Material dependencies: hidden underpinnings of sustainability transitions

K Van Assche, M Duineveld, R Beunen… - … Policy & Planning, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This paper presents a framework for analysing the different ways in which materiality
impacts environmental policy and governance. It draws on notions from the wider literature …

Silent Steering: How Public Actors Indirectly Influence Private Stakeholder Engagement

J Järvelä, VP Sorsa, A Spicer - Business & Society, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Our understanding of how public actors directly influence stakeholder engagement through
mechanisms such as regulation and licensing has been steadily improving. However, the …

Evolutionary perspectives on environmental governance: strategy and the co-construction of governance, community, and environment

R Beunen, K Van Assche, M Gruezmacher - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
The attention to sustainability transformations and related processes of learning, innovation,
and adaptation has inspired a growing interest in theories that help to grasp the processes …

Combining research methods in policy and governance: taking account of bricolage and discerning limits of modelling and simulation

K Van Assche, G Verschraegen, R Beunen… - Futures, 2023 - Elsevier
We present a perspective on combining research methods in policy and governance which
starts from an understanding of governance as the result of a double bricolage: an …

Steering in governance: Evolutionary perspectives

R Beunen, K Van Assche - Politics and Governance, 2021 - ssoar.info
Steering has negative connotations nowadays in many discussions on governance, policy,
politics and planning. The associations with the modernist state project linger on. At the …

Permanent incompleteness: Slow electricity roll-out, infrastructure practices and strategy formation in Monrovia, Liberia

PG Innis, K van Assche - Energy Research & Social Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Liberia's post-war infrastructure projects are characterised by significant delays that
confound the present and the future, but also occasion multiple possibilities. This paper …

A governability lesson for the Blue Economy: the collapse of mobile salmon aquaculture in the Norwegian coastal zone

D Jensen, SA Sønvisen, JP Johnsen - Maritime Studies, 2025 - Springer
Inspired by governability and evolutionary governance theory, this paper studies innovative
aquaculture technologies that aim to contribute to the transition toward a sustainable blue …

Rigidities in governance and transition: dependencies

K Van Assche, R Beunen… - Strategy for Sustainability …, 2024 - elgaronline.com
Governance configurations reproduce themselves and create governance paths. We know
that these paths do not allow for just any transformation; they are not entirely flexible. The …

Strategy in governance: communities and their futures reimagined and reconstructed

K Van Assche, R Beunen… - Strategy for Sustainability …, 2024 - elgaronline.com
Thinking about strategy is as old as writing about politics and military affairs and practicing
strategy as old as humanity. The theme was especially important in military writings, but it …

Basic concepts for transition map**: governance and its actors

K Van Assche, R Beunen… - Strategy for Sustainability …, 2024 - elgaronline.com
Governance is a concept that is defined and understood in various ways, generally focusing
on the system of decision-making in an organization or society and the various elements …