Many sustainability challenges, such as contamination of air, water, and soil or climate
change, can be traced back to specific polluting substances (eg, mercury), technologies (eg …

Abstract 'Phase-out'is increasingly mobilised in research and policymaking as an approach
to catalyse the gradual decline of technologies, substances and practices that compromise …

Developing earlier work, this paper explores analytic and political implications of ideas
about direction in innovation. Unduly hidden in mainstream innovation and sustainability …

Academic and socio-political interest in sustainability transitions, which are decades-long
change processes in socio-technical systems, is rapidly increasing. To further engage with …

While transitions research has pursued a successful research agenda around how to
improve established socio-technical systems in terms of sustainability, it has missed out …

This introductory article to the special issue contributes to ongoing debates on pesticides in
agriculture by focusing on their alternatives. Through a literature review, we explore the …

Solar energy has become the world's cheapest and fastest scaling electricity source.
Multiple societal sectors are electrifying, and the scale and pace of change give some hope …

Grand sustainability challenges span multiple sectors and fields of policymaking. Novel
technologies that respond to these challenges may trigger the emergence of new policy …

In sustainability transitions research, the deliberate destabilisation of socio-technical
regimes is increasingly recognised as a central intervention point. Absent, however, are …

Researchers, policy-makers, and activists often highlight the temporal dimension of the just
energy transition. In this study, we explore the theoretical and empirical connections …