Towards a thick understanding of sustainability transitions — Linking transition management, capabilities and social practices

Felix Rauschmayer, Tom Bauler and Niko Schäpke

Ecological Economics, 2015, vol. 109, issue C, 211-221

Abstract: Scientific activities which are targeted to engage and enact on societal problems – and governance of sustainability transition itself is one such activity – are necessarily prescriptive endeavours, have to recognize the fundamental normativity of sustainable development, need to be based on a thick description of the issues to change, and should embrace the multi-dimensional importance that individuals take in societal change. Societally relevant research on and for sustainability transitions therefore has to produce systems, target, as well as transformative knowledge. The challenges of sustainability transitions require furthermore that the individual and the societal levels have to be linked as to relate individual agency and structural change within the different knowledge types.

Keywords: Transition management; Capability approach; Practice theory; Transdisciplinarity; Sustainability transitions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2014.11.018

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