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What about the politics? Sustainable development, transition management, and long term energy transitions

Author: James Meadowcroft

Published in: Policy Sciences | Issue 4/2009

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This article is concerned with governance of long term socio-technical transitions required to orient development trajectories of advanced industrial counties along more sustainable lines. It discusses the contribution that ‘transition management’ can make to such processes, emphasizes the irreducibly political character of governance for sustainable development, and suggests that the long-term transformation of energy systems will prove to be a messy, conflictual, and highly disjointed process.

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Title: What about the politics? Sustainable development, transition management, and long term energy transitions
Author: James Meadowcroft
Publication date: 01-11-2009
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Policy Sciences / Issue 4/2009
Print ISSN: 0032-2687
Electronic ISSN: 1573-0891
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11077-009-9097-z

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