System transitions research and sustainable development: Challenges, progress, and prospects

Geels, Frank W.; Kern, Florian; Clark, William C.

doi:10.1073/pnas.2206230120

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Incorporating futures thinking into the theory of change: Case and lessons learned from a social enterprise intermediary in Australia

Dart,

Gates

2024

New Drctns Evaluation

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The theory of change is an established, widely used approach to guide the design, implementation, and evaluation of change initiatives. Methodological literature primarily focuses on this approach as a way to model causal processes and, secondarily, as a participatory way for groups to explore a change process. We elevate a third use of a theory of change process: to (re)imagine future possibilities. Part 1 synthesizes prior literature to contrast three purposes (i.e., explanation, exploration, and (re)imagination) and emphasizes the opportunities for forward‐looking, imaginative uses by combining the theory of change with foresight approaches. Part 2 presents a case example of a year‐long process to reimagine how to support social enterprises and women entrepreneurs in Australia and the Pacific involving iterative co‐development of a theory of change complemented by futures thinking. We close with lessons and future directions at the intersection of the theory of change and futures studies.

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Incorporating futures thinking into the theory of change: Case and lessons learned from a social enterprise intermediary in Australia

Dart,

Gates

2024

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Introduction to Rescaling Sustainability Transitions

Halonen,

Albrecht,

Kuhmonen

2024

Rescaling Sustainability Transitions

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Sustainability transitions are employed as a key conceptual term in science, politics and societal debate. While often employed as an umbrella term for policy programmes aiming for a more environmentally and socially conscious shift of societal conduct, the understanding of its variegated processes has sparked an array of epistemological frameworks and approaches. Much research is criticised for an insensitivity to the socio-spatial complexities and multi-scalar relations of becoming, and the domination of large-scale, centralised and urban-oriented socio-economic development pathways calls for a rescaling of sustainability transitions with small-scale, localised and rural approaches. The rescaling of sustainability transitions in this sense plays out in multiple forms and rather than confining research to a streamlined conceptual frame, we see value in drawing on partially aligned, yet diverse accounts. Through engagement with different shades of rescaling, this book aims at a deeper, more diverse understanding of how sustainability transitions manifest in different spatial contexts, are framed by multi-scalar and continuously shifting socio-spatial relations and the role of (contested) spatial imaginaries on the capacities for ‘rescaled’ future trajectories.

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Three archetypical governance pathways for transformative change toward sustainability

Termeer,

Dewulf,

Biesbroek

2024

Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

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System transitions research and sustainable development: Challenges, progress, and prospects

Cited by 12 publications

References 33 publications

Incorporating futures thinking into the theory of change: Case and lessons learned from a social enterprise intermediary in Australia

Incorporating futures thinking into the theory of change: Case and lessons learned from a social enterprise intermediary in Australia

Introduction to Rescaling Sustainability Transitions

Three archetypical governance pathways for transformative change toward sustainability

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