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How public policy and public salience interact with the energy transition: The case of commercial-scale battery storage adoption 公共政策和公众知名度如何与能源转型相互作用：以商业规模的电池存储采用为例

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2025-09-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101056

Steffen Simon Bettin , Michael Thomas Dorsch

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The changing role of the state: two governance models of China’s low-carbon energy transitions 国家角色的转变：中国低碳能源转型的两种治理模式

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2025-09-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101057

Kejia Yang , Kaidong Feng

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Energising the Polis? Analysing transition challenges to energy communities in Greece 振兴城邦？分析希腊能源行业面临的转型挑战

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2025-09-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101055

Konstantinos Pantazis , Henner Busch

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Driving the change: How do personal factors and socio-economic context influence electric vehicles adoption across Europe? 推动变革：个人因素和社会经济背景如何影响欧洲电动汽车的采用？

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2025-09-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101044

Valerio Schiaroli , Luca Fraccascia

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Public clients creating lead markets for innovation towards sustainability transitions: Market-shaping in the Swedish construction sector 公共客户为可持续转型的创新创造领先市场：瑞典建筑行业的市场塑造

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2025-09-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101046

Per Erik Eriksson, Johan Larsson, Erika Hedgren, Cecilia Christopher

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Configurations of leverage points for the deliberate acceleration of ideal-type transition pathways in the EU food system 配置杠杆点，有意加速欧盟食品系统的理想型转型途径

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2025-09-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101041

Tom Kiel , Jeroen J.L. Candel , Erik Mathijs , Robbert Biesbroek

{"title":"Configurations of leverage points for the deliberate acceleration of ideal-type transition pathways in the EU food system","authors":"Tom Kiel , Jeroen J.L. Candel , Erik Mathijs , Robbert Biesbroek","doi":"10.1016/j.eist.2025.101041","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eist.2025.101041","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The complexity of the EU food system poses a significant challenge to the transition towards sustainable and healthy food consumption, as interdependent factors reproduce stable social structures that resist change. The concept of leverage points (LPs) helps identify strategic intervention points to stimulate system change. However, focusing on individual LPs often entails trade-offs between transformative feasibility and depth. Moreover, existing LP approaches tend to overlook the long-term co-evolution of interrelated social structures. To address this gap, we connect LP categories to mechanisms that accelerate progress along four transition pathways that predict potential future dynamics. We apply this synthesized framework to expert focus group data, demonstrating how specific LP configurations can deliberately accelerate system transitions. Taking innovations as entry points, we identify LP configurations that support the upscaling and spreading of these innovations throughout the system. Our findings suggest that blending deep and shallow LPs may help to overcome system inertia. Nonetheless, multiple, co-existing transition pathways across diverse subsystems may be required to fully confront the scale and urgency of sustainability and health challenges in the EU food system.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54294,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions","volume":"58 ","pages":"Article 101041"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144997736","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Chasing the sun: How does policy-induced local demand promote the spatio-temporal evolution of China’s solar photovoltaic industry 追逐太阳：政策引导的地方需求如何促进中国太阳能光伏产业的时空演变

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2025-09-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101045

Enyi Mu , Shengjun Zhu , Hantian Sheng , Canfei He

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Building local sustainability: Identifying critical transformative capacities 建立地方可持续性：确定关键的变革能力

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2025-09-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101043

Hege Hofstad , Trond Vedeld , Håvard Haarstad

{"title":"Building local sustainability: Identifying critical transformative capacities","authors":"Hege Hofstad , Trond Vedeld , Håvard Haarstad","doi":"10.1016/j.eist.2025.101043","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eist.2025.101043","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article advances the conceptual understanding of transformative capacity among local sustainability actors. It constructs and empirically explores a conceptual framework that allows for a more nuanced, contextual understanding of how public, private and civic actors at the urban scale co-creatively build capacity for sustainability transformation. We start by combining emergent sections of sustainability transitions and collaborative governance literatures into a theoretical framework a) defining unique political-institutional transformation contexts and b) characterizing their situated capacity potential. The theoretical framework is further explored through comparison of 12 local government-led, market-led and civil society-led transformative initiatives at the local scale. This theoretical-empirical exploration enables us to tease out two sets of critical capacities. First, four contextual capacities; ideational, institutional, adaptive and experimental capacity. Second, two foundational capacities; holistic leadership and co-creation. They are summarized in a ‘Butterfly model of transformative capacity for sustainability’ offering a platform upon which to build new and more nuanced understanding of needed transformative capacities. In conclusion, we argue that the increasingly turbulent local, national and international context calls for even stronger leadership and co-creation capacities to dynamically adapt, innovate and transform to uphold and further develop key sustainability goals and purposes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54294,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions","volume":"58 ","pages":"Article 101043"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144934277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Ontological (in)security and sustainability transitions: A theoretical perspective and future research prospects 安全与可持续性的本体论转换：理论视角与未来研究展望

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101042

Timo von Wirth

{"title":"Ontological (in)security and sustainability transitions: A theoretical perspective and future research prospects","authors":"Timo von Wirth","doi":"10.1016/j.eist.2025.101042","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eist.2025.101042","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This perspective presents the concept of ontological (in)security as an analytical lens to better understand implications of destabilization in sustainability transitions. As an essential human condition, ontological security functions as a firewall against destabilizing dynamics. It is a distinct type of security that connects individual and collective units of analysis and has not been addressed in the context of sustainability transitions. Building upon Anthony Giddens’ definition of ontological security as a sense of stability achieved through the establishment of collective routines and self-narratives, this work aims to unveil novel perspectives for transition theory by explaining underlying mechanisms of actors’ dispositions towards fundamental change and uncertainty in transitions. The previously ignored interactions between transitions and ontological security provide explanations for agents’ emotive responses and phenomena described as transition repercussions. This perspective offers (i) a foundational set of definitions of ontological security and insecurity based on a systematic literature review, (ii) a conceptual heuristic illustrating the relational interactions between transitions and ontological (in)security, and (iii) future directions for transition research to further harness the explanatory potential of ontological (in)security.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54294,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions","volume":"57 ","pages":"Article 101042"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144921886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Maritime technology attention trends: Buzzwords, stability, and emerging patterns 海事技术关注趋势：流行语、稳定性和新兴模式

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2025-08-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101035

Mehrnaz Jalali, Alessio Tei

{"title":"Maritime technology attention trends: Buzzwords, stability, and emerging patterns","authors":"Mehrnaz Jalali, Alessio Tei","doi":"10.1016/j.eist.2025.101035","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eist.2025.101035","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper presents a systematic literature review (SLR) to differentiate between transient buzzwords and sustained technological trends in maritime technology by analyzing attention patterns over time. Using temporal data from academic publications, industry news, and EU-funded projects, we identify key trends shaping the sector’s technological discourse. Our findings indicate that alternative fuels, green propulsion, decarbonization, electrification, and automation receive sustained attention across research, policy, and industry, highlighting their long-term relevance. Artificial intelligence (AI) and smart ports demonstrate stable momentum, though policy engagement lags behind industry adoption. Green ports exhibit steady growth, reflecting challenges in infrastructure modernization. Automated identification system (AIS) Automated identification system (AIS)<span><span><sup>1</sup></span></span> remains widely discussed as an established technology rather than an emerging trend. In contrast, blockchain and internet of things (IoT) follow hype cycles, experiencing sharp attention spikes before declining. Big data and cloud computing, while still in use, have transitioned from broad discussions to specialized applications, reducing their prominence in wider discourse. Digital twins sustain research interest but face slow industry uptake, while Port Community Systems (PCS) and synchromodality display inconsistent attention patterns, suggesting early-stage development. This analysis provides insights into how maritime technologies gain and sustain attention over time, helping researchers, policymakers, and industry stakeholders distinguish between fleeting hype and transformative trends in maritime innovation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54294,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions","volume":"57 ","pages":"Article 101035"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144907773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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