'Keep challenging our understanding of sustainability transitions'

Transition studies is evolving into a dynamic research field with its own institutions. There are several examples. 2009 saw the ‘First international conference on sustainability transitions' in Amsterdam and the establishment of the ‘Sustainability Transitions Research Network' (STRN). In August 2010 STRN launched its website and in September a special track on system innovations and sustainability transitions is organized at the EASST conference in Trento.

Next year the second international conference will take place in Lund and will see the launch of the new Elsevier journal ‘Environmental innovation and societal transitions'. All this is good news for the transitions research community, but the time has also come to reach out and engage with new disciplines and research communities so that the we keep challenging our thinking and understanding of sustainability transitions. Are the emerging institutions well-equipped for this task?

 

 

Bjoern Budde
27 August 12:20
I think the STRN and in particular the journal are a good start. Let's see how it develops! Maybe another important institution is emerging with this blog?
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