In response to climate change issues, increasing numbers of vanguard projects are being established help governments achieve sustainability goals through rapid technology development. We focus on the transition intermediation literature argue that projects, as spaces, enable core and external project actors assume intermediary characteristics align, negotiate, pursue policy level beyond remit c...

Scholars have stressed the need to better understand role of learning in sustainability transitions. Even though progress has been made, there is a call for more research, both form large-scale empirical studies and theoretical clarity. Based on pragmatic theory, this paper responds by presenting results an study within context European multi-level transition-oriented project. Following analysi...

Business models direct a firm’s activity to move in coherence with the objectives of business. Current literature suggests business can act as vital forces facilitate sustainability transitions and highlights urgent research call understand role model innovations stimulating transitions. This paper addresses this need by investigating how firms create for system-level transformation towards sus...

Common-pool resources (CPRs) are critical in sustainability transitions. They often important means for environmental and societal innovation, object of unsustainable extraction governance practices. We argue why CPRs their matter transitions point to issues further research: (i) conceptualization light common-pool governance; (ii) the roles, potentials, challenges commoning practices, beyond m...

This paper advances scholarship on deliberate destabilisation for sustainability transitions. To understand how plays out in practice, the politics of such processes must be confronted. this end, we bridge research political economy transitions with recent theorisations unsustainable socio-technical regimes and propose a set analytical dimensions guiding questions study latter. The added value ...

Technology-focused literature on socio-technical transitions shares some of the complex systems sensibilities of social-ecological systems research. We contend that the sharing of lessons between these areas of study must attend particularly to the common governance challenges that confront both approaches. Here, we focus on critical experience arising from reactions to a transition management ...