisation of urban infrastructure
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Transition towards a bioeconomy: Comparison of conditions and institutional work in selected industries Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Kerstin Wilde, Frans Hermans
Radical innovations aiming for sustainability usually need to transform existing institutions in order to become successful. From a transition perspective, institutional work is one of the actors’ core activities in order to influence the dominant regime. This paper explores how institutional work materialises in an emerging bioeconomy. Our conceptual model shows how an industry's field conditions
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Assessing regime destabilisation through policy change: An analysis of agricultural policy in the United Kingdom during Brexit Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-20 Leonard Frank, Giuseppe Feola, Niko Schäpke
In sustainability transitions research, the deliberate destabilisation of socio-technical regimes is increasingly recognised as a central intervention point. Absent, however, are granular approaches for assessing whether regime destabilisation actually occurs in processes of systemic change. We propose to assess regime destabilisation through shifts in the institutionalisation of field logics. Methodologically
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What are the key strategies for a successful and fair energy transition for all? Multi-criteria assessment of isolated case studies in São Paulo Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 A. Leduchowicz-Municio, B. Domenech, L. Ferrer-Martí, M.E.M. Udaeta, A.L.V. Gimenes
Despite ongoing efforts, resource depletion and climate change continue to aggravate inequality. How can energy initiatives contribute to a more sustainable and equal society? This work aims to identify the challenges and opportunities facing neglected Brazilian communities in achieving fair energy transitions. Indigenous and traditional communities are field-assessed through site visits and stakeholder
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Transition conflicts: A Gramscian political ecology perspective on the contested nature of sustainability transitions Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Tobias Kalt
Despite a broad consensus on sustainability, conflicts are increasingly prevalent in sustainability transitions. Although these conflicts significantly influence transition dynamics and socio-ecological futures, the role of conflicts in sustainability transitions remains insufficiently addressed. This paper aims to elucidate the contested dynamics of sustainability transitions by merging political
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Legitimising technologies for a circular economy: Contested discourses on innovation for plastics recycling in Europe Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Inese Zepa, Vivian Z. Grudde, Catharina R. Bening
The European Commission aims to increase the recycling of plastic packaging to 60% by 2025, requiring fundamental changes towards a more circular economy. Pathways for this transition require policy support that largely depends on their legitimacy in the public discourse. These normative aspects remain poorly understood for ‘in-between’ technologies, i.e., technologies that are no longer novel but
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Advancing the understanding of social innovation in sustainability transitions: exploring processes, politics, and policies for accelerating transitions Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Julia M. Wittmayer, Sabine Hielscher, Karoline S. Rogge, K. Matthias Weber
This introduction to the special issue on ‘Advancing the understanding of social innovation in sustainability transitions’ is situated at the intersection of transition studies and social innovation research. In the past years, linkages between the fields of social innovation research and transition studies have been established: while transition scholars increasingly focus on social innovation phenomena
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Home field advantage: examining incumbency reorientation dynamics in low-carbon transitions Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Sophie-Marie Ertelt, Johan Kask
Recent work has offered a more nuanced view of incumbent actors' roles in transitions, yet a comprehensive understanding of how reorientation activities and subsequent interaction patterns among different incumbent actor types shape the direction of system reconfigurations remains underexplored. This paper proposes a framework for empirically assessing actors' relational dynamics in response to low-carbon
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The role of design in sustainable transitions: The case of mobility in Greater Copenhagen Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-06 Andrés Felipe Valderrama Pineda, Morten Elle, Jens Iuel-Jensen
This article is an exploration of the role of design in sustainability transitions. Design has the potential to complement discussions on governance and actions related to transitions in the making, and activate scholars’ ability to critically assess existing technologies, technological components and systemic relations, and their capacity to propose alternatives. The authors draw on their engagement
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Improving multilevel policy mixes for sustainable urban mobility transition Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-30 Xu Liu, Marc Dijk, Carlo Colombo
Transitioning to sustainable urban mobility in the EU requires a complex policy mix covering various transport modalities and levels of governance. Yet, existing studies focus mainly on a single modality or governance level as unit of analysis. To fill this gap, this article combines the literatures on policy mixes and on urban mobility transition to investigate the relations between various policies
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From shadows to light: The role of latent networks in mainstreaming solar PV practices Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Eva Heiskanen, Katharina Reindl, Salvatore Ruggiero
Practice theories have generated interest in sustainability transitions research as a means to study shared expectations, conventions and routines that maintain unsustainable consumption within the dominant regime. However, collective action to change practices, which is crucial for innovation, is seldom examined in practice theory research. This article applies practice theories to conceptualize the
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Coping with transition pain: An emotions perspective on phase-outs in sustainability transitions Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Kristina Bogner, Barbara Kump, Mayte Beekman, Julia Wittmayer
With this perspective paper, we aim to raise awareness of and offer starting points for studying the role of emotions and associated behavioural responses to losses in relation to phase-outs. We start from a psychological perspective and explain how losses due to phasing out dominant practices, structures, and cultures may threaten core psychological needs and lead to - what we introduce as - ‘transition
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Corrigendum to ‘Digitalization, trust, and sustainability transitions: Insights from two blockchain-based green experiments in China's electricity sector’ [Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 50 (2024), 100801] Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Yushi Chen, Zhen Yu
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Pluralising place frames in urban transition management: Net-zero transitions at precinct scale Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Darren Sharp, Rob Raven, Megan Farrelly
This paper is concerned with unpacking net-zero frames and identifying implications for precinct scale urban transition management. Using data from frontrunner interviews and secondary sources in a case study on the Monash Technology Precinct (Melbourne, Australia), the analysis points towards four frames of net-zero at precinct scale: ‘Electrify Everything’ focuses on technology development to achieve
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Digitalization, trust, and sustainability transitions: Insights from two blockchain-based green experiments in China's electricity sector Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Yushi Chen, Zhen Yu
Linking decarbonization with digitalization has been a promising trend in transition research. This paper explores how blockchain technologies matter in sustainability transitions through their key mechanism—trust—by comparing two blockchain-based green experiments in China's electricity sector. Blockchain technologies can bring institution-based trust among participating agents, but other types of
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From car-oriented to car-reduced planning practices: The complex patterns of actors’ mobility-related beliefs in developing a new neighborhood Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Annika Schröder, Thomas Klinger
The dominance of automobility is fundamentally embedded in urban planning. Its negative consequences, e.g., air pollution, congestion, and climate change, are known and perceptible. However, a fundamental change from car-oriented to car-reduced planning is far from mainstream. We assume that the required transition strongly relates to the diverging beliefs of the actors involved. To investigate how
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Institutional work and social skill: the formation of strategic action fields for local energy systems in Britain Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Jess Britton, Janette Webb
The concept of Strategic Action Fields (SAF) is combined with analysis of institutional work to investigate the tactics actors adopt to support or deter policy for integrated local energy systems. Integrating heat, power, and mobility systems at local or regional scale would entail highly significant changes in energy systems yet is an area of increasing policy interest. We explore how this field is
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The role of livelihoods in agrifood sustainability transitions Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Radhika Singh, Jampel Dell'Angelo, Nicholas Oguge, Collins Odote
Transitions to more sustainable agrifood systems are necessary to combat climate change and minimize environmental degradation. Such sustainability transitions have substantial implications for livelihoods, many of which will have to change to accommodate more sustainable practices. Livelihoods comprise the capabilities, assets, and activities individuals and households draw on for their means of living
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Transformative policy mix or policy pandemonium? Insights from the Climate Smart Agriculture policy mix in Costa Rica Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 María Rodríguez-Barillas, Laurens Klerkx, P. Marijn Poortvliet
Transformative innovation policies are gaining currency worldwide, but have been mainly studied in a Global North context and in the energy sector. This paper focuses empirically on Costa Rica's Climate Smart Agriculture policy mix. It addresses key knowledge gaps on the dynamics of transformative policy development in the agrifood sector in a Global South policy context. Results show Costa Rica's
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Analysing transitions in-the-making: A case study of aviation in Sweden Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Emily Christley, Emrah Karakaya, Frauke Urban
The aim of this paper is to analyse contemporary transitions in the aviation industry in Sweden. We take a durational perspective to consider narratives as coordinating mechanism in sustainability transitions. We find that industry actors are constructing narratives for alternative aircraft fuels and technologies as they seek to maintain aviation's societal function whilst mitigating its climate impact
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Exploring financiers’ beliefs and behaviours at the outset of low-carbon transitions: A shipping case study Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-18 Marie Fricaudet, Sophia Parker, Nishatabbas Rehmatulla
Ship financiers play an important role in the shipping industry's transition to a low carbon economy as they shape the financing terms provided to shipowners and the type of assets that are financed, but their transition-related beliefs are unclear. This paper proposes a novel theoretical framework which categorises financiers during low-carbon transitions into five archetypes. It also provides novel
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On the functional and structural scope of technological innovation systems – A literature review with conceptual suggestions Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-04 Johnn Andersson, Kristina Hojcková, Björn A. Sandén
This paper reviews how the functional and structural scope of technological innovation systems (TIS) are understood in the literature. We find that it is often unclear if the system function involves innovation, production or both, and a lack of agreement as to whether structural elements are social or social and technical. Since these issues risk hindering cumulative knowledge development and conceptual
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How user innovation communities contribute to sustainability transitions. An exploration of three online communities Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Jan Peuckert, Florian Kern
Online user communities have given rise to a new form of peer network collaboration. This paper examines three user innovation communities to assess their contribution to sustainability transitions, particularly in terms of exploring sustainable technical solutions and their integration into society. We study three user innovation communities by analysing internet forum interactions and conducting
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‘Fit-to-transform’: An institutional perspective on the empowerment of clothing product-service systems Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Jonas Van Gaubergen, Erik Paredis, Thomas Block
Innovative product-service systems (PSS) are to play an important role in the transition to the circular economy. While PSS break with consumer ownership and hold potential for sustainability, scholars identified dominant consumer preferences as obstacles to widespread diffusion. Therefore it remains unclear how these myriad emerging niches are trying to gain foothold in dominant regimes. This paper
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Conceptualizing the democratization of innovation through transitions theory: A case study of biohacking in community science labs Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-21 Dan Santos
Community science labs are important sites attempting to democratize science and biotechnology. With similarities to hackerspaces and makerspaces, these labs provide resources to conduct experiments and develop goods. As such, they are touted as potential sites for innovation for more just and equitable outcomes. This article aims to demonstrate how concepts from the transitions literature can be used
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Transformative investment: New rules for investing in sustainability transitions Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-22 Caetano C.R. Penna, Johan Schot, W.Edward Steinmueller
Closing the financial gap for promoting systemic socio-economic transformations to achieve sustainability requires both a substantial increase in investment levels and a qualitative change in investment strategies. In this Perspective, we elaborate on this claim and discuss why existing investment approaches that aim to make positive contributions to sustainability are unlikely to foster the systemic
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How ‘within-regime’ tensions can create windows of opportunity for new mobility services Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Jørgen Aarhaug, Andreas Kokkvoll Tveit
Often described as a difficult sector to transition, mobility has been the focus of much research within sustainability transitions. In transition studies, a window of opportunity (WoO) for new technologies often results from exogenous developments. This study draws on the political science perspective of multilevel governance to conceptualise mechanisms that create WoOs. Examining the introduction
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The role of spatial and relative proximity while transforming towards an edible city – The case of the City of the Future Dresden (Germany) Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Kristin Reiß, Martina Artmann
Transition Experiments (TE) are seen as a key to trigger sustainability transitions. However, the role of space in processes of experimentation for new and future-oriented solutions has thus far remained under-explored. In this paper, we shed light on the spatial patterns between actors engaging in a more sustainable future by establishing publicly accessible areas with edible greenery. We empirically
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Agency, directionality, location and the geographic situatedness of knowledge making: The politics of framing in innovation research on energy Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-05 Sam Unsworth, Helene Ahlborg, Sofie Hellberg
In this conceptual review, we use the concept of “framing” to explore how scholars work with innovation. Using a thematically and geographically diverse sample of 88 articles, we focus on sustainability transitions as research domain, energy as sector and literature review as method. Framings of innovation differ by themes such as agency, directionality and location, as well as onto-epistemological
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Systemic power relations of industry associations as an indicator of innovation potentials in market fields – An illustrative case Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-26 Chiara Iurato, Heiner Schanz
This paper proposes systemic power relations of industry associations as an indicator of the innovation potential in market fields. With this, we aim to advance the design of industrial policies towards normative directions such as a circular bio-economy, which requires the creation of market categories as leverage points in industrial sectors considering the micro-dynamic processes of market innovation
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Spheres of transformation: exploring personal, political and practical drivers of farmer agency and behaviour change in the Netherlands Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Niko Wojtynia, Jerry van Dijk, Marjolein Derks, Peter W.G. Groot Koerkamp, Marko P. Hekkert
Sustainability transitions research increasingly engages with agency and individual actor perspectives to explain complex system change. This paper introduces the spheres of transformation framework to study how and why 21 Dutch farmers, interviewed in the winter of 2020/2021, transform their business models towards sustainability. This framework is composed of three spheres: the personal (values and
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Discursive struggles over pesticide legitimacy in Switzerland: A news media analysis Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Antonia Kaiser
Societal concerns about pesticides and their negative effects have increased significantly in recent years. These concerns cumulated into discursive struggles over pesticide legitimacy. Although the emerging transition towards low-pesticide agriculture has become an important area of research, our understanding of those pesticide discourses and their function in (de)stabilizing the pesticide regime
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How to account for the dark sides of social innovation? Transitions directionality in renewable energy prosumerism Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Bonno Pel, Julia M. Wittmayer, Flor Avelino, Derk Loorbach, Tessa de Geus
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The dynamics of sustainability transitions: An archetype for transformation Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-08 Lawrence Gottschamer, Jeffrey P. Walters
Significant global sustainability challenges include among others, energy, climate, and sanitation. Previous Sustainability Transition research has attempted to understand transformation complexity and interdependence, primarily through single-case methodological studies or large-scale analytical frameworks such as the Multi-Level Perspective. This leaves a knowledge gap on common dynamics underlying
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Power to, over and with: Exploring power dynamics in social innovations in energy transitions across Europe Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Flor Avelino, Sabine Hielscher, Marta Strumińska-Kutra, Tessa de Geus, Linda Widdel, Julia Wittmayer, Alicja Dańkowska, Agata Dembek, Maria Fraaije, Jasmin Heidary, Marfuga Iskandarova, Karoline Rogge, Agata Stasik, Franco Crudi
This paper explores how power relations are manifested, altered and/or reproduced in processes of social innovations in energy transitions (SIE). We explore this research question by developing an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary power heuristic building on different dimensions of power: power to, power over and power with. This conceptual framework helps us analyse the power dynamics in multiple
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Communal heat planning: Overcoming the path-dependency of natural gas in residential heating? Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Isabell Braunger
To achieve climate neutrality by 2050, the EU must phase out all fossil fuels. Natural gas (NG) accounts for 25% of primary energy consumption of which 40% is used for residential heat. To prevent a lock-in of NG in residential heat, among other things, a long-term strategy for the decommissioning of the two million kilometres long distribution network is needed. Using Germany as a case study, this
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International technology innovation to accelerate energy transitions: The case of the international energy agency technology collaboration programmes Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-02 Clara Caiafa, Takashi Hattori, Hoseok Nam, Heleen de Coninck
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Forging a sharper blade: A design science research approach for transition studies Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Paul Moritz Wiegmann, Madis Talmar, Sjoerd Bastiaan de Nijs
Research on socio-technical transitions often recognizes the need for change in order to make society and the economy more sustainable. Yet, much of transition studies focuses on developing explanatory knowledge. There is a scarcity of tools and other prescriptive knowledge that is directly relevant to practice to induce the needed change. In line with recent calls to introduce a design perspective
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Redefining success in organizing towards degrowth Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Filka Sekulova, Isabelle Anguelovski, Lucía Argüelles
In order to untangle the meaning of success, or rather, thriving, for community-based initiatives (CBIs) that embody and prefigure degrowth, we bring sustainability transition, prefigurative politics, and degrowth scholarships in conversation with group facilitation practice and living systems theory. The article puts forward a model of organizational thriving grounded in the achievement of results
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Long-term country-level evidence of major but uneven ruptures in the landscape of industrial modernity Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Laur Kanger, Peeter Tinits, Anna-Kati Pahker, Kati Orru, Aro Velmet, Silver Sillak, Artjoms Šeļa, Olaf Mertelsmann, Erki Tammiksaar, Kristiina Vaik, Caetano C.R. Penna, Amaresh Kumar Tiwari, Kalmer Lauk
In order to address global environmental challenges many currently dominant societal ideas, institutions and practices related to the natural environment, science, technology and innovation need to be fundamentally rethought. Drawing on the recent Deep Transitions framework, this paper focuses on whether such shifts in the fabric of industrial societies can be detected during the past 120 years. Combining
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Transformative climate resilience and sport mega-events – The case of the Australian Open Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Peter Gollagher, Sebastian Fastenrath
Adapting to extreme weather events and mitigating greenhouse gases have become critical challenges for sport mega-events. It is clear it is increasingly difficult to host large summer and winter sporting events due to weather extremes such as heat waves, storms or droughts. Extreme heat, in particular, makes events – and event management – less predictable and can have a significant impact on the health
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Blending in, to transform the regime from within: Niche hybridisation strategies of Irish energy communities Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Luc F.M. van Summeren, Anna J. Wieczorek, Geert P.J. Verbong, Gunter J.T. Bombaerts
This study aimed to get a better and more nuanced understanding of niche strategies in practice. Niche hybridisation strategies were conceptualised in relation to the three core dimensions of socio-technical systems (institutions, actors, and technology). This conceptualisation was applied to the case of Community Power (CP). CP is a community-owned supply company that combines elements of cooperative
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The urgency of climate action and the aim for justice in energy transitions – dynamics and complexity Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Natascha van Bommel, Johanna I. Höffken
Policymakers are confronted with a growing urgency to act upon climate change, while simultaneously, justice considerations are increasingly foregrounded in discussions on energy transition policies. Yet, the dynamics between urgency and justice in energy transitions are not well understood. In this study, we investigate these dynamics thoroughly by taking stock of and bridging different bodies of
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Blends of emotions and innovation (Non)adoption: A focus on green energy innovations Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Carmen Valor, Juan Martino, Leonor Ruiz
Following calls for more research into the subjective experience of actors in sustainability transitions, this study examines the blends of emotions that consumers experience in the different stages of the innovation adoption process and how emotions inside a blend are interrelated to help or hinder innovation adoption. Focusing on energy-related innovations, an exploratory, interpretive study of 23
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Innovation studies, social innovation, and sustainability transitions research: From mutual ignorance towards an integrative perspective? Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-14 Attila Havas, Doris Schartinger, K. Matthias Weber
This article is a first attempt towards building an integrative analytical framework to study goal-orientated transformative change (GOTC) processes, defined as system-transforming processes that are guided by the ambition to resolve current or expected future societal challenges. GOTC can only start once a broad range of possible goals are considered by key stakeholders and major relevant actors are
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Agency in action: Towards a transactional approach for analyzing agency in sustainability transitions Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Frederik De Roeck, Katrien Van Poeck
This article formulates a conceptual and analytical contribution to investigations of agency in transitions. Transition studies often assume, rather than assess, structure-agency dynamics through conceptions of a ‘nested hierarchy’ between, or a ‘structuration continuum’ within, niches and regimes. Neo-institutionalist and practice theoretical approaches have provided tools for more precise investigations
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Of booms, busts, and sustainability: A socio-technical transition study of Iceland's mobility regime and its proximity to strong sustainability Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-09 Kevin Joseph Dillman, Jukka Heinonen, Brynhildur Davíðsdóttir
The need to reconfigure provisioning systems to achieve a good life within the planetary boundaries has been recognized, but few studies have investigated the temporal change dynamics of such systems in the context of strong sustainability. Using Iceland's mobility sector as a case study, the effects of significant economic swings and other landscape/innovation developments from 1995 to 2018 were narrated
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Incumbents’ in/ability to drive endogenous sustainability transitions in livestock farming: Lessons from Rotenburg (Germany) Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Jonathan Friedrich, Heiko Faust, Jana Zscheischler
Livestock farmers, as incumbents, face pressures to transition toward sustainability. We study these actors’ role in this process, particularly their in/ability to contribute to endogenous institutional change. Our study entails an interview-based single case study with farmers based on institutional theory. We find “partaking” to be the likely form of endogenous change, as incumbents predominantly
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Science for sale? Why academic marketization is a problem and what sustainability research can do about it Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Thomas Bauwens, Denise Reike, Martín Calisto-Friant
Scholars have long called out the flaws in academic publishing. However, a nuanced and constructive discussion of this issue is still lacking. We advocate that these flaws are symptoms of broader and intensifying marketization of academic research. To address this, we first discuss the two dimensions of marketization: the commodification of academic output and the ‘managerialization’ of academic governance
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Law and sustainable transitions: An analysis of aquaculture regulation Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Lena Schøning, Vera Helene Hausner, Mathilde Morel
The global demand for aquaculture products is rising, driven by declining wild fisheries, food security, and blue economy policies and initiatives, suggesting that aquaculture is significant for a sustainable future, despite its negative environmental impacts. Here we investigate the role of law in accelerating the transition towards sustainable aquaculture activities. We use the EU taxonomy for environmentally
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Operationalizing contested problem-solution spaces: The case of Dutch circular construction Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Martijn Wiarda, Tom B.J. Coenen, Neelke Doorn
In shaping collective responses to societal challenges, we currently lack an understanding of how to grasp and navigate conflicting ideas on societal problems and potential solutions. The problem-solution space is an increasingly popular framework for conceptualizing the extent to which problem-oriented and solution-oriented views are divergent. However, this reflexive framework needs an operationalization