On patterns and agency in transition dynamics: Some key insights from the KSI programme

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 76-81

  Grin, John ^a   Rotmans, Jan ^b   Schot, Johan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Transition politics; Transition theory; Transition trajectories

Indexed keywords

GOVERNANCE APPROACH; LEGAL SYSTEM; POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY; RESEARCH WORK; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; THEORETICAL STUDY; TYPOLOGY;

NETHERLANDS;

EID: 79957987598     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22104224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2011.04.008     Document Type: Article

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