The politics of sustainability transitions

Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 557-567

  Avelino, Flor ^a   Grin, John ^b   Pel, Bonno ^b   Jhagroe, Shivant ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84981215068     PISSN: 1523908X     EISSN: 15227200     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1523908X.2016.1216782     Document Type: Article

References (71)

1. Arts, B., & van Tatenhove, J. (2005). Policy and power: A conceptual framework between the ‘old’ and ‘new’ policy idioms. Policy Sciences, 37(3–4), 339–356.
2. Avelino, F. (2009). Empowerment and the challenge of applying transition management to ongoing projects. Policy Sciences, 42(4), 369–390.
3. Avelino, F.,& Rotmans, J. (2009). Power in transition. An interdisciplinary framework to study power in relation to structural change. European Journal of Social Theory, 12(40), 543–569.
4. Avelino, F., & Wittmayer, J. M. (2015). Shifting power relations in sustainability transitions: A multiactor perspective. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning. doi:10.1080/1523908X.2015.1112259
5. Bennett, J. (2009). Vibrant matter: A political ecology of things. Durham: Duke University Press.
6. Berkhout, F., Angel, D., & Wieczorek, A. (2009). Asian development pathways and sustainable sociotechnical regimes. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 76, 218–228.
7. Berkhout, F., Smith, A., & Stirling, A. (2004). Socio-technological regimes and transition contexts. In B. Elzen, F. W. Geels, & K. Green (Eds.), System innovation and the transition to sustainability: Theory, evidence and policy, (pp. 48–75). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
8. Bevir, M., & Rhodes, R. A. W. (2010). Interpretive political science. London: Routledge.
9. Blühdorn, I. (2013). The governance of unsustainability: Ecology and democracy after the post-democratic turn. Environmental Politics, 22(1), 16–36.
10. Castán Broto, V. (2015). Innovation territories and energy transitions: Energy, water and modernity in Spain, 1939–1975. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning. doi:10.1080/1523908X.2015.1075195
11. Chilvers, J., & Longhurst, N. (2016). Participation in transition(s): Reconceiving public engagements in energy transitions as co-produced, emergent and diverse. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning. doi:10.1080/1523908X.2015.1110483
12. Clegg, S. R. (1989). Frameworks of power. London: Sage Publications.
13. De Haan, J., & Rotmans, R. (2011). Patterns in transitions: Understanding complex chains of change. Technological Forecasting & Social Change, 78(1), 90–102.
14. Fuenfschilling, L., & Truffer, B. (2014). The structuration of socio-technical regimes—conceptual foundations from institutional theory. Research Policy, 43(4), 772–791.
15. Gaede, J., & Meadowcroft, J. (2015). A question of authenticity: Status quo bias and the International Energy Agency’s World Energy outlook. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 1–20.
16. Geels, F. W. (2002). Technological transitions as evolutionary reconfiguration processes: A multi-level perspective and a case-study. Research Policy, 31(8), 1257–1274.
17. Geels, F. W. (2005). Technological transitions and system innovations: A co-evolutionary and socio-technical analysis. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
18. Geels, F. W. (2010). Ontologies, socio-technical transitions (to sustainability), and the multi-level perspective. Research Policy, 39(4), 495–510.
19. Geels, F. W. (2014). Regime resistance against low-carbon transitions: Introducing politics and power into the multi-level perspective. Theory, Culture & Society. doi:10.1177/0263276414531627
20. Geels, F. W., & Schot, J. (2007). Typology of sociotechnical transition pathways. Research Policy, 36(3), 399–417.
21. Grin, J., Rotmans, J., & Schot, J. (2010). Transitions to sustainable development; new directions in the study of long term transformative change. New York, NY: Routledge.
22. Haugaard, M. (2012). Rethinking the four dimensions of power: Domination and empowerment. Journal of Political Power, 5(1), 33–54.
23. Hendriks, C. M. (2009). Policy design without democracy? Making democratic sense of transition management. Policy Sciences, 42(4), 341–368.
24. Hendriks, C. M., & Grin, J. (2007). Contextualizing reflexive governance: The politics of Dutch transitions to sustainability. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, 9(3–4), 333–350.
25. Hess, D. J. (2014). Sustainability transitions: A political coalition perspective. Research Policy, 43(2), 278–283.
26. Hoffman, J. (2013). Theorizing power in transition studies: The role of creativity in novel practices in structural change. Policy Sciences, 46(3), 257–275.
27. Hoffman, J., & Loeber, A. (2015). Exploring the micro-politics in transitions from a practice perspective: The case of greenhouse innovation in the Netherlands. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 1–20.
28. Jasanoff, S. (Ed.). (2004). States of knowledge: The co-production of science and the social order. London: Routledge.
29. Jhagroe, S. (2016). Urban transition politics. How struggles for sustainability are (re)making urban space (Ph.D. thesis). Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam.
30. Jørgensen, U. (2012). Mapping and navigating transitions—the multi-level perspective compared with arenas of development. Research Policy, 41, 996–1010.
31. Kenis, A., Bono, F., & Mathijs, E. (2016). Unravelling the (post-) political in Transition Management: Interrogating Pathways towards Sustainable Change. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 1–17.
32. Kern, F. (2011). Ideas, institutions, and interests: Explaining policy divergence in fostering ‘system innovations’ towards sustainability. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 29(6), 1116–1134.
33. Langhelle, O. (2000). Why ecological modernization and sustainable development should not be conflated. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, 2(4), 303–322.
34. Latour, B. (2005). From realpolitik to dingpolitik. Making things public: Atmospheres of democracy, 14–44. http://root.ps/download/estrategiasconjuntas/Bruno%20Latour%20Making%20Things%20Public.pdf
35. Leftwich, A. (1995). Bringing politics back in: Towards a model of the developmental state. Journal of Development Studies, 31(3), 400–427.
36. Leftwich, A. (1983/2010). Redefining politics. People, resources and power. New York, NY: Routledge (Republished edition of the 1983 original).
37. Loorbach, D. (2010). Transition management for sustainable development: A prescriptive, complexitybased governance framework. Governance, 23(1), 161–183.
38. Markard, J., Raven, R., & Truffer, B. (2012). Sustainability transitions: An emerging field of research and its prospects. Research Policy, 41(6), 955–967.
39. Marres, N. (2012). Material participation: Technology, the environment and everyday publics. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
40. Meadowcroft, J. (2007). Who is in charge here? Governance for sustainable development in a complex world. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 9(3), 299–314.
41. Meadowcroft, J. (2009). What about the politics? Sustainable development, transition management, and long term energy transitions. Policy Science, 42(4), 323–340.
42. Mouffe, C. (2006). On the political. London: Routledge.
43. Newig, J., Voß, J.-P., & Monstadt, J. (2007). Special issue: Governance for sustainable development: Coping with ambivalence, uncertainty and distributed power. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 9(3), 185–192.
44. Paredis, E. (2013). A winding road: Transition management, policy change and the search for sustainable development (doctoral dissertation). Ghent University.
45. Pel, B. (2012). System innovation as synchronization; innovation attempts in the Dutch traffic management field (Ph.D. thesis). Rotterdam: Erasmus University Rotterdam.
46. Pel, B. (2015). Trojan horses in transitions: A dialectical perspective on innovation ‘capture’. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, 1–19. doi:10.1080/1523908X.2015.1090903
47. Pel, B., Avelino, F. R., & Jhagroe, S. S. (in press). Critical approaches to transition theory. In H. G. Brauch, U. OswaldSpring, J. Grin, & J. Scheffran (Eds.), Handbook on sustainability transition and sustainable peace. Heidelberg: Springer.
48. Rip, A., & Kemp, R. (1998). Technological change. In S. Rayner & E. L. Malone (Eds.), Human choice and climate change (pp. 327–399). Columbus: Battelle Press.
49. Rotmans, J., & Loorbach, D. (2009). Complexity and transition management. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 13(2), 184–196.
50. Rotmans, J., & Loorbach, D. (2010). Towards a better understanding of transitions and their governance: A systemic and reflexive approach, Part II. In J. Grin, J. Rotmans & J. Schot (Eds.), Transitions to sustainable development; new directions in the study of long term transformative change. New York: Routledge.
51. Røpke, I. (2012). The unsustainable directionality of innovation – the example of the broadband transition. Research Policy, 41(9), 1631–1642.
52. Scoones, I., Leach, M., & Newell, P. (Eds.). (2015). The politics of green transformations. London: Routledge.
53. Scott, J. C. (1998). Seeing like a state: How certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
54. Scrase, I., & Smith, A. (2009). The (non-)politics of managing low carbon socio-technical transitions. Environmental Politics, 18(15), 707–726.
55. Shove, E. (2012). The shadowy side of innovation: Unmaking and sustainability. Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 24(4), 363–375.
56. Shove, E., & Walker, G. (2007). CAUTION! Transitions ahead: Politics, practice, and sustainable transition management. Environment and Planning A, 39(4), 763–770.
57. Shove, E., & Walker, G. (2008). Transition management and the politics of shape shifting. Environment and Planning A, 40, 1012–1014.
58. Smith, A. (2007). Translating sustainabilities between green niches and socio-technical regimes. Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 19(4), 427–450.
59. Smith, A., & Raven, R. (2012). What is protective space? Reconsidering niches in transitions to sustainability. Research Policy, 41, 1025–1036.
60. Smith, A., & Stirling, A. (2010). The politics of social-ecological resilience and sustainable socio-technical transitions. Ecology and Society, 15(1), 11.
61. Smith, A., & Stirling, A.W. (2007). Moving outside or inside? Objectification and reflexivity in the governance of socio-technical systems. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, 9(3–4), 351–373.
62. Späth, P., & Rohracher, H (2010). ‘Energy regions’: The transformative power of regional discourses on socio-technical futures. Research Policy, 39, 449–458.
63. Stirling, A. (2011). Pluralising progress: From integrative transitions to transformative diversity. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 1(1), 82–88.
64. Swilling, M., Musango, J., & Wakeford, J. (2015). Developmental states and sustainability transitions: Prospects of a just transition in South Africa. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning. doi:10.1080/1523908X.2015.1107716
65. Swyngedouw, E. (2010). Impossible “sustainability” and the post-political condition. In R. Krueger& D. Gibbs (Eds.), The sustainable development paradox (pp. 185–205). London: The Guilford Press.
66. Vellema, S. (2011). Transformation and sustainability in agriculture: Connecting practice with social theory. Wageningen: Wageningen Academic Publishers.
67. Voß, J. P. (2014). Performative policy studies: Realizing “transition management”. Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research, 27(4), 317–343.
68. Voß, J.-P., Smith, A., & Grin, J. (2009). Designing long-term policy: Rethinking transition management. Policy Sciences, 42(4), 275–302.
69. Walker, G., & Shove, E. (2007). Ambivalence, sustainability and the governance of socio-technical transitions. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 9(3–4), 213–225.
70. Wilson, C. A. (2000). Policy regimes and policy change. Journal of Public Policy, 20(3), 247–274.
71. Žižek, S. (2000). The ticklish subject: The absent centre of political ontology. London: Verso.