In China, Shanghai often serves as a place to introduce and try out new ideas. This is certainly the case with experimental urban planning design solutions sustainability transitions. article identifies evaluates role of pilot projects demonstration zones along Huangpu River. These clusters are supposed guide regeneration former industrial waterfronts accelerate innovative development in wider ...

Environmental justice principles are widespread at national and global levels of transition discourse, but this is sometimes irrelevant to marginalized communities. To address issue, we apply environmental theory a participatory postcolonial urban case study where poverty, unemployment inequality continue incentivize unregulated exploitation vulnerable environments people. It unclear how legisl...

• We analyze the development of knowledge structure in all articles published EIST from 2011 to 2021. The new editorial strategy is formulated as well conditions for successful publication papers journal. elaborate on how this relates recent academic publishing landscape. journal Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions (EIST) recently celebrated its tenth anniversary. Its represents a...

• Different theoretical perspectives widen the understanding of agency. Institutional, socio-psychological and relational approaches are considered. Transition agency emerges from linkages between niches, regimes systems. Everyday behaviour changes contextual level socio-technical In order to maintain a habitable planet, relatively fast large-scale transitions towards sustainable societies need...

Abstract Research on sustainability and transitions is burgeoning. Some of this research helping to solve humankind’s most pressing problems. However, as provocation argues, up 50% the articles that are now being published in many interdisciplinary journals may be categorized “scholarly bullshit.” These typically engage with latest buzzword (e.g., circular economy), while contributing little no...

Based on a case study of Alexandria city, Egypt, this paper investigates the configuration, interrelation, and integration urban expansion within framework sustainability transitions to enhance performance sociotechnical transitions. It explores two main arguments; first, evaluate recent planning innovations, second, raise awareness participatory model involvement three pillars better integrate...

Sustainability is high on the political agenda, with its analytical and practical importance underscored in field of sustainability transitions. Experiments, arenas, laboratories are frequently highlighted as real-world objects to investigate place. Despite existing lab studies, attempts at comparison empirical level remain unconvincing. Here, remains oversimplified, warranting further investig...