Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

Papers
(The median citation count of Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions is 6. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Regional capacity to govern the energy transition: The case of two Dutch energy regions113
From terminating to transforming: The role of phase-out in sustainability transitions59
Caring consumption and sustainability: Insights from household provisioning in the first ten years of motherhood58
Trust gaps in energy transitions: Japan’s National Deliberative Poll after Fukushima57
On digitalization and sustainability transitions56
Transformative climate resilience and sport mega-events – The case of the Australian Open56
Editorial Board55
Editorial Board51
Editorial Board51
Assessing regime destabilisation through policy change: An analysis of agricultural policy in the United Kingdom during Brexit50
Editorial Board49
Utilising law in the transition of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to a low-carbon economy48
Facilitating the transition to sustainable propulsion in the shipping industry: An agent-based modelling analysis of retrofitting48
What are the key strategies for a successful and fair energy transition for all? Multi-criteria assessment of isolated case studies in São Paulo46
Deep experiments for deep transitions – low-income households as sites of participation and socio-technical change in new energy systems45
The role of place in shaping urban transformative capacity. The case of València (Spain)42
Corrigendum to ‘Digitalization, trust, and sustainability transitions: Insights from two blockchain-based green experiments in China's electricity sector’ [Environmental Innovation and Societal Transi41
Engaging with climate adaptation in transition studies41
Knowledge and network resources in innovation system: How production contracts support strategic system building40
Too risky – The role of finance as a driver of sustainability transitions39
Modes of intermediation: How intermediaries engage in advancing local bottom-up experimentation38
Economic alterity and the green spirit of capitalism – on the pitfalls of green entrepreneurship38
Replacing meat, an easy feat? The role of strategic categorizing in the rise of meat substitutes36
Advancing the understanding of social innovation in sustainability transitions: exploring processes, politics, and policies for accelerating transitions36
Place-based and sectoral patterns in urban experimentation: Implications for deep transitions research35
Understanding the limits to forming policy-driven markets in the electricity sector34
Examining the vehicle-to-grid niche in Australia through the lens of a trial project33
Behind the scenes: Politics and pragmatism in formulating mission-oriented innovation policies in a national context32
Introduction to the special issue on just food system transition: Tackling inequalities for sustainability32
A relational approach to the role of the state in societal transitions and transformations towards sustainability32
Lessons from European transformative policies32
Creating points of opportunity in sustainability transitions: Reflective interventions in inter-organizational collaboration32
How does learning drive sustainability transitions? Perspectives, problems and prospects from a systematic literature review32
Just transitions through agroecological innovations in family farming in Guatemala: Enablers and barriers towards gender equality31
Analysing transitions in-the-making: A case study of aviation in Sweden31
Structural tensions limiting success of infrastructure upgrading: A multi-regime perspective30
Main topics in EIST during its first decade: A computational-linguistic analysis30
Innovation policy for sustainability transitions in small economies: Energy technology innovation in Hong Kong29
Steering ‘green’ innovation policy toward sustainability? Lessons from implementing EIP-AGRI in Sweden29
A spatial whole systems justice approach to sustainability transitions29
Whose transformation is this? Unpacking the ‘apparatus of capture’ in Sweden's bioeconomy29
Sustainable futures of agro-food? İzmir's sustainable agro-food transitions in the making29
Editorial Board28
Ideas behind transformative innovation policy: Economists confronting missions and sustainability transition in Finland28
Innovation studies, social innovation, and sustainability transitions research: From mutual ignorance towards an integrative perspective?27
Sustainable business model innovation and scaling through collaboration26
User innovation, niche construction and regime destabilization in heat pump transitions26
Solar business model adoption by energy incumbents: the importance of strategic fit26
Transitions as a coevolutionary process: The urban emergence of electric vehicle inventions26
Market intermediation and its embeddedness – Lessons from the Finnish energy transition25
How do incumbent companies’ heterogeneous responses affect sustainability transitions? Insights from China’s major incumbent power generators25
Functional analysis of technological innovation system with inclusion of sectoral and spatial perspectives: The case of the biogas industry in Russia25
Understanding resistance to just transition ideas in Australian coal communities25
Policy mixes for just transitions: A holistic evaluation framework24
Decarbonising industry supply chains: Incumbent-oriented transition intermediation for industry energy transition24
Modelling the macroeconomics of a ‘closing the green finance gap’ scenario for an energy transition24
Hibernation of off-grid solar e-waste in Kenya: An unintended response to an emerging waste issue24
Psychology: The missing link in transitions research24
Social enterprises towards a sustainable business system: A model of institutional dynamics23
The Role of Global Actors in Sustainability Transitions – Tracing the Emergence of a Novel Infrastructure Paradigm in the Sanitation Sector23
Colonial modernity and sustainability transitions: A conceptualisation in six dimensions23
Power to, over and with: Exploring power dynamics in social innovations in energy transitions across Europe23
The urgency of climate action and the aim for justice in energy transitions – dynamics and complexity22
Towards a socio-techno-ecological approach to sustainability transitions22
A perspective on the future of sustainability transitions research22
Trade unions’ interpretation of a just transition in a fossil fuel economy22
Scalar orientation of policies and technology legitimacy: The case of decarbonization in Norway22
Justice in transitions: Widening considerations of justice in dietary transition22
Conceptualizing market formation for transformative policy22
Connecting the multi-level-perspective and social practice approach for sustainable transitions22
Directionality in transformative innovation policy: who is giving directions?21
The ‘bioeconomics vs bioeconomy’ debate: Beyond criticism, advancing research fronts21
Editorial Board20
Food system transitions in Vietnam: The case of pork and vegetable networks20
Leaders or networkers? The role of mayors in renewable energy transition20
Learning for transitions: An experiential learning strategy for urban experiments20
Conceptualizing the democratization of innovation through transitions theory: A case study of biohacking in community science labs20
Editorial Board20
Fostering learning beyond urban experiment boundaries19
(Re)framing technology: The evolution from biogas to biomethane in Austria19
Introducing the lens of markets-in-the-making to transition studies: The case of the Danish wind power market agencement19
Just transition out of coal-fired power: Policy lessons from Australia's automotive sector closure19
Designing low carbon innovation organisations: the Energy Technologies Institute experience19
Transitions in South Korean public food procurement policy: Landscape context, institutionalization, and local agents19
Forging a sharper blade: A design science research approach for transition studies18
Tackling intersecting climate change and biodiversity emergencies: Opportunities for sustainability transitions research18
Identity in sustainability transitions: The crucial role of landscape in the Green Heart18
Transformative social innovation in, of and by the city: Beyond mission-driven policy rationales18
Sustainable market transformation: A refined framework for analyzing causal loops in transitions to sustainability18
Identifying social tipping point through perceived peer effect17
Technology diffusion and green transition support in the brick sector of Bangladesh: Why transformational change is still elusive17
The Barefoot College ‘eco-village’ approach to women's entrepreneurship in energy17
Mapping mental models in sustainability transitions17
Niches, narratives, and national policy: How India developed off-grid solar for rural electrification17
How power and politics shape niche-regime interactions: A view from the Global South16
What matters? Unlocking householders’ flexibility towards cooling automation in India16
Accelerating the deployment of SMRs in Canada: The importance of intermediaries16
Mnemonic agency in the Dutch energy transition to gas and electricity16
Navigating sustainable transition processes at the local level: The case of Energy Island Bornholm16
The changing landscape of deep transitions: Sociotechnical imprinting and chemical warfare16
Mainstreaming storylines of a social innovation: The case of energy communities in Austria16
On the gendering of the early American electric car16
A brake or an accelerator? The role of law in sustainability transitions15
Can grassroots movements in water conflicts drive socio-technical transitions in water management systems?15
Historical industrial transitions influence local sustainability planning, capability, and performance15
The emergence of a global innovation system – A case study from the urban water sector15
Cross-sector collaboration, nonprofit readiness, and sustainability transitions15
Transforming innovation policy in the context of global security15
Erratum to “Sustainability Transitions and Strategic Action Fields: A Literature Review and Discussion” Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 38, 2021, 22-33.15
Collaboration or competition? Interactions between floating and fixed-bottom offshore wind in Norway15
Fueling a net-zero future: The influence of government-funded research on climate change mitigation inventions15
Blending in, to transform the regime from within: Niche hybridisation strategies of Irish energy communities15
Discursive struggles over pesticide legitimacy in Switzerland: A news media analysis15
Alteration spaces: Charting the sustainability potential of large organizations15
Doing gender in energy communities: A gendered perspective on barriers and motivators15
Sustainability, justice and equity in food systems: Ideas and proposals in dispute in Brazil14
Creating legitimacy for cultured meat in Germany: The role of social cohesion14
The dynamics of sustainability transitions: An archetype for transformation14
Meso-institutions as systemic intermediaries in sustainable transitions governance14
Mapping the governing entities and their interactions in designing policy mixes for sustainability transitions: The case of electric vehicles in China14
Policy mixes for sustainability transitions must embrace system dynamics14
Inclusive innovation in just transitions: The case of smart local energy systems in the UK14
The geography of circularity missions: A cross-country comparison of circular economy policy approaches in the Global North and Global South14
Research frontiers for multi-system dynamics and deep transitions13
Contemporary financial capitalism and sustainability transitions in urban built environments13
Gender in sustainability transition studies: Concepts, blind spots and future orientations13
Phase-outs at the edge of the world: Interconnections between energy futures and place-making in the strategic outpost Longyearbyen, Svalbard13
Accelerating the sustainability transition of brown regions: Unlocking the speed factor13
Evaluating the global impact of low-carbon energy transitions on social equity13
E-scooter regulation: The micro-politics of market-making for micro-mobility in Bergen12
Analyzing transitions through the lens of discourse networks: Coal phase-out in Germany12
Inertia and resistance to change in multi-actor innovation processes – Evidence from two cases in the Netherlands12
Incumbency and political compromises: Opportunity or threat to sustainability transitions?12
Influence of policy discourse networks on local energy transitions12
Households in sustainability transitions: a systematic review and new research avenues12
Applying policy mix thinking to social innovation: from experimentation to socio-technical change11
Beyond the North-South divide: The political economy and multi-level governance of international low-carbon technology transfer in China11
Compatibility in cross-city innovation transfer: Importance of existing local experiments11
De-centering transitions: Low-carbon innovation from the peripheries11
Place-based allocation of R&D funding: Directing the German innovation system for hydrogen technologies in space11
Sustainability-oriented labs in transitions: An empirically grounded typology11
Lewin's field theory as a lens for understanding incumbent actors’ agency in sustainability transitions11
‘Fit-to-transform’: An institutional perspective on the empowerment of clothing product-service systems11
Editorial Board11
Editorial Board11
Towards a multi-scalar perspective on transition trajectories11
How global regimes diffuse in space – Explaining a missed transition in San Diego's water sector11
Actors in multi-sector transitions - discourse analysis on hydrogen in Germany11
Editorial Board11
Incentivizing a regime change in Dutch agriculture11
Incorporating social mechanisms in energy decarbonisation modelling10
Earth system interventions as technologies of the Anthropocene10
Is social cohesion decisive for energy cooperatives existence? A quantitative analysis10
How ‘within-regime’ tensions can create windows of opportunity for new mobility services10
Editorial Board10
Disrupting transitions: Qualitatively modelling the impact of Covid-19 on UK food and mobility provision10
The space, the time, and the money. Wind energy politics in East Germany10
Coping with transition pain: An emotions perspective on phase-outs in sustainability transitions9
Farming on the margins: Just transition and the resilience of peripheral farms9
The role of livelihoods in agrifood sustainability transitions9
Spheres of transformation: exploring personal, political and practical drivers of farmer agency and behaviour change in the Netherlands9
Three perspectives on regime destabilisation governance: A metatheoretical analysis of German pesticide policy9
The transformative capacity of public sector organisations in sustainability transitions9
Households in energy transition: Promoting household energy-sufficient routines via app-based peer-to-peer interaction9
A discourse analysis of yellow-vest resistance against carbon taxes9
Looking beyond the hype: Conditions affecting the promise of behaviour change apps as social innovations for low-carbon transitions9
Response to “Missions and mission-oriented innovation policy for sustainability: A review and critical reflection”9
Incumbent entry modes and entry timing in sustainable niches: The plant-based protein transition in the United States, Netherlands, and United Kingdom9
Unravelling institutional work patterns: Planning offshore wind farms in contested space9
Resilience perspectives in sustainability transitions research: A systematic literature review8
Megaprojects: Examining their governance and sociotechnical transitions dynamics8
From niche support to system building—Perceptions of the transformation potential of policy measures on packaging reuse8
Policy entrepreneurs in green building transitions: The role of interurban coalitions8
Agency, directionality, location and the geographic situatedness of knowledge making: The politics of framing in innovation research on energy8
Towards new perspectives of stakeholder engagement in sustainability transitions: Bringing the supranational level into view8
Decarbonizing maritime shipping and aviation: Disruption, regime resistance and breaking through carbon lock-in and path dependency in hard-to-abate transport sectors8
Exploring the functions of place-based intermediation in the governance of sustainability transitions8
The influence of disruptive events on energy-related household practices: Results of a longitudinal study in the Netherlands8
Hard coal phase-out and the labour market transition pathways: The case of Poland8
Municipal experimental policy engagements in the built environment8
The impact of supply structure on solar home system installations in rural off-grid areas8
Axes of contestation in sustainability transitions8
Limits of the corporate-led market approach to off-grid energy access: A review8
Home field advantage: examining incumbency reorientation dynamics in low-carbon transitions7
How user innovation communities contribute to sustainability transitions. An exploration of three online communities7
A field perspective on sustainability transitions: The case of religious organizations7
Household innovation and agency in sustainability transitions7
Dialectic tensions driving niche creation – A case study of a local energy system7
How will renewables expansion and hydrocarbon decline impact security? Analysis from a socio-technical transitions perspective7
The potential of innovation contests in articulating demand for system-level transformation: The case of the Helsinki Energy Challenge7
Deployment of CO2 capture and storage in Europe under limited public acceptance—An energy system perspective7
A socio-economic examination of participation in socially innovative energy projects7
Innovating Urban Governance for Sustainable Energy Transitions: Between Institutional Design and Institutional Adaptation7
Institutional context and the governance of heat transitions: The cases of the Netherlands and the UK7
Financing grassroots innovation diffusion pathways: the case of UK community energy7
Transforming the food environment: An assemblage-based research approach7
Incumbents’ in/ability to drive endogenous sustainability transitions in livestock farming: Lessons from Rotenburg (Germany)7
Household niche experimentation in sustainability transitions and everyday life: A novel framework with evidence from low-waste living in Melbourne7
The outcomes of directionality: Towards a morphology of sociotechnical systems6
Just transition principles and criteria for food systems and beyond6
Regioning mission-oriented innovation policy: The articulation of directionality between federal and regional arenas in the German High-Tech Strategy6
Science for sale? Why academic marketization is a problem and what sustainability research can do about it6
The role of governments in uncertainty orchestration in market formation for sustainability transitions6
A constructivist approach to the spatial organization of transformative innovation policy6
Introduction to ‘Markets in sustainability transitions’6
The rise of China's new energy vehicle lithium-ion battery industry: The coevolution of battery technological innovation systems and policies6
Contouring ‘earth-space sustainability’6
Using dynamic capabilities to shape markets for alternative technologies: A comparative case study of automotive incumbents6
Improving multilevel policy mixes for sustainable urban mobility transition6
Brick by brick: Governing industry decarbonization in the face of uncertainty and risk6
Exploring agenda-setting of offshore energy innovations: Niche-regime interactions in Dutch Marine Spatial Planning processes6
Missions and mission-oriented innovation policy for sustainability: A review and critical reflection6
Digitalization, trust, and sustainability transitions: Insights from two blockchain-based green experiments in China's electricity sector6
1.0037620067596