Given the importance of financial capital for major socio-technical transitions, a better understanding system's role in transitions is overdue. Established transition frameworks appear well-suited to that end, but more research needed exploit their potential, particularly middle-range between specific case studies individual financing challenges and broad analyses system as whole. Enhancing re...

• Transition dynamics and agency are insufficiently considered in sectors with complex configurational set-ups. We introduce the concept of contestation axis. Considerable can play out along other axes than typical niche-regime analyze waste sector Denmark. Circular economy visions trigger agentic processes between multiple socio-technical configurations. Research sustainability transitions inc...

This paper focuses on the critical role of institutional entrepreneurs’ social skills in enabling transformative change as described by Multi-Level Perspective. Understanding is crucial for developing a micro-foundational view sustainability transitions. We develop an analytical framework using multiple case study Swiss cantonal planners who acted entrepreneurs during comparable transitions int...

This paper presents a framework for analysing the different ways in which materiality impacts environmental policy and governance. It draws on notions from wider literature integrates relevant insights into theory Building key distinction between material discursive dimensions of governance, it develops concepts events dependencies. Material bring attention to linkages changes their observation...

Urban infrastructure systems have long lifespans and influence the state of the environment for extended periods of time. Processes of strategic planning for urban infrastructure are thus instrumental to materializing environmental sustainability visions. Continued investments in infrastructure with adverse environmental impacts imply that sustainability priorities are not embedded in planning ...