This article proposes the field perspective as an approach to explain organizational activities in sustainability transitions. It applies this framework analyze environmental of religious organizations Germany and Switzerland. Religious can become important actors transitions by drawing on their extensive membership, material resources, public visibility. However, date, research is dearth about...

CLIMATE POLICY 8 (2008) 170–182 Risk minimization is no longer a sufficient survival strategy for poor people in livelihood systems increasingly exposed to frequent extreme events. This calls for comprehensive adaptation to climate change. Within the climate change regime, adaptation is as central as mitigation but needs to be much more explicitly addressed at local, national and global levels....

The interplay of human actions and natural processes over varied spatial and temporal scales can result in abrupt transitions between contrasting land surface states. Understanding these transitions is a key goal of sustainability science because they can represent abrupt losses of natural capital. This paper recognizes flickering between alternate land surface states in advance of threshold ch...

Because of the urgency accelerating transitions, we examine emerging understanding concept ‘disruption’ in context sustainability transition studies to critically assess its value, pitfalls and potentials. By conducting a qualitative systematic review 47 articles, analyse how disruption is seen this literature what being disrupted. We identify four non-technical dimensions disruption, adding ‘b...