Derk Loorbach

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce transition management as a new governance approach for sustainable development, which is used here as a common notion referring to those persistent problems in (western industrialized) societies that can only be dealt with on the very long term through specific types of network and decision-making processes.

TL;DR: Transition management aims to deal with persistent societal problems as mentioned in this paper through combining long-term envisioning, short-term experiments in a selective participatory process that supports policy integration, social learning and social innovation.

TL;DR: Transition management as mentioned in this paper is a multilevel model of governance which shapes processes of co-evolution using visions, transition experiments and cycles of learning and adaptation, which helps societies to transform themselves in a gradual, reflexive way through guided processes of variation and selection, the outcomes of which are stepping stones for further change.

TL;DR: The central question is whether social and technical innovations can reverse the trends that are challenging critical thresholds and creating tipping points in the earth system, and if not, what conditions are necessary to escape the current lock-in.

TL;DR: The field of sustainability transitions research has emerged in the past two decades in the context of a growing scientific and public interest in large-scale societal transformation toward sustainability as discussed by the authors, which has led three different types of approaches to dealing with agency in transitions: analytical, evaluative, and experimental.