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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Sustainability Transitions"”.
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The Window of Opportunity in Sustainability Transitions: An empirical investigation
… aims to understand how actors can accelerate transitions to more sustainable, low- carbon-emitting electrochemical technologies for a segment of the chemical industry. The multi-level perspective (MLP) is the principal theory in sustainability transitions research (STR) that explains how …
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Systemic Design & Sustainability Transitions. Co-designing policy interventions within the Tourism ecosystem.
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Understanding the influence of individual behaviour and social networks in sustainability transitions.
A behaviour change towards sustainable food purchasing behaviour is crucially necessary for the survival of the planet. This thesis applied a mixed method approach, combining results from a cross-sectional online survey (N=474), a lab experiment (N=134) and an agent-based model (ABM) to explore how …
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Spiritual Agency and Sustainability Transitions Exploring Food Practices in Three Hare Krishna Eco-Communities
… between spirituality, diet and system-wide Sustainability Transitions. The pivotal role of food in greenhouse gas emissions is widely acknowledged across disciplines, yet it is under-researched by Sustainability Transitions scholars. Likewise, while sustainable diets comprising of less meat …
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Beyond the Spectacle? A Comparative Critique of the ‘Green Consumer’ in Global and Chinese Sustainability Transitions
… are created and governed in discourses of sustainability transitions. As sustainable development increases its reach as a mode of governance, covering new spaces and even ‘future generations’, it brings into being new kinds of citizens: the ‘sustainable consumer’. This citizen type …
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Sustainability Transitions in Rural Tourism Travel: Understanding Global South Travel Practices using the case of Bali Island, Indonesia
… Beyond environmental issues, rural travel sustainability transition in the Global South also includes social challenges. Social concerns arise responding to new environmentally sustainable transport initiatives as residents benefit from facilitating less sustainable travel modes. Hence, …
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Using a diagnostic indicator assessment to understand sustainability transitions towards Water Sensitive Urban Design in the City of Cape Town
… of development on the surrounding environment. Sustainability transitions literature recognises that infrastructure and technologies are highly intertwined with institutional structures, regulations and social practices. For this reason, transitions towards sustainability-oriented technologies …
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Energy and sustainability transitions: the case of community renewables for off-grid rural electrification in Nigeria with emphasis on Shape community project.
… renewable energy in accelerating energy and sustainability transition in off-grid communities in Nigeria. The exploratory research adopted a case study approach and analysed renewable energy planning and decision-making processes as well as evaluated the development of a pilot community …
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The Governance of Anaerobic Digestion in the United Kingdom: Insights from England and Scotland
… attention within the academic literature on sustainability transitions. However, extant theory in this respect has focused on managing and steering sustainability transitions, while referring mainly to the national level of government, so it has yet to account for the role of local …
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Strategic identities amid institutional complexity: A multi-level analysis of values and temporality in organizational contexts
… navigate institutional complexity during sustainability transitions through the strategic management of their identity. Here, the transformation of core modes of production and consumption to enable systems’ indefinite continuation exposes complex, dynamic, and multi-dimensional processes. …
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The Role of Sustainable Intrapreneurs in Promoting Corporate Sustainability and Sustainability reporting in India
… sustainable intrapreneurs in advancing corporate sustainability and sustainability reporting in Indian organisations. Using qualitative case studies, the research explores how intrapreneurs promote sustainability initiatives and how contextual factors, including sociocultural norms, institutional …
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The Role of the Automotive Industry in the Context of Sustainable Transitions
… the automotive industry's role in facilitating sustainability transitions, with a particular emphasis on the contribution of Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and their impact on these transitions. The study adopts a systems-engineering perspective, integrating insights from transition …
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Digital Transformation and Organizational Sustainability: a Multi-level Analysis
The Doctoral Thesis explores Sustainability-oriented transition mechanisms (SUS) at different levels of analysis (Country, inter-organizational, and organizational levels). The focus of the study is Digital Transformation (DT) and the Collaborative (multi-stakeholder) (COL) dimensions. By …
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The role and function of systemic collaborative intermediary organisations in urban system change: the case of the Cities Alliance
… precondition for transitioning towards urban sustainability. It builds on the argument that systems change when developments at all levels link up and reinforce each other. The study contributes to the literature on the role of cross-sector collaboration and collaborative governance in urban …
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Urban Mobility Transitions: Governing through Experimentation in Bristol and New York City
Transitions away from car-dominance is one of the key debates in urban research, policy and practice today. Car-free public space, cycling and convenient public transport services are widely seen as desirable, yet the reconfiguration of our streets and transport networks has been incremental. This …
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Smarter cities: socio-technical innovation towards sustainable urban transport futures. The case of re-establishing utility cycling as a mainstream mode in London
Cities globally face pressing sustainability challenges. This is particularly evident in the urban transport sector, where increasing and increasingly frictionless mobility continues to be promoted as a key driver of local economic growth and development. There is, therefore, increasing pressure to …
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Smarter cities: socio-technical innovation towards sustainable urban transport futures - the case of re-establishing utility cycling as a mainstream mode in London
Cities globally face pressing sustainability challenges. This is particularly evident in the urban transport sector, where increasing and increasingly frictionless mobility continues to be promoted as a key driver of local economic growth and development. There is, therefore, increasing pressure to …
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The Political Economy of Energy Transition in Mexico
… and their behaviour. From the literature, energy transitions at a national level must understand evolution in energy markets, energy policies and energy technologies. Thus, the research explored a conceptual framework that consider the three perspectives (techno-economic, socio-technical and …
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Opening innovation procurement
… pursue secondary goals such as innovation and sustainability. However, an increased focus on core competences has reduced internal capacity to conduct innovation procurement at a time when doing so is even more critical for cost-savings and growth. This dissertation examines open innovation for …
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Navigating (un)sustainability: (non)consumption of second-hand fashion across countries and generations
Despite growing discourse on sustainability, there is no evidence that the fashion sector is in a meaningful phase of sustainable transformation, underscoring the critical need to navigate the (un)sustainability paradox of the fashion system and advance knowledge that supports sustainability …
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