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 …

Interrogating 'effectiveness' in climate change adaptation: 11 guiding principles for adaptation research and practice

C Singh, S Iyer, MG New, R Few… - Climate and …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The Paris Agreement articulates a global goal on adaptation, which aims to
ensure an 'adequate adaptation response'to the 'global temperature goal', and requires …

A systematic global stocktake of evidence on human adaptation to climate change

L Berrang-Ford, AR Siders, A Lesnikowski… - Nature climate …, 2021 - nature.com
Assessing global progress on human adaptation to climate change is an urgent priority.
Although the literature on adaptation to climate change is rapidly expanding, little is known …

A relational turn for sustainability science? Relational thinking, leverage points and transformations

S West, LJ Haider, S Stålhammar… - Ecosystems and …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
In sustainability science, revising the paradigms that separate humans from nature is
considered a powerful 'leverage point'in pursuit of transformations. The coupled social …

[HTML][HTML] Transformative adaptation to climate change for sustainable social-ecological systems

G Fedele, CI Donatti, CA Harvey, L Hannah… - Environmental Science & …, 2019 - Elsevier
In the face of major shifts in temperature and precipitation, some conventional strategies that
help people to cope or incrementally adapt to climate change may become inappropriate in …

[HTML][HTML] Is the 1.5 C target possible? Exploring the three spheres of transformation

K O'Brien - Current opinion in environmental sustainability, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•Decarbonization pathways and roadmaps treat climate change as a technical
problem.•Climate change is an adaptive challenge with practical, political and personal …

Sustainable development, poverty eradication and reducing inequalities

J Roy, P Tscharket, H Waisman, S Abdul Halim… - 2018 - centaur.reading.ac.uk
This chapter takes sustainable development as the starting point and focus for analysis. It
considers the broad and multifaceted bi-directional interplay between sustainable …

Power in sustainability transitions: Analysing power and (dis) empowerment in transformative change towards sustainability

F Avelino - Environmental Policy and Governance, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
This paper conceptualizes power and empowerment in the context of sustainability
transitions and transition governance. The field of transition studies has been critically …

A perspective on radical transformations to sustainability: resistances, movements and alternatives

L Temper, M Walter, I Rodriguez, A Kothari… - Sustainability Science, 2018 - Springer
A transformation to sustainability calls for radical and systemic societal shifts. Yet what this
entails in practice and who the agents of this radical transformation are require further …

Just urban futures? Exploring equity in “100 Resilient Cities”

J Fitzgibbons, CL Mitchell - World development, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and associated Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs) view resilience, sustainability, and social equity as being …