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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Avelino, Flor
• Grin, John
• Pel, Bonno
• Jhagroe, Shivant

Titel

The politics of sustainability transitions

Ist Teil von

• Journal of environmental policy & planning, 2016-10, Vol.18 (5), p.557-567

Ort / Verlag

Abingdon: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Sustainability transitions are processes of fundamental social change in response to societal challenges (Grin, Rotmans, & Schot, 2010 Grin, J., Rotmans, J., & Schot, J. (2010). Transitions to sustainable development; new directions in the study of long term transformative change. New York, NY: Routledge.; Markard, Raven, & Truffer, 2012 Markard, J., Raven, R., & Truffer, B. (2012). Sustainability transitions: An emerging field of research and its prospects. Research Policy, 41(6), 955–967. 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. This Special Issue reasserts the conviction that the politics of transitions warrants more attention and better integration in transition studies and the papers included here cast light on this from a range of fields, including environmental governance, post-structuralist theories, political science, policy studies, science and technology studies, practice theory, political geography and development studies. This disciplinary diversity reflects the wide-ranging and multi-dimensional nature of transitions, anchored in the concept of politics typified by Leftwich.