Understanding transition pathways by bridging modelling, transition and practice-based studies
This paper presents an introduction to and overview of the papers in this Special Issue of Technological Forecasting & Social Change on ‘Transition Pathways’ is presented. Each of these papers are an output of the PATHWAYS project (EC FP7-funded, 2013–2017) which looked into ways to integrate alternative approaches for analysing sustainability transitions.
Methods to bridge across scenario-modelling, socio-technical transition, and practice-based action research approaches were implemented in eight empirical and modelling studies reported here. A variety of approaches to bridging emerged in practice, with differing methodological strategies employed, analysing transitions processes across different sectors, at a range of scales, and separately, comparatively or in a fully integrated way.
This paper suggests a framework for understanding different approaches to bridging and shows how policy- and decision-making can be enriched by theoretically- and empirically-informed bridging approaches to transitions analysis.
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- Publication title
- Understanding transition pathways by bridging modelling, transition and practice-based studies
- Publication subtitle
- Editorial introduction to the special issue
- Publication date
- 3 June 2019
- Publication type
- Article
- Publication language
- English
- Magazine
- Technological Forecasting and Social Change
- Product number
- 3831
