Sustainability transitions in consumption-production systems

FW Geels, F Kern, WC Clark - Proceedings of the National …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
The need for faster and deeper transitions toward more sustainable development pathways
is now widely recognized. How to meet that need has been at the center of a growing body …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-system dynamics and the speed of net-zero transitions: Identifying causal processes related to technologies, actors, and institutions

AD Andersen, FW Geels - Energy Research & Social Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Reaching net-zero GHG emission targets will require transitions in all socio-technical
systems, including electricity, mobility, heating, and agri-food. While most research focuses …

[HTML][HTML] Causality and explanation in socio-technical transitions research: Mobilising epistemological insights from the wider social sciences

FW Geels - Research policy, 2022 - Elsevier
In response to criticisms about the status of causal explanation in socio-technical transitions
research, this article elaborates the epistemological underpinnings of this emerging …

[HTML][HTML] A socio-technical transition perspective on positive tipping points in climate change mitigation: Analysing seven interacting feedback loops in offshore wind …

FW Geels, M Ayoub - Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper engages with climate mitigation debates on positive tipping points, which attract
increasing attention but remain divided between technological and social tipping point …

[HTML][HTML] A multi-level perspective of potential transition pathways towards cultured meat: Finnish and German political stakeholder perceptions

J Moritz, M McPartlin, HL Tuomisto, T Ryynänen - Research Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
Cellular agriculture and its products, such as cultured meat, are suggested to have the
potential to advance the sustainability of current food systems. Instead of engaging in current …

[HTML][HTML] The socio-technical dynamics of net-zero industrial megaprojects: Outside-in and inside-out analyses of the Humber industrial cluster

FW Geels, BK Sovacool, M Iskandarova - Energy Research & Social …, 2023 - Elsevier
Although energy-intensive industries are often seen as 'hard-to-decarbonise', net-zero
megaprojects for industrial clusters promise to improve the technical and economic …

[HTML][HTML] Architectural change in accelerating transitions: actor preferences, system architectures, and flexibility technologies in the German energy transition

AD Andersen, J Markard, D Bauknecht… - Energy Research & Social …, 2023 - Elsevier
Despite growing research attention to accelerating transitions, the process of acceleration is
not yet fully understood. It, for example, remains unclear whether or not acceleration …

The historical dismantling of tramways as a case of destabilisation and phase-out of established system

B Turnheim - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Addressing sustainability challenges requires fundamental transformations in electricity,
heat, mobility, and agri-food systems. To do so, research and policy efforts tend to …

[HTML][HTML] Low-carbon reorientation in a declining industry? A longitudinal analysis of coevolving contexts and company strategies in the UK steel industry (1988–2022)

FW Geels, J Gregory - Energy Research & Social Science, 2023 - Elsevier
To assess the speed and directionality of low-carbon transition processes in the UK steel
industry, this article makes a longitudinal analysis of changing external pressures and …

The unfolding low-carbon transition in the UK electricity system

PJG Pearson, J Watson - Proceedings of the National …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
The paper explores three periods in the UK electricity consumption–production system since
World War II. The first two involved the development of an increasingly centralized …