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Sustainability transitions are crucial for addressing our most urgent environmental and societal challenges. This volume offers a clear and accessible introduction to key concepts, theories, and approaches to this rapidly evolving field. Readers will gain insights into the foundational approaches to sustainability transitions research, as well into the impact of power dynamics, politics, diverse actors, and geography on how transitions develop and unfold. Bringing together contributions from over sixty leading and up-and-coming scholars, this volume bridges disciplinary boundaries to examine how sustainable systems emerge and evolve. Designed for both newcomers and experienced professionals, this book serves as a foundational reference for understanding sustainability transitions and navigating the complexities of large-scale transformation. It is essential reading for advanced students and researchers working in sustainability transitions, as well as educators, sustainability policymakers, and practitioners. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Contents
Preface; Chapter 1. Sustainability transitions Research - An Introduction Abe Hendriks and Julius Wesch; Part I. Understanding Sustainability Transitions: Chapter 2. The Multi-Level Perspective on Sustainability Transitions: background, overview, and current research topics Frank Geels; Chapter 3. Explorative transition governance: understanding by engaging in transitions in the making Aniek Hebinck and Derk Loorbach; Chapter 4. The rise of technological innovation systems in sustainability transitions Adriaan van der Loos, Remi Elzinga, Simona O. Negro and Marko P. Hekkert; Chapter 5. Strategic Niche Management: past, present and future Rob Raven; Chapter 6. Social Practice Theories and Sustainability Transitions Studies Senja Laakso, Margit Keller and Julia Backhaus; Chapter 7. Deep Transitions Jack Davies and Johan Schot; Part II. Dimensions of Sustainability Transitions: Dynamics of transitions; Chapter 8. Towards a critical study of temporalities in sustainability transitions: speed, duration, acceleration, and timescapes Laurence L. Delina; Chapter 9. Niche-regime interactions: post-automation in the Fourth Industrial Revolution Adrian Smith and Mariano Fressoli; Chapter 10. Multi-system dynamics in sustainability transitions: introduction and outlook Allan Dahl Andersen and Jochen Markard; Chapter 11. Disruption in sustainability transitions Paula Kivimaa, Annika Lonkila and Minna Kaljonen; Power & politics in transitions; Chapter 12. Power in sustainability transitions Guilherme Raj, Flor Avelino and Marie-Claire Bribois; Chapter 13. Expectations, Visions, Imaginaries - a subtle force in transition processes Harald Rohracher and Kornelia Konrad; Chapter 14. Policies for accelerating sustainability transitions: bridging insights from transition studies and policy studies Edgar Salas-Gironés, Nicholas Goedeking and Karoline S. Rogge; Chapter 15. The Political Economy of Transitions Peter Newell and Parth Bhatia; Chapter 16. Issues of justice in sustainability transitions Sara Heidenreich, Mari Martiskainen and Marianne Ryghaug; Actors & agency in transitions; Chapter 17. The roles of actors in sustainability transitions Julia Wittmayer; Chapter 18. Intermediaries and Intermediation in Sustainability Transitions Wisdom Kanda, Thomas Magnusson and Olof Hjelm; Chapter 19. Behaviour and the individual in sustainability transitions Elisabeth Dütschke, Paul Upham and Aline Scherrer; Chapter 20. Only changing policy? The role of coalitions in sustainability transitions Julius Wesche, Meike Löhr and David J. Hess; Geographies of transitions; Chapter 21. Place and Scale in Sustainability Transitions Lars Coenen, Christian Binz, Jim Murphy and Bernhard Truffer; Chapter 22. Urban Sustainability Transitions Research Markus Egermann, Franziska Ehnert, Marc Wolfram and Niki Frantzeskaki; Chapter 23. Sustainability transitions in the Global South Bipashyee Ghosh and Patience Mguni; Part III. Studying Sustainability Transitions: Chapter 24. How do we know what we know? Ontological and epistemological debates in sustainability transitions research Tomas Moe Skjølsvold; Chapter 25. Transforming 'systems': Which? How? Whose? Why? Whither? Whence? System Analysis and Critical Systems Thinking in Transitions Research Bonno Pel and Andrew Stirling; Chapter 26. Systems thinking and complexity in transitions research: understanding system dynamics, feedback loops, and non-linear change Floor Alkemade and George Papachristos; Chapter 27. No neutrality here: mobilising reflexivity in sustainability transitions research Kasper Ampe, Gert Goeminne, Abe Hendriks and Thomas Block; Part IV. Future Directions and Challenges: Chapter 28. Between deep roots and a broad crown: reflections on the development of sustainability transitions as a research field Machteld Catharina Simoens, Abe Hendriks and Leonard Frank.
