Systemic intermediaries and transition processes

摘要: Policy-makers and scholars argue that Western societies are confronted with the need for major changes in agriculture, energy supply, the knowledge infrastructure, water management, transportation and many other important sectors in order to reach a sustainable future. These changes have a time horizon of at least one generation, and invoke developments and interactions within and between many different domains of society. The issue of stimulating and managing such processes has raised a lot of attention. In policy circles, the terms ‘transition’ and, accordingly, ‘transition management’ are used to capture the envisioned long-term and complex changes to more sustainability (Rotmans et al, 2000). The transition to a sustainable society is a dauntingly complex issue, both politically and theoretically. It includes exploration and stimulation of new ways of production and consumption, new types of regulation and …