Shaping Socio-ecological Transformation: the Case for Innovating Governance
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How can the dynamic relationship between society, technology and nature be understood in order to derive operational concepts for sustainable development? How can long-term structural change in socio-ecological systems be deliberatedly shaped? These are central questions for industrial transformation research. They also form the background to this paper which discusses some conceptual issues that have emerged from currently ongoing research on the transformation of utility systems in Germany.
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