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Imagining sustainability: the added value of transition scenarios in transition management

Saartje Sondeijker (Dutch Research Institute for Transitions (DRIFT), Faculty of Social Sciences, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. )
Jac Geurts (Tilburg University (UvT), Department for Organisation Studies, Tilburg, The Netherlands.)
Jan Rotmans (Dutch Research Institute for Transitions (DRIFT), Faculty of Social Sciences, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands.)
Arnold Tukker (TNO Built Environment and Geosciences, Delft, The Netherlands.)

Foresight

ISSN: 1463-6689

Article publication date: 1 September 2006

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Abstract

Purpose

To address lessons that specify the impact and contribution of current scenario methods when focused on facilitating transition management processes.

Design/methodology/approach

Comparative literature review based on transition management and scenario development.

Research limitations/implications

Need of further systemic thought about the required criteria of transition scenarios and the embedding of scenario use in transition management processes.

Practical implications

Processes of transition management are in need of transition specific scenarios.

Originality/value

Because transition management implies a complex and long‐term steering paradigm with which current scenario applications are not familiar, conclusions are drawn on the (changing) requirements of scenario development processes in transition management and on the need to innovate current scenario methods in the context of transition management.

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Citation

Sondeijker, S., Geurts, J., Rotmans, J. and Tukker, A. (2006), "Imagining sustainability: the added value of transition scenarios in transition management", Foresight, Vol. 8 No. 5, pp. 15-30. https://doi.org/10.1108/14636680610703063

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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