Abstract
A large and fast-growing field of studies, known as sustainability transitions, emerged at the end of the 1990s, relying on a number of theoretical approaches. Transition management, strategic niche management, sociotechnical transition and technological innovation systems are among the most popular frameworks used to theorize sustainability transitions, although other approaches have been used as well. Our research analyses a specific corpus of text composed of approximately 3500 abstracts of papers collected in the Scopus database related to the term sustainability transition with the help of machine learning techniques. We explore related subfields of this literature, both related to theoretical framework or sectoral focus and their evolution across years and publication outlets, depicting different sustainability narratives.
Highlights
Policy makers, as well as social scientists, are paying increasing attention to the way societies may transit from the current to more sustainable modes of production and consumption [1]
We aim to describe the major themes and their evolution across years and publication outlets, in a corpus of text consisting of abstracts of papers related to the sustainability transition literature, applying a quantitative text analysis technique on more than 3500 papers published in the last decade
This paper demonstrates the usefulness of a lens that attends to processes of making and unmaking in sustainability transformations through an analysis of an ongoing sustainability transformation, the territorios campesinos agroalimentarios (TCA) endogenous territorial figure and peasant movement in Colombia
Summary
As well as social scientists, are paying increasing attention to the way societies may transit from the current to more sustainable modes of production and consumption [1] This awareness requires fundamental transitions or transformations in core systems, entailing ‘profound changes in dominant institutions, practices, technologies, policies, lifestyles and thinking’ [2], and it urges deep structural transformations towards new ways of structuring our economies and production systems, a new social dynamic and more sustainable and inclusive forms of development. Sustainability transition studies constitutes a field of research that is of high societal relevance, given the magnitude and pervasiveness of sustainability challenges that we are facing [1] This literature emerged at the end of the 1990s relying on a number of theoretical approaches
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