Tag: socio-technical systems
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the drivers of transition
What might it “look like” to “achieve sustainability”? It seems to me that this desirable process wouldn’t occur as a “monolithic”, simultaneous, homogenous, all-encompassing global or societal movement, but rather as the converging transitions of many, many different individual systems and sub-systems. These could be, for example, a city’s mobility system, a region’s water system,…
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the multi-level perspective in sustainability transitions
In the last couple of articles, we motivated the need to look at “sustain-ability” from a “systems” perspective. How can we use methods of science to examine a community’s water system, a city’s transport system, a country’s food system, or even the “world-system”, to understand how, why and in which specific ways unsustainable outcomes are…