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Distribution of forest-based innovations across Europe 基于森林的创新在欧洲的分布

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101066

Marko Lovrić , Mario Torralba , Francesco Orsi , Davide Pettenella , Carsten Mann , Davide Geneletti , Tobias Plieninger , Eeva Primmer , Monica Hernandez-Morcillo , Bo Jellesmark Thorsen , Thomas Lundhede , Loft Lasse , Sven Wunder , Georg Winkel

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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 : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101056

Steffen Simon Bettin , Michael Thomas Dorsch

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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 : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101044

Valerio Schiaroli , Luca Fraccascia

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Building (and breaking) ties: explaining local relationships in grassroots place-making 建立（和打破）联系：解释基层场所建设中的地方关系

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2026.101101

Roman Hausmann , Andrew C. Stirling , Anne-Kathrin Schwab

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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 : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101043

Hege Hofstad , Trond Vedeld , Håvard Haarstad

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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 : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101045

Enyi Mu , Shengjun Zhu , Hantian Sheng , Canfei He

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Enacting neutrality or enabling change? The contested role of city administration in socio-ecological transformation 是保持中立还是促成变革？城市管理在社会生态转型中的争议角色

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101073

Marie Graef, Cordula Kropp

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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 : 2026-03-01 Epub 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 : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101055

Konstantinos Pantazis , Henner Busch

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Technological trajectories in the circular economy: Evidence from patent networks and patent portfolios 循环经济中的技术轨迹：来自专利网络和专利组合的证据

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101091

Enrico Alessandri , Riccardo Cappelli , Marco Cucculelli , Jasmine Mondolo

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