The politics of sustainability transitions

By F. Avelino, John Grin, Bonno Pel, S. Jhagroe. 2016

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Sustainability transitions are processes of fundamental social change in response to societal challenges (Grin, Rotmans, & Schot, 2010; Markard, Raven, & Truffer, 2012). They reflect a particular diagnosis of persistent social problems, in which persistence is attributed to the path dependency of dominant practices and structures (i.e. ‘regimes’), whose resolution requires structural and long-term change. By their nature, transitions involve politics in the broadest sense of the word, that is, as

Subfields: Global and Planetary Change

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Bringing Technology into Social-Ecological Systems Research—Motivations for a Socio-Technical-Ecological Systems Approach (2019, background): “This critique is possibly more pronounced in the STS field [72,100,101].”
Sustainability transitions in the developing world: Challenges of socio-technical transformations unfolding in contexts of poverty (2017, background): “Despite increasing attention to the politics of these transformations in the transitions literature (Avelino et al., 2016; Geels, 2014; Hoffman, 2013), a closer look at the questions which transformation?, for whom?, and by whom?”
Conceptual and empirical advances in analysing policy mixes for energy transitions (2017, background): “It is therefore closely linked to the literature on the messy, everyday politics of policy processes [58] and the emerging literature on the politics of transition processes [14,88].”
New energy spaces: Towards a geographical political economy of energy transition (2020, background): “…of energy transition Socio-technical approaches to energy transition have had something of a political blind spot, downplaying the plural, messy and contested character of its constituent processes (Ahlborg, 2018; Avelino et al., 2016; Baker et al., 2014; Meadowcroft, 2009; Newell, 2019).”