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Policy mixes for just transitions: A holistic evaluation framework Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-11 Minna Kaljonen, Ari Paloviita, Suvi Huttunen, Teea Kortetmäki
In this paper, we develop a holistic policy evaluation framework that aims to harness a fuller potential of just transitions. Although appeals for broader understanding of just transitions are becoming louder, applicable frameworks supporting consideration of justice in the planning and evaluation of transition policies are still lacking. The evaluation framework developed integrates the multidimensional
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Diffusion dynamics of the informal sector sustainable innovations: Exploring cases of grassroots innovations in India Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-09 Anjali Chandulal Lakum, Namrata, Hemant Kumar
Over the last two decades, researchers, policymakers, and practitioners have focused on the innovations in the informal sector, particularly grassroots innovations (GI) from low-income countries. Such innovations' diffusion dynamics, however, are uncharted territory. As a result, this paper explores the diffusion of GI from India's informal sector. We chose ten GI and gathered data in ex-situ and in-situ
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Place-based allocation of R&D funding: Directing the German innovation system for hydrogen technologies in space Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-05 Benedikt Walker
The geographical understanding of directionality in the literature on mission-oriented innovation systems is still underdeveloped. Therefore, this article reflects on whether the allocation of funding for R&D activities to different places can direct innovation systems in space. A place-based approach to the allocation of funding and its effects on innovation systems is developed to analyze how the
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Practices and politics of energy efficiency among householders in a low-energy building in Sweden Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-04 Hilda Wenander
The social practices of householders are crucial for the realisation of energy policies, but their political aspects have been overlooked in previous research. The aim of this paper is to deepen the understanding of the possibilities of householders for political participation in energy transitions in the home. By analysing the social practices of householders in a low-energy building, the paper demonstrates
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Creating legitimacy for cultured meat in Germany: The role of social cohesion Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-03 D. Weckowska, D. Weiss, V. Fiala, F. Nemeczek, F. Voss, C. Dreher
Few studies on legitimation of new technologies were able to provide insights into the longitudinal changes in legitimacy outcomes and the social dynamics that underpin such outcomes. Using a novel mixed-methods approach, combining Natural Language Processing with a qualitative text analysis, and drawing on the concept of social cohesion to investigate the social relations among actors, the study offers
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Institutional voids and business model convergence in the recycling industry Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-02 Alain Daou, Randa Salamoun, Crystel Abdallah
Considering that recycling is seldom economically viable, this study analyzes how recycling organizations perceive institutional voids and adapt their business models to propel a transition from waste crisis to establishing waste management services. The analysis is embedded in the sustainability transitions literature and is approached from an institutional void and business model lens. Qualitative
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Inertia and resistance to change in multi-actor innovation processes – Evidence from two cases in the Netherlands Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-02 Florian Goldschmeding, Véronique Vasseur, René Kemp
Existing transitions literature often highlights successful experiments for changing practices through multi-actor processes but overlooks the challenges of adjusting incumbent practices and engaging actors in reflexive learning. The current article addresses this gap through two qualitative case studies of water-related co-creation processes in the Netherlands. Each case met inertia and resistance
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Role of local governments and households in low-waste city transitions Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Ruth Lane, Annica Kronsell, David Reynolds, Rob Raven, Jo Lindsay
Local governments are placing greater requirements on households to sort and reduce their waste. The research draws on experimental governance scholarship to explore the transformative capacity of local government in low waste sustainability transitions and how this is given form through engaging households in new waste management initiatives. Australia, a high-income county with one of the highest
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Phase-outs at the edge of the world: Interconnections between energy futures and place-making in the strategic outpost Longyearbyen, Svalbard Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-24 Birgitte Nygaard
As Longyearbyen, Svalbard, embarks on a transition away from the century-long reliance on coal as the backbone of the Arctic community, existing understandings of place are destabilised. However, as an important Norwegian outpost in an increasingly tense Arctic geopolitical landscape, the phase-out transcends local visions for Longyearbyen and its new energy system. Drawing upon a mix of semi-structured
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Mnemonic agency in the Dutch energy transition to gas and electricity Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-21 Gijs ten Berge
Authors dealing with the geography of sustainability transitions argue for increasing understanding of how innovations emerge and develop on multiple scales. In this article, memory studies is adopted to research the development of technology in the energy transition to gas and electricity within, across and beyond the Dutch household.
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Transforming the food environment: An assemblage-based research approach Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-20 Marta López Cifuentes, Roberta Sonnino
Current food transition studies predominantly examine the role of food actors in challenging dominant food regimes. However, there is a notable gap in understanding changes within the spaces where individuals interact with the food system—the food environment. In this paper, we seek to support the development of a new research agenda that engages assemblage thinking with the practicalities of transformation
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Anchoring challenges through citizen participation in regional challenge-based innovation policies Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-17 Anna Butzin, Maria Rabadjieva, Judith Terstriep
This study focuses on citizen participation as a co-productive and knowledge-intensive process in innovation policies concerned with regionally anchoring grand challenges. We apply a process-tracing approach and analyse citizen participation in two regional challenge-based innovation policies in the Ruhr, Germany. Local sensemaking, problem ownership, iterations and knowledge co-production are discussed
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Deep experiments for deep transitions – low-income households as sites of participation and socio-technical change in new energy systems Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-14 Gisle Solbu, Marianne Ryghaug, Tomas M. Skjølsvold, Sara Heidenreich, Robert Næss
This paper links the literature on energy poverty and energy vulnerability with the experimental focus of current energy transition initiatives and argues for the need to expand household experimentation beyond technology adoption. Drawing on an analysis of low-income households’ energy using practices we develop a framework consisting of three key dynamics, 1) predictability – flexibility, 2) sufficiency
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Meso-institutions as systemic intermediaries in sustainable transitions governance Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-11 Adriana Marotti de Mello, Paula Sarita Bigio Schnaider, Maria Sylvia Macchione Saes, Roberta Souza-Piao, Rubens Nunes, Vivian Lara Silva
The objective of this paper is to build an integrative framework that aims to explain the specific functions of systemic intermediaries in connecting actors/ network of actors to institutions. Relying on both Sustainable Transitions Theory (STS) and New Institutional Economics (NIE), we argue that systemic intermediaries could govern this process by playing the role of meso-institutions. Empirically
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Tipping the scales of the blue transition: Framing the geography of a Norwegian seafood mission Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-08 Matthijs Mouthaan, Koen Frenken, Laura Piscicelli, Taneli Vaskelainen
Sustainability transitions and innovation policy research has studied barriers and drivers of structural change at different spatial scales, but lacks attention to how scale is discursively invoked by actors to (il)legitimate such change. We address this gap by studying how scale is framed by actors in the issue field of a Norwegian seafood mission. Based on an analysis of ‘scale frames’ in consultation
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Households in energy transition: Promoting household energy-sufficient routines via app-based peer-to-peer interaction Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-07 Francesca Cellina, Evelyn Lobsiger-Kägi, Devon Wemyss, Giovanni Profeta, Pasquale Granato
We engage a community of ca. 200 voluntary Swiss households in using a smartphone app that provides energy consumption feedback and offers peer-to-peer interaction possibilities to share experiences on household routine change. Surveys prior to and three months after app use, in-app usage analytics, and analysis of in-app posts indicate that most households preferred individual-level consumption feedback:
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Framing for the protein transition: Eight pathways to foster plant-based diets through design Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-07 Anna-Louisa Peeters, Nynke Tromp, Brit M. Bulah, Monique van der Meer, Lieke van den Boom, Paul P.M. Hekkert
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Just destabilisation? Considering justice in the phase-out of peat Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-05 Annika Lonkila, Jani P. Lukkarinen, Laura van Oers, Giuseppe Feola, Minna Kaljonen
The deliberate destabilisation of regimes has gained attention in sustainability transitions scholarship regarding the urgency of transitions. However, there has been little focus on justice in deliberate destabilisation literature Without attention to justice, destabilisation policies can cause unforeseen negative social, economic, or environmental impacts. Justice has mainly been explored in terms
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Decarbonizing maritime shipping and aviation: Disruption, regime resistance and breaking through carbon lock-in and path dependency in hard-to-abate transport sectors Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Frauke Urban, Anissa Nurdiawati, Fumi Harahap, Kateryna Morozovska
Aviation and maritime shipping are hard-to-abate transport sectors that are heavily dependent on fossil fuels. They jointly account for nearly 10 % of global greenhouse gas emissions, while infrastructure and investments are locked into high-carbon pathways for decades. Fuels and technologies to decarbonize include advanced biofuels, electrofuels, hydrogen and electric propulsion. This research aims
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Mapping mental models in sustainability transitions Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-20 Karlijn L. van den Broek, Simona O. Negro, Marko P. Hekkert
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Fruta Feia cooperative: Examining the influence of income on sustainability value and agency among alternative food network consumers Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-20 Alexandra Bussler, Francesco Vittori, João Morais Mourato
Alternative Food Networks gain increasing importance in sustainability transitions of food production, retail, and consumption. This paper explores the role of AFN consumers as critical food sustainability change agents, with a special focus on low-income consumers. It challenges preconceived notions that associate sustainable living exclusively with affluent communities, highlighting the substantial
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Modes of intermediation: How intermediaries engage in advancing local bottom-up experimentation Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-11 Hella Hernberg, Sampsa Hyysalo
Intermediaries are recognized as influential actors in advancing local bottom-up experimentation and strengthening its impact on urban sustainability transitions. Recent studies have articulated intermediation by listing diverse roles and activities that intermediaries perform and by presenting theory-based typologies of different intermediaries. However, such listings and typologies fail to capture
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“Oh Yes! Net-Zero”: Sociotechnical capabilities and regional innovation systems for British industrial decarbonization Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Benjamin K. Sovacool, Kyle S. Herman, Marfuga Iskandarova, Jeremy K. Hall
Few sectors in the global economy need deep decarbonization as much as heavy industry, which is currently the largest and fastest growing source of global carbon emissions. Based on an original dataset of 111 expert interviews and 52 site visits, this paper asks: what sociotechnical pathways, capabilities, and regional innovation systems are emerging to support industrial decarbonization? It combines
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The comparative political economy of sustainability transitions: Varying obstacles, accelerants and power in national capitalisms Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Dan Bailey
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Rethinking the geography of sustainability transitions by considering human-nature connections in rural areas Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-04 Vincent Vindevoghel
Despite recent studies which emphasize the importance of human-nature connections (HNCs) in sustainability transitions, the literature on the geography of sustainability transitions focuses mainly on urban areas and transnational aspects, ignoring the role of HNCs. In this paper, we study HNCs in rural areas through a case study of the French mountains. Based on 31 interviews with local actors, the
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Identifying social tipping point through perceived peer effect Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Yuan Peng, Xuemei Bai
While recent research has advanced our conceptual understanding of social tipping points, empirical studies are called for to support and advance the theories. Here, we present a conceptual method to identify whether a tipping point exists and its possible location, in terms of peer effects on green technology adoption. This conceptualization is tested using Shanghai's adoption of electric vehicles
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Multi-system interactions and institutional work: Actor interactions at the interface of residential storage systems and electric vehicles in Germany Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-27 Andrea Käsbohrer, Teis Hansen, Hans-Martin Zademach
Multi-system interactions are receiving increasing attention within transition research. However, understanding the consequences of increasing couplings between adjacent systems for transitions requires further research. In response, this paper applies the concept of institutional work to understand the role of actors creating institutional couplings for the reconfiguration of multiple systems. We
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Towards a socio-techno-ecological approach to sustainability transitions Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-20 Johnn Andersson, Thomas Taro Lennerfors, Helena Fornstedt
The literature on sustainability transitions departs from the idea that social and environmental problems call for transformative change but employs socio-technical frameworks that treat nature as a passive context. In this paper, we argue that transitions research should adopt a socio-techno-ecological approach that accounts better for ecological elements. To take steps in this direction, we review
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Power in urban logistics: A comparative analysis of networks and policymaking in logistics sustainability governance Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-19 Subina Shrestha, Håvard Haarstad, Rafael Rosales
This article unpacks the power relations in urban logistics to understand why cities follow different policy pathways to sustainability. Drawing on the literature on power in sustainability transitions, we investigate key actors’ framings of sustainability in urban logistics and assess how they leverage their positions to pursue their framing of sustainability. We utilize a mixed-method approach, with
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Innovation policy for sustainability transitions in small economies: Energy technology innovation in Hong Kong Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Gloria Wenting Luo, Viktória Döme, Weronika Cycak, Kira JM Matus
In this paper, we analyzed Hong Kong's sustainable energy transitions innovation policy, and compared it to the policies in 11 small, high-income jurisdictions. To do this, we identified 696 innovation interventions implemented between 2008 and 2020. We classified them into 42 types of policy instruments. Then we visualized the policy mixes of the jurisdictions with the assistance of correspondence
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Decarbonising industry supply chains: Incumbent-oriented transition intermediation for industry energy transition Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Alexander Nordt, Rob Raven, Shirin Malekpour, Darren Sharp
Sustainability transitions literature has insufficiently explored the potentially constructive role of industry incumbents and transition intermediaries that cooperate with incumbents for industry energy transition. This study elaborates on transition intermediary functions by building on evidence from sectors where decarbonisation faces severe structural challenges and incumbency. An examination of
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Accelerating the sustainability transition of brown regions: Unlocking the speed factor Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Stefano Basilico, Nils Grashof
Green innovations aim to improve and reduce the environmental impact of economic activities. Thus far, research focus on the positive trajectories of green transition. Continuing in this direction we focus on brown regions (i.e. specialized in fossil-fuel technologies) and the challenges that they face to become sustainable. Taking as example German Labour Market Regions we identify brown regions and
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Fueling a net-zero future: The influence of government-funded research on climate change mitigation inventions Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-06 Jieshu Wang, José Lobo, Shade T. Shutters, Deborah Strumsky
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Sustainability against the logics of the state: Political and institutional barriers in the Chilean infrastructure sector Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-30 Denise Misleh, Juliane Dziumla, María De La Garza, Edeltraud Guenther
The state is often portrayed as a progressive entity enabling transition processes. However, this article delves into the limitations faced by state institutions, which have been identified as resistant to change and entrenched in path dependence. This article explores the political and institutional barriers that state institutions encounter when implementing sustainability approaches in the infrastructure
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Microgrids and the politics of sustainability transitions: A sociotechnical, multi-coalition perspective Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 David J. Hess
This study advances theory in the politics of sustainability transitions by 1) developing a type of sociotechnical perspective that follows politics into the details of regulatory conflict over system design, 2) analyzing transition politics as a multi-coalition policy field beyond an intra-industry challenger-incumbent relationship, and 3) showing how political conflict includes broader societal change
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Facilitating the transition to sustainable propulsion in the shipping industry: An agent-based modelling analysis of retrofitting Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Morteza Mahmoudi, Yadollah Saboohi, Jonathan Köhler
In response to growing concerns about the environmental impact of the shipping industry, this study examines the potential impacts of retrofitting on the shipping industry and the barriers and incentives that may affect the adoption of low-emission technologies. The MATISSE-SHIP agent-based model of transitions is extended to include retrofits. The results suggest that retrofitting can lead to a rapid
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Towards niche readiness: Achieving socio-economic maturity in the bottom-up transition to DC power systems Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Yannick Schöpper, Claas Digmayer, Raphaela Bartusch, Ola Ebrahim, Sarah Hermens, Razieh Nejabat, Niklas Steireif, Jannik Wendorff, Eva-Maria Jakobs, Frank Lohrberg, Reinhard Madlener, Susanne Mütze-Niewöhner, Christa Reicher, Stefan Böschen
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Implicit negotiations in niche-regime interactions: Relational aspects of agency, accountability, and anticipation in transition studies Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Renée Scharnigg
State-controlled resources are scarce but crucial for niche support and regime reproduction. Thus, both niche and regime actors are continuously seeking to influence actors holding state power to secure favorable policies and resource allocations. To further the knowledge of this process, this article presents a conceptual framework that elucidates how policies are implicitly negotiated between actors
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How do technology-inherent characteristics affect valuation processes in innovation systems? Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 5.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Churchill Agutu, Bjarne Steffen, Tobias S. Schmidt
Technology valuation processes describe how the value of an innovation is created, embedded and changed for society. They are therefore crucial to understanding a technology's speed of diffusion. Recent literature has highlighted the importance of technology-inherent characteristics for innovation processes, i.e. the creation of new technologies. However, the role of these characteristics in shaping
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Just transition out of coal-fired power: Policy lessons from Australia's automotive sector closure Environ. Innov. Soc. Transit. (IF 5.7) 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 5.7) 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 5.7) 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 5.7) 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 5.7) 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 5.7) 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 5.7) 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 5.7) 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 5.7) 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 5.7) 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 5.7) 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 5.7) 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 5.7) 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 5.7) 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 5.7) 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 5.7) 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 5.7) 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 5.7) 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 5.7) 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 5.7) 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 5.7) 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