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The governance of sustainable socio-technical transitions
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In this paper, a quasi-evolutionary model of socio-technical transitions is described in which regimes face selection pressures continuously and differentiated transition contexts determine the form and direction of regime change in response to these pressures.About:
This article is published in Research Policy.The article was published on 2005-12-01. It has received 1898 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Regime change & Transition management (governance).read more
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Modelling the dynamics of technological innovation systems
B. Walrave,Rob Raven +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a system dynamics model that integrates the concept of "motors of innovation" with the notion of "transition pathways" was developed as part of the multi-level-framework thinking.
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Energy transition and city-region planning: understanding the spatial politics of systemic change
TL;DR: It is suggested that thinking through the multiple spatio-temporal rhythms of transitions could be a useful way of pushing research and policies towards more explicit, sympathetic and political engagement with the socio-spatial differentiations and inequalities inherent to place-based transformations.
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Seeds of the Future in the Present: Exploring Pathways for Navigating Towards “Good” Anthropocenes
Laura Pereira,Elena M. Bennett,Reinette Biggs,Garry D. Peterson,Timon McPhearson,Albert V. Norström,Per Olsson,Rika Preiser,Ciara Raudsepp-Hearne,Joost Vervoort +9 more
TL;DR: The seeds approach as mentioned in this paper describes how niche experiments can, over time, coalesce to shift the dominant regime onto a more sustainable trajectory, and it can help us understand how transformations occur and how to nudge them towards more sustainable trajectories.
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The theoretical foundations of sociotechnical systems change for sustainability: A systematic literature review
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a critical literature overview of the foundations of the concepts of sustainability and sociotechnical systems change, and highlight the most up-to-date theoretical developments and concomitantly pinpoint a few opportunities for future contributions that improve, refute or complement them.
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Conditions for politically accelerated transitions: Historical institutionalism, the multi-level perspective, and two historical case studies in transport and agriculture
Cameron Roberts,Frank W. Geels +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the conditions under which policymakers are likely to decisively accelerate socio-technical transitions, focusing particularly on the mechanisms of political defection from incumbent regime to niche-innovation.
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TL;DR: Giddens as mentioned in this paper has been in the forefront of developments in social theory for the past decade and outlines the distinctive position he has evolved during that period and offers a full statement of a major new perspective in social thought, a synthesis and elaboration of ideas touched on in previous works but described here for the first time in an integrated and comprehensive form.
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The Constitution of Society. Outline of the Theory of Structuration
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