We live in a time of great uncertainty about the future. Those heady days of the late twentieth
century, when the end of the Cold War seemed to be ushering in a new and more optimistic …

Abstract The case for Universal Basic Services (UBS) is a recent idea that is attracting much
attention. This article provides a theoretical justification for extending the delivery of public …

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the deep links and fragility of economic, health and
social systems. Discussions of reconstruction include renewed interest in moving beyond …

To confront the climate crisis requires fundamental system change in order to break the
convention of relentless economic exploitation of nature. In this Special Issue we extend …

Thinking about regional industrial policies remains focused on the supply of new
knowledge, and recently also on grand challenges and missions, but takes problems …

After more than thirty years of post-war relative regional convergence, since the 1980s
geographical inequalities in economic prosperity and social conditions have widened again …

Experiments in socio-ecological change—real-world laboratories, testbeds, niche
experiments, grassroots innovations—are commonly framed as a particularly promising way …

This paper explores the role of food policy at the municipal level because municipalities are
assuming a growing role in food policy reform. Adopting a framework of municipal …

The twenty-first century has seen major challenges to freedom and democracy.
Authoritarianism is on the rise and democracy is in retreat. Some promote individualism and …

In transformation research of late, accounts on the relation between intentionality and
agency on the one hand, and the more routinised and structured side of social co-existence …