Evaluating sustainability transitions pathways: bridging analytical approaches to address governance challenges

The authors argue that current analytical approaches to sustainable transitions provide incomplete pictures, necessitating an integration strategy based on alignment, bridging, and iteration to better support decision-makers.

• The authors contend that quantitative systems modelling, socio-technical transition analysis, and initiative-based learning each offer a "partial and incomplete picture", which limits the quality and utility of the insights provided for policy and practice.
• To address governance challenges, the paper suggests an integration strategy centered on "alignment, bridging, and iteration", requiring a structured dialogue between practitioners of the three analytical approaches.
• Practical integration of these approaches should focus on three areas of joint knowledge production: the definition of common analytical or governance problems, the establishment of "shared concepts (boundary objects)", and the creation of "operational bridging devices" such as metrics and pathways evaluation.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2015). Evaluating sustainability transitions pathways: bridging analytical approaches to address governance challenges. https://www.sei.org/publications/evaluating-sustainability-transitions-pathways-bridging-analytical-approaches-to-address-governance-challenges/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Evaluating sustainability transitions pathways: bridging analytical approaches to address governance challenges. 2015. https://www.sei.org/publications/evaluating-sustainability-transitions-pathways-bridging-analytical-approaches-to-address-governance-challenges/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2015evaluating, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Evaluating sustainability transitions pathways: bridging analytical approaches to address governance challenges}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2015}, month = oct, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/evaluating-sustainability-transitions-pathways-bridging-analytical-approaches-to-address-governance-challenges/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }