The most critical question for climate research is no longer about the problem, but about how
to facilitate the transformative changes necessary to avoid catastrophic climate-induced …

The article describes the field of sustainability transitions research, which emerged in the
past two decades in the context of a growing scientific and public interest in large-scale …

The impending climate emergency, the Paris agreement and Sustainable Development
Goals demand significant transformations in economies and societies. Science funders …

The domain of transition studies has been drawing more and more scholarly attention and,
as a result, its body of knowledge is rapidly growing. This raises new challenges as well as …

In sustainability science, the tension between more descriptive–analytical and more process-
oriented approaches is receiving increasing attention. The latter entails a number of roles for …

Do geopolitical conflicts matter for the environmental, social, governance (ESG) and overall
ESG performance of firms? We answer this question by studying the impact of geopolitical …

In 2001, transition management was introduced into the science-policy debate around
sustainable development and complex societal issues. Transition management (TM) at that …

The field of sustainability science aims to understand the complex and dynamic interactions
between natural and human systems in order to transform and develop these in a …

Scientific activities which are targeted to engage and enact on societal problems–and
governance of sustainability transition itself is one such activity–are necessarily prescriptive …

Despite the normative nature of sustainability, values and their role in sustainability
transformations are often discussed in vague terms, and when concrete conceptualizations …