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Workforce development in low-carbon energy transitions: The case of horizontal governance in Schleswig-Holstein (Germany) 低碳能源转型中的劳动力发展：以德国石勒苏益格-荷尔斯泰因州的横向治理为例

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101040

Tim Weishaupt

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Integrating spatial planning and energy policy in The Netherlands: challenges and lessons for societal energy transitions 整合荷兰的空间规划和能源政策：社会能源转型的挑战和教训

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101023

Henk-Jan Kooij , Martijn Gerritsen , Kristof Van Assche

{"title":"Integrating spatial planning and energy policy in The Netherlands: challenges and lessons for societal energy transitions","authors":"Henk-Jan Kooij , Martijn Gerritsen , Kristof Van Assche","doi":"10.1016/j.eist.2025.101023","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eist.2025.101023","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Despite The Netherlands' advanced spatial planning system and robust energy infrastructure, attempts to integrate energy policy and spatial planning for energy transition faced significant challenges. This paper examines these efforts and their impact on both systems within nation-wide discussions, using social systems theory to explore why a cohesive strategy failed to emerge. It draws on Luhmann’s theory of social systems and his concept of irritations, combined with a theory-informed thematic analysis, to understand the communications and perturbations between energy planning and spatial planning. The paper argues that the planning and energy systems were unable to adequately understand and coordinate with each other, partly due to the lack of a unifying perspective and the inherent tensions within each system. These challenges hindered the formulation of effective energy transition strategies on a policy level. To distinguish between the degree to which communications of energy planning organizations successfully initiated internal reflections on and revisions of spatial planning organizations’ interests, operations, and priorities, we introduced three types of perturbations, so-called ‘irritations’: <strong><em>incomprehensible, inapt</em></strong> and <strong><em>interpretive</em></strong> irritations. The Dutch experience offers broader insights into the complexities of aligning spatial planning with energy policy in the pursuit of energy transition.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54294,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions","volume":"57 ","pages":"Article 101023"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144313468","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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Academic Institutions as Innovation Intermediaries; Co-creating knowledge and building the Gujarat agroecology learning alliance (GALA) 学术机构作为创新中介共同创造知识并建立古吉拉特邦农业生态学习联盟（GALA）

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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101033

Shambu Prasad C , Deborah Dutta , Arnab Chakraborty

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Untangling digitalisation: a topic of growing relevance for transition scholars 解开数字化：一个与转型学者日益相关的话题

IF 5.7 2区经济学

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101021

Amelie Bennich

{"title":"Untangling digitalisation: a topic of growing relevance for transition scholars","authors":"Amelie Bennich","doi":"10.1016/j.eist.2025.101021","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eist.2025.101021","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>With the growing interest in so-called ‘twin transitions’, i.e. the intersection of the sustainable and digital development, digitalisation has emerged as a topic of interest within the transition field. However, despite recent advancements, research on digitalisation in this field remains conceptually and empirically narrow. This perspective builds on previous calls for transition scholars to pay closer attention to digitalisation but advocates for greater diversity, creativity, and clarity in how it is studied. In particular, it highlights three main suggestions for advancement. First, transition scholars should engage more critically with the digitalisation literature to better untangle the nature of digital phenomena. Second, they should take a leading role in developing a systemic understanding of digitalisation, addressing gaps in the broader digitalisation literature. Finally, they should leverage the conceptual flexibility of digital phenomena to generate novel insights that enrich transition studies. The relationship between digitalisation and sustainability is complex and ambiguous, requiring a broad array of empirical and theoretical approaches to fully grasp their interconnections.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54294,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions","volume":"57 ","pages":"Article 101021"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144255030","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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Territorial transformation through circular bioeconomy transitions: Multiple case studies in the agri-food waste system on Reunion Island 通过循环生物经济转型的领土转型：留尼旺岛农业食品垃圾系统的多个案例研究

IF 6.1 2区经济学

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101038

Clement Jacquet , Tiago Teixeira Da Silva Siqueira

{"title":"Territorial transformation through circular bioeconomy transitions: Multiple case studies in the agri-food waste system on Reunion Island","authors":"Clement Jacquet , Tiago Teixeira Da Silva Siqueira","doi":"10.1016/j.eist.2025.101038","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eist.2025.101038","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Circular bioeconomy is attracting increasing attention from public authorities and private stakeholders as a way to drive sustainable transitions in agri-food waste systems. The study of this concept can be particularly relevant in island contexts, which are highly dependent on external resources due to the importation of goods and services. This article analyzes the transition through a circular bioeconomy within the agri-food waste system in Reunion Island. To this end, we adopt a comprehensive approach integrating the Multi-Level Perspective (MLP) and territorial transformation frameworks. Both stakeholder perceptions of the circular bioeconomy concept and the limitations of its operationalization were analyzed, together with the diversity of circular bioeconomy innovation initiatives that have emerged and the role of public stakeholders in fostering their development. A stakeholder mapping and 44 semi-structured interviews were conducted. Analysis of the ideal dimension revealed that the reference framework surrounding the concept of circular bioeconomy remains ambiguous, particularly its implementation in the <em>territoire</em>. Analysis of the material dimension identified 40 innovation initiatives, grouped in three main categories representing the main pathways of transition: (i) replacing imported materials by local or more renewable alternatives; (ii) increasing the consumption of local food; and (iii) enhancing circularity through the expansion of organic matter recycling. Analysis of the institutional dimension highlighted the role of public action in supporting the emergence of circular bioeconomy innovation initiatives. Finally, certain stakeholders occupy privileged positions in dominant regimes positioning them as key drivers of circular bioeconomy transition on Reunion Island.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54294,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions","volume":"57 ","pages":"Article 101038"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144896391","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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Legal institutionalism and the role of law in market transformation during sustainability transitions: exploring alternative ontological perspectives 法律制度主义和法律在可持续性转型期间的市场转型中的作用：探索不同的本体论观点

IF 5.7 2区经济学

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-05-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101011

Aikaterini Argyrou, Nicolas Chevrollier, Jeroen Veldman

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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 : 2025-12-01 Epub 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":"2025-12-01","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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From commodity to commons: Understanding the transformative potential of mobility cooperatives for just sustainability transitions 从商品到公地：了解流动性合作社在可持续转型方面的变革潜力

IF 6.1 2区经济学

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101039

Emil Beemer, Gijs Diercks, Derk Loorbach

{"title":"From commodity to commons: Understanding the transformative potential of mobility cooperatives for just sustainability transitions","authors":"Emil Beemer, Gijs Diercks, Derk Loorbach","doi":"10.1016/j.eist.2025.101039","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eist.2025.101039","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Dominant approaches to mobility transitions appear unable to address persistent problems of unsustainability and injustice. However, where regime actors fail, we expect to see alternative movements developing. This paper investigates the transformative potential of one such alternative – Dutch mobility cooperatives. We draw on transitions and commons literature to understand the role of mobility cooperatives in challenging the Dutch mobility regime and contributing to just sustainability transitions. Based on a single embedded case study design of the Dutch mobility cooperative movement, our results indicate that cooperatives succeed in prefiguring an alternative system based on collective ownership, community spirit, and self-governance. However, they remain entangled with regime characteristics of commodification, an individualist car culture, and market-state governance. We contribute a conceptual framework contrasting mobility commons with the incumbent regime, a deeper understanding of mobility cooperatives and their transformative potential for just mobility transitions, and strategies to further develop this potential.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54294,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions","volume":"57 ","pages":"Article 101039"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144889135","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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Getting it right: regulating mine rehabilitation and closure in Australia for the green energy transition and critical minerals boom 正确的做法：规范澳大利亚矿山的恢复和关闭，以实现绿色能源转型和关键的矿产繁荣

IF 5.7 2区经济学

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-05-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101004

Corinne J. Unger , Jo-Anne Everingham , Carol J. Bond

{"title":"Getting it right: regulating mine rehabilitation and closure in Australia for the green energy transition and critical minerals boom","authors":"Corinne J. Unger , Jo-Anne Everingham , Carol J. Bond","doi":"10.1016/j.eist.2025.101004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eist.2025.101004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A mining boom to extract critical minerals for the global green energy transition is gathering momentum. However, a boom-time mentality may overlook key aspects of up-front design and planning for mine rehabilitation to ensure sustainable operation and closure with beneficial post-mining use. Australia has significant deposits of many critical minerals and, as a prominent mining country, exemplifies the challenge. With few mine closure success stories compared to negative mining legacies in Australia, the literature indicates that mine rehabilitation and closure (MR&C) regulation may be unfit for purpose. Our longitudinal methodology identifies when key mine rehabilitation and closure concepts emerged in regulation. Despite introducing financial mechanisms, rehabilitation standards and in some jurisdictions, mine closure requirements, regulation is fragmentated and at times contradictory, while ambivalence between government and self-regulation persists. Socio-economic aspects of mine rehabilitation and closure regulation remain neglected, though new institutions hold promise of greater attention to cumulative impacts and stakeholder participation as critical mineral extraction accelerates.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54294,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions","volume":"56 ","pages":"Article 101004"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144105430","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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Driving change? Exploring the role of socio-technical experiments in shaping autonomous mobility transitions 推动变革?探索社会技术实验在塑造自主移动转型中的作用

IF 5.7 2区经济学

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-04-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.100993

Tim Fraske , Annika Weiser , Maximilian Schrapel , Jens Schippl , Daniel J. Lang , Alexey Vinel

{"title":"Driving change? Exploring the role of socio-technical experiments in shaping autonomous mobility transitions","authors":"Tim Fraske , Annika Weiser , Maximilian Schrapel , Jens Schippl , Daniel J. Lang , Alexey Vinel","doi":"10.1016/j.eist.2025.100993","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eist.2025.100993","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This systematic literature review inquires into the role of socio-technical experiments for autonomous driving and their potential to shape mobility transitions towards sustainability. As an emerging technology in an early stage of transition, AVs are increasingly being tested in different spatial contexts with diverse actor constellations in order to enhance the technology further. This article critically examines the added value of these experiments, how they affect the scaling-up of autonomous driving, and highlights key themes that researchers and practitioners should consider when designing experiments. The most striking aspect of our sample is the lack of continuous participatory methods, as well as weak linkages to the transition literature. Reflecting upon how existing experiments link to the core characteristics of socio-technical experiments, we derive central findings for future research avenues: Scaling-up of AVs requires greater involvement of policymakers and enhanced place-specific approaches, while comprehensive co-design experimentation relies on robust, long-term research infrastructures.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54294,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions","volume":"56 ","pages":"Article 100993"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143769202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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