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A transition research perspective on governance for sustainability
In this paper we present the transition approach as an integrated perspective to
understand and possibly orient our society towards sustainable development.
Transition management is based upon complex adaptive system thinking and seeks
to deal with ongoing changes in society in an evolutionary manner so as to influence
these ongoing changes in terms of speed and direction: towards sustainability. Since
the concept of sustainability is inherently normative, subjective and ambiguous, we
argue that (unlike some more traditional approaches to sustainable development) we
should focus on an open facilitation and stimulation of social processes towards
sustainability. Transition perspective poses novel challenges for research: there are
no unequivocal answers, nor is it clear how these processes should be governed. We
thus end this paper by formulating the basic research questions central to the search
for governance for sustainability