New technologies are emerging at a fast pace without being properly analyzed in terms of
their social impact or adequately regulated by societies. One of the biggest potentially …

Global climate change concerns have pushed international governmental actions to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions by adopting cleaner technologies, ho** to transition to a more …

The concept of the future is re-emerging as an urgent topic on the academic agenda. In this
article, we focus on the 'politics of the future': the social processes and practices that allow …

What theories or concepts are most useful at explaining socio technical change? How can–
or cannot–these be integrated? To provide an answer, this study presents the results from …

Circular economy and degrowth offer two different imaginaries for a future social
metabolism: both seek to downscale waste and the demand for raw materials. Yet whereas …

While most studies of low-carbon transitions focus on green niche-innovations, this paper
shifts attention to the resistance by incumbent regime actors to fundamental change …

The governance of emerging science and innovation is a major challenge for contemporary
democracies. In this paper we present a framework for understanding and supporting efforts …

Current government information policies and market-based instruments aimed at influencing
the energy choices of consumers often ignore the fact that consumer behaviour is not fully …

Technological advance affects almost all areas of human life. Rapid digitization, increased
mobility, new biotechnologies, and nanotechnology deeply influence, amongst others …

Modern societies face fundamental sustainability problems in several domains, such as
energy, transportation and food.'Technological fixes' have often provided only temporary …