Five Challenges in the Acceleration of Sustainability Transitions
When transitions accelerate this creates new challenges for research and policy. In a new open access article, we highlight five challenges and discuss their policy implications.
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Jakob Prüss
We look into five non-exhaustive new challenges, which relate to the focal system, adjacent systems, and three essential social groups (firms, consumers, policymakers): (1) innovations in whole systems, (2) interactions with adjacent systems, (3) resistance from declining industries, (4) changes in consumer practices and routines, and (5) coordination challenges in policy and governance.
The article was co-authored by Jochen Markard, Frank W. Geels (Uni Manchester) and Rob Raven (Uni Melbourne).