The article describes the field of sustainability transitions research, which emerged in the
past two decades in the context of a growing scientific and public interest in large-scale …

This article explores the role of actors and agency in the literature on sustainability
transitions. We reviewed 386 journal articles on transition management and sustainability …

Resolving the grand challenges and wicked problems of the Anthropocene will require
skillfully combining a broad range of knowledge and understandings—both scientific and …

There is emerging agreement that sustainability challenges require new ways of knowledge
production and decision-making. One key aspect of sustainability science, therefore, is the …

This article introduces transition management as a new governance approach for
sustainable development. Sustainable development is used here as a common notion …

In this article we present four different cases of transition management in which we were
involved over the past 10 years. Transition management was developed in the course of this …

In 2001, transition management was introduced into the science-policy debate around
sustainable development and complex societal issues. Transition management (TM) at that …

Climate change places major transformational demands on modern societies.
Transformations require the capacity to collectively envision and meaningfully debate …

Our paper addresses the inherent tension between the open-ended and uncertain process
of sustainability transitions and the ambition for governing such a process. We explore this …

Purpose Future scenarios and life cycle assessment (LCA) are powerful tools that can
provide early sustainability assessments of novel products, technologies and systems. The …