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How the structural composition of sectors shapes socio-technical transitions 部门的结构构成如何影响社会技术转型

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101065

Johan Miorner , Christian Binz , Lea Fuenfschilling

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The enhancement of diffusion capabilities by transition intermediaries: A longitudinal study on the UK electrification of transport 过渡中介机构对扩散能力的增强：对英国交通电气化的纵向研究

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101062

Horacio Gonzalez

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Aligning place-making, community investment, and sustainability experiments: Ecodistricts in the Pittsburgh metro region 将场所建设、社区投资和可持续性实验结合起来：匹兹堡都市区的生态区

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101063

Sarah Evi

{"title":"Aligning place-making, community investment, and sustainability experiments: Ecodistricts in the Pittsburgh metro region","authors":"Sarah Evi","doi":"10.1016/j.eist.2025.101063","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eist.2025.101063","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Urban sustainability experiments are arising in cities worldwide to facilitate sustainability transitions. Experiments engage diverse coalitions in generating innovative solutions to on-the-ground development challenges in neighborhoods, campuses, and other districts. To interrogate experiments’ transformative potential, it is essential to unpack how they engage with uneven urban development patterns at multiple scales. Through a comparative qualitative case study of two ecodistricts in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania metropolitan region, this research engages a relational place-making lens to assess how experiments shape community investment dynamics. The analysis shows that the inclusivity of and the strength of alignments between place narratives, governance networks, and material landscapes within and beyond experiments influences how communities attract investment to sustainability projects and derive value from these investments. This highlights the importance of place-making to the embedded and multi-scalar dynamics through which experiments are mediated by and transform community investment and development patterns in cities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54294,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions","volume":"58 ","pages":"Article 101063"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145575247","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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Tracing the 'just' in just transition: conceptualizations of justice by citizens’ juries in climate policy-making 在公正过渡中追寻“公正”：气候政策制定中公民陪审团对公正的概念化

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101093

Katariina Kulha

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Labour market competences for sustainability transitions: A cross-sectoral analysis in Norway 可持续转型的劳动力市场能力：挪威的跨部门分析

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2026.101100

Håkon Endresen Normann , Markus Steen , Tuukka Mäkitie

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Transition and transformation: A cross-fertilizing approach to complement the study of systemic and sustainable changes (food system application) 过渡和转型：一种补充系统性和可持续变化研究的交叉施肥方法（粮食系统应用）

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101059

Joséphine Dalimier , Kevin Maréchal , Nicolas Dendoncker

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Reframing Green Prosperity: integrating sustainability and just transitions into Community Wealth Building 重塑绿色繁荣：将可持续性和公正转型融入社区财富建设

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101077

Max Lacey-Barnacle , Ed Atkins , Eleanor Radcliffe , Martin Boucher

{"title":"Reframing Green Prosperity: integrating sustainability and just transitions into Community Wealth Building","authors":"Max Lacey-Barnacle , Ed Atkins , Eleanor Radcliffe , Martin Boucher","doi":"10.1016/j.eist.2025.101077","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eist.2025.101077","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Community Wealth Building (CWB) has begun to ascend globally as an international policy movement promoting local economic development that advances economic democracy. However, despite the global embrace of CWB in various locations such as the USA, Canada, Australia, the Netherlands and the UK, it rarely explicitly connects to the notion of ‘Green Prosperity’ brought about by decarbonisation. As a result, CWB efforts lack explicit strategic, financial, policy and institutional engagements with core net zero legislation, approaches and actors, alongside the growing diversity of local, community and civil society organisations active in bottom-up sustainability transitions. We therefore see huge potential for more constructive and collaborative dialogue between burgeoning net zero and CWB communities, leading to more integrated research, policy and practice that supports the democratisation of just transitions. Drawing on insights from leading academic and policy research, our <em>Perspective</em> piece calls for four ways forward for CWB policy actors and advocates to integrate just transitions into CWB agendas; (1) Prioritise procedural justice through community & worker engagement in CWB & Net Zero strategies (2) Retrospectively integrate just transitions approaches into existing CWB programmes (3) Strategy alignment & working across policy silos for a just transition and (4) Involve anchor institutions and their growing networks in just transitions. Taken together, these four routes forward expand the sustainability and just transition dimensions of existing CWB principles at various scales of governance, whilst advancing CWB research and thinking into novel directions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54294,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions","volume":"59 ","pages":"Article 101077"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145791368","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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Modes and orientations of intermediation and championing: Advancing the circular transition in the textile industry 中介与倡导的模式与定位：推进纺织行业循环转型

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101071

Hella Hernberg, Kirsi Niinimäki

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The role of justice concerns in the public perception of air pollution reduction programmes: A factorial survey experiment 公众对减少空气污染方案的看法中司法问题的作用：一项析因调查实验

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2026.101105

Anna Maria Boros , Anna Małgorzata Bartczak , Ulf Liebe

{"title":"The role of justice concerns in the public perception of air pollution reduction programmes: A factorial survey experiment","authors":"Anna Maria Boros , Anna Małgorzata Bartczak , Ulf Liebe","doi":"10.1016/j.eist.2026.101105","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eist.2026.101105","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Modernization of heating systems is vital for cities struggling with severe air pollution linked to high mortality rates. For changes to be implemented effectively, any proposed recovery programmes must be considered fair and acceptable by the public. In this study, we examine individuals’ perceptions of air pollution reduction programmes in four cities in Poland, a country known for having some of the highest levels of air pollution in the European Union (EU). For this purpose, we use a factorial survey experiment (FSE) in which respondents evaluate fairness, acceptance, and their likelihood of signing a support or a protest petition with regard to policy scenarios with attributes addressing different justice dimensions (distributive, retributive, and participatory). The first three evaluations form a social acceptance index. We also investigate the impact that respondents’ socio-demographic characteristics, respiratory health, and attitudes toward altruistic punishment have on the acceptance and justice assessment of proposed changes. The results reveal that a lower, income-adjusted cost burden from an air pollution reduction programme is related to increased social acceptance. At the same time, respondents favour higher and equal fines for policy violations. This indicates a preference for an egalitarian approach (equitable distribution) to distributive justice and for equality in terms of retributive justice. Providing information about smog increases social acceptance, which highlights the importance of addressing basic pre-conditions for participatory justice. Further analysis indicates that respondents’ income, education, respiratory health, and attitudes toward altruistic punishment account for the differences in evaluations of the policy scenarios.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54294,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions","volume":"59 ","pages":"Article 101105"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146110211","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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A leverage point perspective for policymaking for circular transition - A case study of the Icelandic building industry 循环转型政策制定的杠杆点视角——冰岛建筑业案例研究

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101078

Agusta Thora Jonsdottir , Lara Johannsdottir , Brynhildur Davidsdottir , Federico Cosenz

{"title":"A leverage point perspective for policymaking for circular transition - A case study of the Icelandic building industry","authors":"Agusta Thora Jonsdottir , Lara Johannsdottir , Brynhildur Davidsdottir , Federico Cosenz","doi":"10.1016/j.eist.2025.101078","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eist.2025.101078","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals requires systemic transformation through policy reforms that enable a socio-technical transition. This study examines the Icelandic building industry, a sector of significant environmental impact that has recently published a roadmap for sustainable development. Through a case study, the research evaluates the roadmap´s transformative potential through stakeholder-driven policy formulation. The study compares the transformative potential of the roadmap's interventions with those formulated using Meadows' (1999) leverage-point framework during the agenda-setting phase (TLP framework). Its findings show that the roadmap interventions do not sufficiently address the deep leverage points required for industry-wide transition. In contrast, applying the TLP framework during agenda-setting enhances the transformative potential of proposed interventions, supporting a shift toward a circular economy. This study contributes to transition studies by applying the multi-level perspective and circular economy lens to reveal the lack of transformative policies in Iceland's building industry roadmap. It demonstrates how the TLP framework can assess policy documents, inform agenda-setting, and enhance the transformative potential of interventions. The findings provide actionable guidance for policymakers in Iceland, including developing a shared circular economy vision, shifting business attitudes, and embedding circular principles into design, infrastructure, planning, and professional training. The findings may extend beyond the Icelandic context, requiring further research to test transferability.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54294,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions","volume":"59 ","pages":"Article 101078"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145665655","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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