The notion of 'transformations towards sustainability'takes an increasingly central position in
global sustainability research and policy discourse in recent years. Governance and politics …

Concerns about the negative impacts of productivist agriculture have led to the emergence
of two forms of ecological modernisation of agriculture. The first, efficiency-substitution …

Scholars and policy makers are becoming increasingly interested in the processes that lead
to transformations toward sustainability. We explored how resilience thinking, and a stronger …

This article explores the role of actors and agency in the literature on sustainability
transitions. We reviewed 386 journal articles on transition management and sustainability …

The mainstream literature sees participation as critical to deepening democracy and solving
complex environmental issues. An explosion of literature on public participation has …

There is a growing imperative for responses to climate change to go beyond incremental
adjustments, aiming instead for society‐wide transformation. In this context, sociotechnical …

Technology-focused literature on socio-technical transitions shares some of the complex
systems sensibilities of social-ecological systems research. We contend that the sharing of …

The challenges of sustainable development (and climate change and peak oil, in particular)
demand system-wide transformations in sociotechnical systems of provision. An academic …

New concepts of governance take account of ambivalence, uncertainty, and distributed
power in societal change. They aim for reflexivity regarding the limits of prognostic …

With its origins in systems ecology and emerging interest in the inter-disciplinary
examination of the governance of linked social-ecological systems, social-ecological …