System Innovation and the Transition to Sustainability: Theory, Evidence and Policy

Contents......Page 6
Figures......Page 8
Tables......Page 9
Contributors......Page 10
Abbreviations......Page 16
Preface......Page 19
Foreword......Page 21
1. General introduction: system innovation and transitions to sustainability......Page 22
PART I Theoretical explorations of transitions......Page 38
3. Socio-technological regimes and transition contexts......Page 69
4. Sustainability, system innovation and the laundry......Page 97
PART II Empirical examples of transitions......Page 116
5. A transition towards sustainability in the Swiss agri-food chain (1970–2000): using and improving the multi-level perspective......Page 118
6. The transition from coal to gas: radical change of the Dutch gas system......Page 135
PART III Transition policy......Page 156
7. Managing the transition to sustainable mobility......Page 158
8. Getting through the ‘twilight zone’: managing transitions through process-based, horizontal and interactive governance......Page 189
9. Bounded socio-technical experiments (BSTEs): higher order learning for transitions towards sustainable mobility......Page 212
PART IV Tools for transition policy and empirical illustrations......Page 242
10. Managing experiments for transition: examples of societal embedding in energy and health care sectors......Page 244
11. Socio-technical scenarios as a tool for transition policy: an example from the traffic and transport domain......Page 272
12. Conclusion. Transitions to sustainability: lessons learned and remaining challenges......Page 303
Index......Page 322