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Economic development, environmental challenges & the interests of future generations: Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen’s advice revisited 经济发展、环境挑战和子孙后代的利益：尼古拉斯·乔治斯库-罗根的建议重新审视

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2026.101103

Jan Fagerberg

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Institutional activism within the local state: exploring ambitions for deep transformation in Amsterdam 地方政府内的制度行动主义：探索阿姆斯特丹深度转型的雄心

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101092

Line Kvartborg Vestergaard , Benedikt Schmid

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Enacting justice in food systems transitions: A critical lens on governance, power and participation 在粮食系统转型中实现正义：从关键角度审视治理、权力和参与

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101087

Marta López Cifuentes , Guilherme Raj , Roberta Sonnino , Ferne Edwards

{"title":"Enacting justice in food systems transitions: A critical lens on governance, power and participation","authors":"Marta López Cifuentes , Guilherme Raj , Roberta Sonnino , Ferne Edwards","doi":"10.1016/j.eist.2025.101087","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eist.2025.101087","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Food systems are characterised by persistent injustices – from exploitative labour and unequal access to healthy food to disproportionate environmental burdens on marginalised communities. These injustices have spurred diverse conceptual frameworks (e.g., food democracy, food sovereignty, food justice), resulting in a fragmented debate around justice that tends to conceptualise it as an ideal outcome, rather than as a process. In this paper, we introduce the concept of “just sustainability transitions” to integrate distributive, recognitive and procedural dimensions of justice within a dynamic, process-oriented approach to food governance. Focusing on Food Policy Networks (FPNs) – i.e., multi‐stakeholder networks operating at the intersection of policy and practice – we conducted 67 semi‐structured interviews across varied institutional and cultural contexts and examined how justice is negotiated, enacted and transformed in everyday governance. Our analysis reveals that distributive justice often remains aspirational rather than structurally embedded, whereas recognitive and procedural justice are pursued unevenly due to local power asymmetries and institutional cultures. Within these constraints, emergent practices – such as reconfigured leadership models and enhanced participatory mechanisms – illustrate how actors experiment with redistributing power and reimagining inclusion. These practices suggest that power redistribution should be understood not merely as a democratic outcome, but as a precondition for achieving meaningful and equitable participation. By framing justice as a plural, contested and evolving process, this study bridges fragmented discourses of justice in food systems research and positions participatory governance platforms such as FPNs as sites where “justice‐in‐the‐making” unfolds.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54294,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions","volume":"59 ","pages":"Article 101087"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145685602","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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More than just transition: Uncovering heterogeneous socio-economic outcomes of climate policies 不仅仅是转型：揭示气候政策的异质性社会经济后果

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101096

Valeria Costantini , Elena Paglialunga , Angela Zanoni

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How to scale beyond the niche? Fitting versus transforming strategies of grassroots initiatives and their impact on sustainability transitions 如何超越利基市场？基层倡议的适应与转变策略及其对可持续性转型的影响

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101058

P.M. Bögel , A. Böckmann , P. Upham , N. Braum , K. Augenstein , A. Möller

{"title":"How to scale beyond the niche? Fitting versus transforming strategies of grassroots initiatives and their impact on sustainability transitions","authors":"P.M. Bögel , A. Böckmann , P. Upham , N. Braum , K. Augenstein , A. Möller","doi":"10.1016/j.eist.2025.101058","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eist.2025.101058","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The question of how to increase the impact of grassroots initiatives via their scaling from niche to regime level is a key issue in transition studies. We add to the debate by analysing how organisational identities of energy cooperatives influence their scaling strategies. For this purpose, we use an explorative, qualitative research approach, conducted in collaboration with a federation of cooperatives in Germany. We identify several different identity types for the energy cooperatives studied (Classic GIs, Intermediary, Pragmatic, Tech drivers, & Economic-socials), observing that different identity types are associated with whether cooperatives pursue fit-and-conform or stretch-and-transform pathways. The findings are positioned in relation to broader debate on niche-regime dynamics. Namely, we highlight how the heterogeneity of types implies a need for nuance when thinking about scaling pathways. Our findings challenge simplistic policy narratives that prioritize expansion and instead call for nuanced support attuned to identity, agency and socio-spatial contexts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54294,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions","volume":"58 ","pages":"Article 101058"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145684641","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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Incorporating insights from global production network and value chain research into the sustainability transitions field 将全球生产网络和价值链研究的见解纳入可持续转型领域

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101094

Oliver Bugge Hunt , Kristoffer Marslev , Markus Steen , Teis Hansen , Ulrich Elmer Hansen

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Twin transition trade based on multi-dimensional economic complexity 基于多维经济复杂性的孪生转口贸易

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2026.101102

María de las Mercedes Menéndez

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Interweaving systems, embedding practices: Multi-system practice constellations in just sustainability transitions 交织系统，嵌入实践：可持续转型中的多系统实践星座

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2026.101107

Astrid Krisch , Christina Lampl , Andrea Schmidt , Ernest Aigner

{"title":"Interweaving systems, embedding practices: Multi-system practice constellations in just sustainability transitions","authors":"Astrid Krisch , Christina Lampl , Andrea Schmidt , Ernest Aigner","doi":"10.1016/j.eist.2026.101107","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eist.2026.101107","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Urgent climate action and sustainability transitions remain insufficient, with escalating climate change impacts on human and environmental health disproportionately affecting vulnerable populations. Dominant frameworks in transition research often sideline the lived experiences and adaptive practices of these non-elite actors. This paper argues for a shift in perspective by introducing multi-system practice constellations as interconnected bundles of everyday practices that occur across provisioning systems, including mobility, housing, and food. Through a synthesis of systems thinking and praxeological approaches, we explore how social practices interact with ecological, technological, and institutional dynamics in co-evolving, uneven ways. Drawing on persona-based vignettes from an exploratory study in Austria, we examine how vulnerable population groups perform practices including cycling, heating, and food shopping, revealing four recurring interaction modes: contesting, adjusting, reconfiguring, and converging. These constellations expose how transitions are already being negotiated in daily life, not as innovations per se, but as precarious improvisations shaped by structural constraints and fragile agency. We conclude that understanding transitions through the lens of multi-system practice constellations offers a more equitable and grounded pathway toward just sustainability transitions that accounts for who is left out, what is taken for granted, and where systemic change is most urgently needed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54294,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions","volume":"59 ","pages":"Article 101107"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146173629","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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(Il)Legitimation of renewable energy projects – Legitimacy gaps in socio-technical transitions and actor responses （二）可再生能源项目的合法性——社会技术转型中的合法性差距和行动者的反应

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101097

Tamara Schnell, Jannika Mattes

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Rivalry or mutualism? Cross-regional dynamics of China’s wind and photovoltaic power technology diffusion 竞争还是互惠？中国风电和光伏发电技术扩散的跨区域动态

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2026.101106

Bai-Chen Xie , Zhong-Tian Xu , Bless Kofi Edziah , Jian Su

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