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Socio-technical lock-in as alignment process: tracing the joint development of pesticide dependency and vegetable production in Senegal (1900–2024) 作为协调过程的社会技术锁定：追踪塞内加尔农药依赖和蔬菜生产的共同发展（1900-2024）

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-04-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.100997

Baptiste Gaillard , Bruno Turnheim , Raphaël Belmin , Allison Marie Loconto

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Household innovation and agency in sustainability transitions 可持续转型中的家庭创新和代理

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.100987

Rob Raven , Ruth Lane , Jo Lindsay , David Reynolds , Annica Kronsell

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Advertising restrictions and sustainability transitions: does banning advertising of harmful products induce innovation in benign alternatives? 广告限制和可持续性转变：禁止有害产品的广告会导致良性替代品的创新吗？

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-04-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101000

Will McDowall , Anders Underthun

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Mapping the hydrogen transition in the Netherlands: A sociotechnical multi-system event sequence analysis 绘制荷兰氢过渡：社会技术多系统事件序列分析

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-04-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.100999

Jerico Bakhuis , Jaco Quist , Wouter Spekkink , Thomas Hoppe , Kornelis Blok

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Tracing actors in policy mixes for transitions: A systematic literature review and insights from policy process theories 追踪过渡政策混合中的行为者：系统的文献回顾和政策过程理论的见解

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-04-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.100989

Marie Oltmer , Meike Löhr

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“We can’t do everything ourselves.” - Why Swedish municipalities deliberately promote intermediation in governing the mobility transition "我们不能事必躬亲"。- 瑞典市政当局为何在管理流动性转型时有意促进中介服务

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-04-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.100998

Max Halbwachs , Sara Gustafsson , Eugenia Perez Vico

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Can the digital economy effectively contribute to the clean energy transition? A provincial panel data analysis from China 数字经济能否有效促进清洁能源转型？来自中国的省级面板数据分析

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-05-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101003

Yuanyuan Hao , Yifei Jiang , Shuang Lv

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Modelling potential environmental and socio-economic impacts of substituting livestock meat with soy-based meat substitutes 模拟用大豆基肉类替代品替代牲畜肉类的潜在环境和社会经济影响

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-05-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101006

Navoda Nirmani Liyana Pathirana , Ya-Yen Sun , Mengyu Li , Takako Wakiyama , Futu Faturay , Shweta Singh , Miriam Chrisandra Stevens , David Raubenheimer , Manfred Lenzen

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The role of households in sustainability transitions: An infrastructural inversion 家庭在可持续性转型中的作用：基础设施倒置

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.100984

Thomas Berker, Thomas Edward Sutcliffe, Ruth Woods

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Analyzing policy mixes for the circular economy transition: The case of recycled plastics in electronics 循环经济转型的政策组合分析：以电子产品中的再生塑料为例

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.100982

David Pfeffer, Denise Reike, Catharina R. Bening

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