Diversity in transition: Is transitions research diverse (enough)?

Preuß, Sabine; Galvin, Ray; Ghosh, Bipashyee; Dütschke, Elisabeth

doi:10.1016/j.eist.2021.10.020

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“…This underpins the need for thorough analyses of innovations' outcomes. In this regard, further elaboration should take into consideration approaches other than the ample research-and underlying understandings of sustainability innovations-from the Global North, which we have largely used in our research (Nesari et al 2022;Preuß et al 2021;Ramos-Mejía et al 2018).…”

Section: A Generic Systems-based Frameworkmentioning

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Sustainability innovations: a proposal for an analytical framework and its empirical application in the Schorfheide-Chorin Biosphere Reserve

Dabard

Mann

2022

Sustain Sci

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Sustainability innovations influence societal transformations through the development of new products, processes, organizations, behaviors or values. Although various research approaches have tackled technological innovations in the last few decades, the specificities and enabling conditions of individual sustainability innovations remain rather unknown. We therefore propose an analytical framework, built on learning from the social–ecological systems and transitions literature. The sustainability innovation framework features four dimensions: context, actors, process and outcomes, which are detailed in 31 variables. We use the sustainability innovation framework to analyze two case studies selected in the Schorfheide-Chorin Biosphere Reserve, Germany. The first refers to technological and organizational innovation in mobility, while the second relates to social and organizational innovation in agriculture. As a result, we highlight commonalities and differences in enabling conditions and variables between the two cases, which underpin the influence of trust, commitment, resource availability, experimenting, learning, advocating, and cooperating for innovation development. The cases further demonstrate that sustainability innovations develop as bundles of interdependent, entangled novelties, due to their disruptive character. Their specificity thereby resides in positive outcomes in terms of social–ecological integrity and equity. This study therefore contributes to transitions studies via a detailed characterization of sustainability innovations and of their outcomes, as well as through a generic synthesis of variables into an analytical framework that is applicable to a large and diverse range of individual sustainability innovations. Further empirical studies should test these findings in other contexts, to pinpoint generic innovation development patterns and to develop a typology of sustainability innovation archetypes.

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Section: A Generic Systems-based Frameworkmentioning

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Sustainability innovations: a proposal for an analytical framework and its empirical application in the Schorfheide-Chorin Biosphere Reserve

Dabard

Mann

2022

Sustain Sci

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“…The topic of just transitions in general and inclusive transitions in particular is gaining momentum in the transitions research agenda [1][2][3]. Yet, practical projects on energy transitions often still neglect societal problems such as energy poverty and unequal pay structures between women and men, including in the energy sector [4].…”

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Diversifying power in action: A socio-psychological approach to inclusive energy transition experiments

Bögel

Trenks

Upham

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Energy Research & Social Science

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“…Further, the socio-technical literature on transitions taking place in areas in the Global South has suggested that rather than just transferring frameworks developed in the Global North, such as the sociotechnical perspective, to the Global South, such frameworks should be refined to better account for contextual differences, including the roles of informal economies, splintered regimes, and multi-scalar insecurities, that strongly inform individuals' daily practices and general transition pathways (U. E. Hansen et al 2018;Ramos-Mejía, Franco-Garcia, and Jauregui-Becker 2018;Wieczorek 2018;Ghosh et al 2021). The findings of the thesis support this and point to several ways in which the refinement of socio-technical sustainability transitions theories for application in non-Global North contexts could serve to make analyses more sensitive to nuanced differences in transitions in these contexts, and hence increase the theory's explanatory capacities (U. E. Hansen et al 2018;Ghosh et al 2021;Preuß et al 2021). Two sets of changes are identified in the literature and corroborated by the findings of this thesis:…”

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“…Second, changes in agri-food systems are inherently cultural processes, yet an engagement with culture is generally absent in the field of sustainability transitions (Meek 2016). Incorporating understandings of the interplays between culture, different worldviews, and sustainability is crucial to ensuring that sustainability transitions processes will be viable in the future and across broad segments of the global population (Ghosh et al 2021;Preuß et al 2021). Cultural aspects could be better included in socio-technical frameworks through e.g.…”

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Growing agroecology in Nicaragua : Towards a multi-scale perspective on agroecological transitions

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Preface and acknowledgementsThis PhD is much more than just a thesis and much more than the sum of its parts (a sentiment I assume many doctoral researchers share). My PhD journey has been amazing and unexpected, a wild ride and an incredibly steep learning curve, and has changed my life for the better in both the professional and personal senses. It has been very challenging and also extraordinarily fun. Although I cherish the experiences and memories made with many people whom I met over the course of my research -e.g. farmers and research assistants I was lucky enough to work with -several individuals have played especially important roles in the journey that led to the experience of researching and writing this dissertation.Tanya Kerssen, through working together at a restaurant, our friendship grew and you were the first person who got me interested in agriculture and food systems -who knew that was my passion! A special thank you for opening my eyes to ethical issues and problems of justice and equity in food production and consumption.Katrin Winkler, by taking a chance on me in supporting my admittance to the University of Hohenheim's MSc program in 'Environmental Protection and Agricultural Food Production', you paved the way for my being able to do a PhD. Without you, none of this would have been possible -thank you for believing in me back then! Onno Giller, I am everlastingly grateful that you were my colleague and friend during the first times at KTI, in Wageningen, and in Nicaragua -thank you for showing me the ropes both inside and outside of WUR! Marijn Poortvliet, thank you for your inspiration for, and your long-lasting support through, the many revisions and iterations of the interminable gender chapter! Thanks for opening my eyes to, and helping me wade my way through, new (to me) questions of social psychology and quantitative data analyses.Wendy Godek, I cannot thank you enough for your mentorship, your friendship, your advice, and our many hours of intense conversation on topics both professional and personal. I'm really excited for our future collaborations. Thank you for continuing to inpire me! Laurens Klerkx, you brought me on board at KTI after mentoring me in the final round of the Erasmus Mundus PhD competition. You were the best first supervisor I can imagine -always supportive, always reachable, always with an idea when I had a question about my research, but also always critical, challenging me to solidify my argumentation, read more, think more intensely or connectively about issues, and really straightforward. I have passed on two bits of your wonderfully idiosyncratic advice to many others: "No one cares about your PhD but you" and "Kill your darlings" (in reference to paper-writing). This and much other advice, challenge, and inspiration from you have helped me to become a solid and very happy scientist. Thank you! Mi amor Diego Gutierrez Sanchez, gracias totales a vos por tu amistad, por enseñarme la vida salvaje en Managua, por nuestros viajes juntos cruzando Nicaragua y, cla...

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Diversity in transition: Is transitions research diverse (enough)?

Cited by 9 publications

References 22 publications

Sustainability innovations: a proposal for an analytical framework and its empirical application in the Schorfheide-Chorin Biosphere Reserve

Sustainability innovations: a proposal for an analytical framework and its empirical application in the Schorfheide-Chorin Biosphere Reserve

Diversifying power in action: A socio-psychological approach to inclusive energy transition experiments

Growing agroecology in Nicaragua : Towards a multi-scale perspective on agroecological transitions

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