This paper presents a project that explores how different values and lifestyle choices are related to sustainable practices. The goal has been to develop an understanding of both complexity in people’s everyday practices as well as patterns in this complexity to be used when designing interventions for sustainable lifestyles. In the project, we have used a mixed methods approach in order to dev...

Sustainability transitions are shaped by specific dynamics, dependencies, and influences among the actors elements that part of system. Systemic constellations as a social science research method can offer tangible visualizations such system dynamics thereby extract valuable, often hidden knowledge for research. This article builds on two online exploratory constellation exercises about sustain...

The transitions literature emphasises the role of niches, defined as a protective space for pathbreaking innovations. Surprisingly, the concept of protection has not been systematically interrogated. Our analysis identifies protection as having three functions in wider transition processes: shielding, nurturing and empowerment. Empowerment, understood as processes and mechanisms that contribute...

The need for sustainability transitions is widely recognised, along with a concurrent the evolution of knowledge systems to inform more effective policy action. Although there are many new targets relating net zero emissions and other challenges, cities, regional national governments struggling rapidly develop transformational policies achieve them. As academics practitioners who work at scienc...

In the ten years of Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions publishing, sustainability transitions have advanced in some domains, yet much remains to be done. For these grow, accelerate, socially accepted, our research needs integrate an intentionally spatial whole systems justice approach that combines thinking from justice, geography existing transition frameworks. Using examples en...

Abstract Transitions towards sustainability are urgently needed to address the environmental and societal challenges on a global scale. This article applies concepts used in transition studies – niches experiments architectural practice. A tentative evaluative scheme developed by Luederitz et al [1] is this analyse how practice can be designed performed support transitions built environment. Th...

• We demonstrate the potential of computational linguistics for transitions research. Energy related plenary talks in Finnish parliament from 2008 to 2020 are analysed. Right-wing populists accentuate domestic policy and personal liberty. Greens discuss renewable energy forms nuclear energy. New methods can show how transition outlooks change with political realignments. This viewpoint exemplif...

Sustainability transitions require changing many behaviours embedded in production and consumption systems. Simultaneously, behavioural public policy is now a significant site of research-policy translation globally. Links between behaviour system change are underdeveloped both fields. Systematic review current literature found ∼4% papers focused on behaviour. Two prominent perspectives (labell...