Governance and politics of sustainability transformations

Books

Hopkins, Rob. (2025). How to Fall in Love with the Future: A Time Traveller's Guide to Changing the World. Chelsea Green Publishing.

Wesche, Julius, & Hendriks, Abe. (Eds.). (2026). Introduction to Sustainability Transitions Research. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Open Access]

Book chapters

Herweg, Nicole, Zahariadis, Nikolaos, & Zohlnhöfer, Reimut (2023). The multiple streams framework: Foundations, refinements, and empirical applications. In Weible, Christopher (Ed.). (2023). Theories of The Policy Process. Fifth Edition. Taylor & Francis.

Hulme, Mike (2009). The Performance of Science. In Hulme, Mike (2009). Why we disagree about climate change: Understanding controversy, inaction and opportunity. Cambridge University Press.

Nohrstedt, Daniel, Ingold, Karin, Weible, Christopher, Koebele, Elizabeth, Olofsson, Kristin, Satoh, Keiichi, & Jenkins-Smith, Hank (2023). The advocacy coalition framework: Progress and emerging areas. In Weible, Christopher (Ed.). (2023). Theories of The Policy Process. Fifth Edition. Taylor & Francis.

Articles

Allen, Cameron, Malekpour, Shirin, & Mintrom, Michael (2023). Cross‐scale, cross‐level and multi‐actor governance of transformations toward the sustainable development goals: A review of common challenges and solutions. Sustainable Development, 31(3), 1250-1267.

Cornell, Sarah, Berkhout, Frans, Tuinstra, Willemijn, Tàbara, David., Jäger, Jill Chabay, Ilan, … & Van Kerkhoff, Lorrae (2013). Opening up knowledge systems for better responses to global environmental change. Environmental science & policy, 28, 60-70.

Hajer, Maarten, & Pelzer, Peter (2018). 2050 An Energetic Odyssey: Understanding ‘Techniques of Futuring’in the transition towards renewable energy. Energy Research & Social Science, 44, 222-231.

Hasselbalch, Jakob, & Larsen, Matthias (2026). Reimagining growth futures: Overcoming the false binary between green growth and degrowth. Ecological Economics, 240, 108823.

Kallis, Giorgos., Hickel, Jason, O’Neill, Daniel, Jackson, Tim, Victor, Peter, Raworth, Kate, … & Ürge-Vorsatz, Diana (2025). Post-growth: the science of wellbeing within planetary boundaries. The Lancet Planetary Health, 9(1), e62-e78.

Köhler, Jonathan, Geels, Frank, Kern, Florian., Markard, Jochen, Onsongo, Elsie, Wieczorek, Anna, . . . Wells, Peter. (2019). An agenda for sustainability transitions research: State of the art and future directions. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 31, 1-32.

Pichler, Melanie (2023). Political dimensions of social-ecological transformations: polity, politics, policy. Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, 19(1), 2222612.

Scoones, Ian, Stirling, Andrew, Abrol, Dinesh, Atela, Joanes, Charli-Joseph, Lakshmi, Eakin, Hallie, … & Yang, Lichao. (2020). Transformations to sustainability: combining structural, systemic and enabling approaches. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 42, 65-75.

Turnhout, Esther, Dewulf, Art, & Hulme, Mike (2016). What does policy-relevant global environmental knowledge do? The cases of climate and biodiversity. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 18, 65-72.