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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 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Pub Date : 2025-06-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101021

Amelie Bennich

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.

随着人们对所谓的“双转型”（即可持续发展和数字化发展的交集）的兴趣日益浓厚，数字化已成为转型领域的一个感兴趣的话题。然而，尽管最近取得了进展，但该领域的数字化研究在概念和经验上仍然很狭隘。这一观点建立在之前呼吁转型学者更密切关注数字化的基础上，但主张在研究数字化的方式上提高多样性、创造性和清晰度。报告特别提出了三个主要的推进建议。首先，转型学者应该更批判性地接触数字化文献，以更好地理清数字现象的本质。其次，他们应该在发展对数字化的系统理解方面发挥主导作用，解决更广泛的数字化文献中的空白。最后，他们应该利用数字现象的概念灵活性来产生丰富过渡研究的新颖见解。数字化与可持续性之间的关系复杂而模糊，需要广泛的实证和理论方法来充分把握它们之间的相互联系。

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Interactions between Sustainability assessment and Sustainability transitions research: The benefits of combining approaches 可持续性评估与可持续性转型研究的相互作用：方法结合的益处

IF 5.7 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Pub Date : 2025-06-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101019

Axel Lindfors, Wisdom Kanda, Marcus Gustafsson, Stefan Anderberg

This article explored opportunities and benefits of combining insights from sustainability assessment and sustainability transitions research. First, an overview of both research areas regarding their key ontological, epistemological, and methodological assumptions is presented. Second, an analysis of what benefits both areas may bring to the another was conducted. Finally, a synthesis was done based on recent literature in the cross-section between the two areas of research. The overview showed that there are fundamental differences between the two research areas, such as in how sustainability is conceptualized, regarding what knowledge is needed to achieve sustainability, and in the units and levels of analysis applied. Despite this, several ways in which interaction between the two areas and cross-pollination of results could be beneficial was shown. Finally, it is argued that a multi-disciplinary approach—where theories and methods are combined sequentially or in parallel—is preferred from a practical perspective.

本文探讨了将可持续性评估和可持续性转型研究的见解结合起来的机会和好处。首先，对这两个研究领域的关键本体论、认识论和方法论假设进行概述。其次，分析了这两个领域可能给另一个领域带来的好处。最后，根据两个研究领域之间的横截面的最新文献进行了综合。概述表明，两个研究领域之间存在根本差异，例如如何概念化可持续性，关于实现可持续性需要哪些知识，以及应用的分析单位和水平。尽管如此，这两个领域之间的相互作用和结果的交叉授粉可能是有益的。最后，从实践的角度来看，理论和方法顺序或并行结合的多学科方法是优选的。

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Corrigendum to “Initiating social tipping dynamics in energy transitions: A novel analytical approach for exploring feedback loops and intervention points” [Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 56, 2025, 1-21] “在能源转型中启动社会引爆动态：一种探索反馈回路和干预点的新分析方法”[j] .环境创新与社会转型，56,2025,1-21。

IF 6.1 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Pub Date : 2025-05-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101009

Jair K.E.K. Campfens , Mert Duygan , Claudia R. Binder

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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 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Pub Date : 2025-05-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101011

Aikaterini Argyrou, Nicolas Chevrollier, Jeroen Veldman

Grand societal challenges ask that we speed up transformations in markets towards sustainability. Speeding up market transformations in sustainability transitions is determined in part by the way in which law and legal institutions enable or obstruct these transformations. We investigate the role of law and organizations in relation to market transformation in sustainability transitions. We introduce legal institutionalism to discern different understandings of the role of law as a barrier or a driver in market transformation. Under legal institutionalism, we elaborate on two ontological perspectives, namely the materialist transaction cost approach, and the alternative normative culturalist approach to investigate the behavioral assumptions of market actors in relation to law and organizations as well as of respective barriers and drivers in sustainability transitions.

巨大的社会挑战要求我们加快市场向可持续性的转变。在可持续性转型中加快市场转型，部分取决于法律和法律机构如何促进或阻碍这些转型。我们研究了法律和组织在可持续性转型中与市场转型相关的作用。我们引入法律制度主义，以辨别对法律在市场转型中作为障碍或驱动力的作用的不同理解。在法律制度主义下，我们阐述了两种本体论视角，即唯物主义交易成本方法和另类规范文化主义方法，以研究市场参与者在法律和组织方面的行为假设，以及各自在可持续性转型中的障碍和驱动因素。

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Incumbent firms in sustainability transitions – Different conceptions, heterogeneous roles and ideal types 可持续性转型中的在位企业——不同概念、异质角色和理想类型

IF 5.7 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Pub Date : 2025-05-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101010

Gregor Kungl

This paper gives an overview of the state of research on the role of incumbent firms in emission-intensive economic sectors (energy supply, transportation, food supply and processing industries) in sustainability transition processes. On the basis of a systematic review of 174 case studies, the paper comes to two conclusions: Firstly, there is a lack of clear definitions and therefore some conceptual confusion regarding the question of what is actually meant by an incumbent. Secondly, the roles of incumbent firms in transition processes are usually heterogeneous, multidimensional, temporally variable and ambiguous in their implications for the transition process. On this basis, the paper makes two conceptual contributions. Firstly, it offers a (new) definition of the term “incumbent firm” that is tailored to transition research and addresses previous conceptual ambiguities. Secondly, it formulates six ideal types of incumbent firms in sustainability transition processes that go beyond dichotomous role attributions and do justice to the ambiguity and temporal dynamics of the activities of incumbents.

本文概述了排放密集型经济部门（能源供应、运输、食品供应和加工业）现有企业在可持续转型过程中的作用的研究现状。在对174个案例研究进行系统审查的基础上，本文得出了两个结论：首先，关于任职者的实际含义的问题缺乏明确的定义，因此存在一些概念上的混淆。其次，现有企业在转型过程中的角色通常是异质的、多维的、在时间上是可变的，对转型过程的影响是模糊的。在此基础上，本文做出了两个概念性贡献。首先，它提供了“在位企业”一词的（新）定义，该定义是为转型研究量身定制的，并解决了先前概念上的歧义。其次，在可持续性转型过程中，它提出了六种理想的在位企业类型，这些类型超越了二分角色归因，并公正地对待在位企业活动的模糊性和时间动态。

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Beyond temporary measures: How experiential learning in street experiments shapes urban mobility transitions 超越临时措施：街头实验中的体验式学习如何塑造城市交通转型

IF 5.7 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Pub Date : 2025-05-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101007

Kristen J. Zhao , Guibo Sun

Tactical urbanism aims to rapidly transform urban environments through iterative experimentation. However, we know little about how learning shapes the long-term effectiveness and transformative potential of these interventions. This paper examines the role of local government implementers’ learning in sustaining tactical urbanism practices, specifically through the lens of street experiments implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using experiential learning theory as a conceptual framework, we conducted and analysed interviews with 40 government representatives associated with 28 street experiments across 21 cities globally. Our analysis reveals three distinct learning processes among the implementers, arranged progressively: (1) implement and execute, (2) experiment and perpetuate, and (3) experiment and conceptualise. While implementers engaging primarily in the first two processes demonstrated responsiveness by leveraging tactical urbanism during systemic disruptions, they rarely generated transferable knowledge or sustained transformative impacts. By contrast, implementers who adopted the third approach – experiment and conceptualise – actively reflected on and generalised their experiences, leading to deeper learning and structural changes. These implementers effectively harnessed street experiments as catalysts for broader urban mobility transitions. By providing empirical evidence from diverse global contexts, this study advances our understanding of how learning processes influence the development of tactical urbanism projects. These insights could assist urban practitioners in seeking to embed meaningful, lasting change in urban mobility through iterative experimentation.

战术城市主义旨在通过反复实验快速改变城市环境。然而，我们对学习如何影响这些干预措施的长期有效性和变革潜力知之甚少。本文特别通过2019冠状病毒病大流行期间实施的街头实验，考察了地方政府实施者在维持战术城市主义实践中的学习作用。以体验式学习理论为概念框架，我们对全球21个城市的28个街头实验相关的40位政府代表进行了访谈并进行了分析。我们的分析揭示了实施者之间三个不同的学习过程，按顺序排列：(1)实施和执行，(2)实验和延续，(3)实验和概念化。虽然主要参与前两个过程的实施者通过在系统性中断期间利用战术城市主义表现出响应能力，但他们很少产生可转移的知识或持续的变革影响。相比之下，采用第三种方法（实验和概念化）的实施者积极反思和概括他们的经验，从而导致更深层次的学习和结构变化。这些实施者有效地利用街道试验作为更广泛的城市交通转型的催化剂。通过提供来自不同全球背景的经验证据，本研究促进了我们对学习过程如何影响战术城市主义项目发展的理解。这些见解可以帮助城市实践者通过反复的实验，寻求在城市交通中嵌入有意义的、持久的变化。

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The potential of international institutions to foster transitions. The example of the Global Stocktake under the Paris Agreement 国际机构促进转型的潜力。《巴黎协定》下全球盘点的例子

IF 5.7 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Pub Date : 2025-05-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101005

Wolfgang Obergassel , Christiane Beuermann , Carsten Elsner , Heleen de Coninck

Socio-technical transitions literature has so far engaged very little with the question of how international institutions could foster transitions. Conversely, international climate policy literature shows gaps in engaging with transformational change. To address these gaps, this article analyses the potential of the first Global Stocktake (GST) under the Paris Agreement to foster transitions. The article first develops a novel conceptual framework for how international institutions can promote transitions. On this basis, the article synthesises recommendations for the GST outcome from literature and the GST process and compares them with the actual outcome. The article finds that the GST sent important signals and fostered knowledge and learning on key aspects of low-emission transitions. However, it mostly focused on energy systems and failed to establish mechanisms and resources to promote actual implementation.

迄今为止，关于社会技术转型的文献很少涉及国际机构如何促进转型的问题。相反，国际气候政策文献显示，在参与转型变革方面存在差距。为了解决这些差距，本文分析了《巴黎协定》下第一次全球盘点（GST）在促进转型方面的潜力。本文首先就国际机构如何促进转型提出了一个新的概念框架。在此基础上，本文综合了文献和GST过程对GST结果的建议，并与实际结果进行了比较。文章发现，消费税发出了重要的信号，并促进了对低排放转型关键方面的认识和学习。然而，它主要侧重于能源系统，未能建立促进实际实施的机制和资源。

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Blurred powers, multiple agencies, and discontinuous temporalities. A multi-level perspective on bottom-up innovation in agri-food policies 模糊的权力，多重的机构，不连续的时间性。农业食品政策自下而上创新的多层次视角

IF 5.7 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Pub Date : 2025-05-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101002

Daniel López-García , Tanya Zerbian , Soledad Cuevas , Ana M. Moragues-Faus

The Multi-Level Perspective (MLP) framework has been widely employed to analyze transitions in agri-food systems. However, its analytical capacity remains limited in addressing critical dimensions such as power asymmetries, territorial dynamics, and diverse forms of agency. To address these gaps, this paper integrates MLP with relational and evolutionary perspectives from social movements theory to examine 23 years of agri-food policy co-creation in València, Spain. We aim to understand (1) how do power relations influence the institutional anchoring of bottom-up policy innovations; (2) what mechanisms can grassroots movements leverage to facilitate such anchoring; and (3) what relational dynamics arise in this context. Our findings highlight how grassroots actors mobilize multiple forms of agency and operate across non-linear temporalities to advance anchoring for policy change, assuming diverse roles as intermediary actors. This relational perspective offers new insights into the strategic practices that underpin long-term sustainability transitions.

多层次视角（MLP）框架已被广泛用于分析农业粮食系统的转型。然而，在解决权力不对称、地域动态和代理形式多样化等关键方面，其分析能力仍然有限。为了解决这些差距，本文将MLP与社会运动理论的关系和进化观点结合起来，研究了西班牙瓦伦顿西亚23年的农业食品政策共同创造。我们的目标是理解(1)权力关系如何影响自下而上的政策创新的制度锚定；(2)草根运动可以利用什么机制来促进这种锚定；(3)在这种背景下会产生什么样的关系动力学。我们的研究结果强调了基层行动者如何动员多种形式的机构，并在非线性的时间跨度内运作，以推进政策变化的锚定，承担不同的中介行动者角色。这种关系视角为支持长期可持续性转型的战略实践提供了新的见解。

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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 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Pub Date : 2025-05-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2025.101004

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

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.

为全球绿色能源转型提取关键矿物的采矿业热潮正在积聚势头。然而，繁荣时期的心态可能会忽视矿山恢复的前期设计和规划的关键方面，以确保可持续的经营和关闭，并有利于采矿后的利用。澳大利亚拥有许多重要矿物的大量矿藏，作为一个突出的矿业国家，它是这一挑战的例证。与澳大利亚负面的采矿遗产相比，矿山关闭的成功案例很少，文献表明矿山恢复和关闭（MR&；C）法规可能不适合目的。我们的纵向方法确定了监管中出现关键矿山恢复和关闭概念的时间。尽管实行了财政机制、恢复标准和在某些司法管辖区实行了关闭矿山的规定，但管制是零碎的，有时是矛盾的，而政府和自我管制之间的矛盾仍然存在。矿山恢复和关闭规章的社会经济方面仍然被忽视，尽管随着关键矿物开采的加速，新的机构有望更加注意累积影响和利益攸关方的参与。

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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

IF 5.7 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Pub 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

Plant-based meat substitutes are becoming increasingly popular as an alternate protein source. We used input-output analysis to model the environmental and socio-economic impacts of transitioning to soy-based meat substitutes to replace macronutrients lost from reductions in livestock meat consumption. We found that soy-based meat substitutes can be macronutrient replacements for livestock meat with significant environmental benefits mostly in reduced biodiversity loss, land use, and agricultural water consumption. We also found that expansions of soybean cultivation are not necessary for the transition as the decrease in soybeans for animal feed is more than sufficient to meet the increase in soybeans for soy-based meat substitutes. There are small decreases in employment and income in the livestock sector from the transition, but negative socio-economic impacts are less substantial compared to the environmental benefits. Therefore, transitioning to soy-based meat substitutes could mitigate adverse environmental impacts and improve the sustainability of global food systems.

植物性肉类替代品作为替代蛋白质来源正变得越来越受欢迎。我们使用投入产出分析来模拟向大豆基肉类替代品过渡的环境和社会经济影响，以取代因减少牲畜肉类消费而损失的大量营养素。我们发现以大豆为基础的肉类替代品可以作为家畜肉类的宏量营养素替代品，具有显著的环境效益，主要是在减少生物多样性丧失、土地利用和农业用水方面。我们还发现，大豆种植的扩大对于过渡来说是不必要的，因为动物饲料中大豆的减少足以满足大豆基肉类替代品的增加。畜牧部门的就业和收入因转型而略有减少，但与环境效益相比，负面的社会经济影响并不大。因此，过渡到以大豆为基础的肉类替代品可以减轻对环境的不利影响，提高全球粮食系统的可持续性。

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