Description
The Introduction to Sustainability Transitions Research provides a broad and up-to-date overview of the diverse, rapidly growing body of research on issues of sociotechnical transitions towards sustainability. It is structured as a comprehensive guide for early career researchers as well as for policymakers and practitioners to Sustainability Transitions Research. It aims at providing an entrance to the rich field on how to understand and explain the complex processes related to transition processes.
- Chapter 1: Introduction–What are Sustainability Transitions
PART 1: UNDERSTANDING SUSTAINABILITY TRANSITIONS
- Chapter 2: The Multi-Level Perspective on Sustainability Transitions - by Geels
- Chapter 3: Transitions governance
- Chapter 4: Innovation systems perspective on sustainability transitions
- Chapter 5: Strategic Niche Management: past, present, and future - by Raven
- Chapter 6: Disruption
- Chapter 7: Deep transitions - by Schot & Davies
PART 2: DIMENSIONS OF SUSTAINABILITY TRANSITIONS
Dynamics of transitions
- Chapter 8: Temporality, pace, and acceleration
- Chapter 9: Niche regime interaction
- Chapter 10: Multi-System-Interaction
- Chapter 11: Social practice theory
Power and politics in transitions
- Chapter 12: Power
- Chapter 13: Expectations & visions
- Chapter 14: Policies for accelerating sustainability transitions - by Rogge et al.
- Chapter 15: Political Economy - by Newell & Bhatia
- Chapter 16: Just Transitions
Actors and agency in transitions
- Chapter 17: Actors and their Roles in Transitions
- Chapter 18: Intermediaries - by Kanda et al.
- Chapter 19: Behaviour and the individual
- Chapter 20: Coalitions in Transitions
Geographies of transitions
- Chapter 21: Place and scale
- Chapter 22: Urban Transitions
- Chapter 23: Global South
PART 3: STUDYING SUSTAINABILITY TRANSITIONS
- Chapter 24: Ontologies, epistemologies and transdisciplinary research in sustainability transitions studies
- Chapter 25: Distanced versus engaged analyses
- Chapter 26: Retrospective versus contemporary analyses
- Chapter 27: Reflexivity in studying transitions
PART 4: FUTURE DIRECTIONS AND CHALLENGES
- Chapter 28: Future Outlook - by Simoens et al.
- Chapter 29: Conclusions