The multi-level perspective on sustainability transitions: Responses to seven criticisms

FW Geels - Environmental innovation and societal transitions, 2011 - Elsevier
The multi-level perspective (MLP) has emerged as a fruitful middle-range framework for
analysing socio-technical transitions to sustainability. The MLP also received constructive …

The future in sustainability transitions-Interlinkages between the multi-level perspective and futures studies

N Vähäkari, V Lauttamäki, P Tapio, M Ahvenainen… - Futures, 2020 - Elsevier
This article focuses on a key framework of sustainability transition studies, the multi-level
perspective on socio-technical transitions (MLP), and its potential and relationships with …

Socio-technical transitions to sustainability: a review of criticisms and elaborations of the Multi-Level Perspective

FW Geels - Current opinion in environmental sustainability, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•Socio-technical transitions research is a distinctive approach within the
sustainability transformations debate.•Socio-technical transitions involve multi-dimensional …

Ontologies, socio-technical transitions (to sustainability), and the multi-level perspective

FW Geels - Research policy, 2010 - Elsevier
Using recent criticisms and suggestions regarding the multi-level perspective as stepping
stones, the article aims to enhance the reflexivity in transition debates regarding social …

Socio-technical transitions to sustainability

FW Geels - Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental …, 2018 - oxfordre.com
Addressing persistent environmental problems such as climate change or biodiversity loss
requires shifts to new kinds of energy, mobility, housing, and agro-food systems. These shifts …

System interactions in socio-technical transitions: Extending the multi-level perspective

G Papachristos, A Sofianos, E Adamides - Environmental Innovation and …, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper discusses contextual issues in sociotechnical systems and transitions under the
Multi Level Perspective (MLP). It emphasises inter system interactions, for which a typology …

Sustainability transitions in developing countries: Major insights and their implications for research and policy

AJ Wieczorek - Environmental Science & Policy, 2018 - Elsevier
Sustainability transitions literature is a rapidly growing and influential field of research. It
argues for a radical change of systems providing human needs. Being triggered by the …

Connecting the multi-level-perspective and social practice approach for sustainable transitions

M Keller, M Sahakian, LF Hirt - Environmental Innovation and Societal …, 2022 - Elsevier
The increasing sense of urgency to transition to sustainable modes of consumption and
production requires an understanding of social problem framings and processes of change …

Evaluating sustainability transitions pathways: Bridging analytical approaches to address governance challenges

B Turnheim, F Berkhout, F Geels, A Hof… - Global environmental …, 2015 - Elsevier
The paper sets out a proposal for bridging and linking three approaches to the analysis of
transitions to sustainable and low-carbon societies: quantitative systems modelling; socio …

Up, down, round and round: connecting regimes and practices in innovation for sustainability

T Hargreaves, N Longhurst… - … and Planning A, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
The multilevel perspective and social practice theory have emerged as competing
approaches for understanding the complexity of sociotechnical change. The relationship …