Accelerating sustainability transitions Building visions, unlocking pathways, navigating conflicts Over the past few decades the damage being done to global ecosystems by established development trajectories has become increasingly evident. In many sectors and regions sustainability transitions are gathering pace as new technologies, business models and social practices begin to transform […]
STRN works to improve scientific understanding of sustainability transitions through a program of networking, research coordination and synthesis activities organized around eight research themes. Our research agenda (updated in 2019) specifies the research and policy challenges that the network is currently engaged with. Download journal version at EIST / Sciencedirect. […]
Jochen Markard (ETH-Zürich) was elected as the new chairman of the STRN network. His term started as of the 1. of January. Jochen follows Frank Geels (Manchester University). Lea Fünfschilling from Lund University was elected as a new board member. Check out: Jochen’s website Jochen’s twitter Lea’s website […]
The Call for Abstracts for the 4th NEST conference due to take place in Lisbon at Universidade Nova de Lisboa has brought yet another increase in submissions: in total we have received 119 submitted abstracts! This is three times more applications than last year. This can be seen as […]
The NEST PhD-Network and the STRN methodologies thematic group jointly invite PhD students and junior researchers to a Winter School on “Methodologies and Methods for Sustainability Transitions Research”. It will take place from the 11th to 15th March 2019 at Fraunhofer ISI, Karlsruhe, Germany. Please find the program here: […]
We are happy to announce the launch of a new thematic group on Urban Transitions and Transformation Research on urban transitions is a central element in the wider research agenda on the ‘geography of transitions’, i.e. research that explores spatial dimensions of sustainability transitions and the particularities of institutional contexts. […]
The Network for Early Career Researchers in Sustainability Transitions (NEST) is inviting paper abstracts for the 4th annual NEST Conference 2019 (#4THNEST), with the theme: “Transitions to where? Shared values and visions for sustainability transitions.” The conference will be held on April 4-5, 2019 in Lisbon, Portugal. Deadline […]
The Call for Abstracts for the 3rd NEST conference in Utrecht has brought about a major increase in submissions: in total we have received 116 submitted abstracts! This can be seen as a sign that Sustainability Transitions Research is growing into a well-known and respected research field. However, the organising […]
