2. What is transition management?
• Way to think about and act upon agency
in transitions
• Governance theory and framework
• Operationalized method and set of
systemic instruments
4. Policy sciences
Sustainable Development
Complexity theory
Sociology
Technology studies
1980
s
2000
Modeling
Multi-level
Multi fase
TM
Climate research
Onzerkerh.
Klimaat
modellen
Scene
IA
structuratie
management
SCOT
Transitie
Niche
CTA
History
Innovation studies
1990
s
Multi-level
Multi-fase
Uncertainty.
CAS
Scaling
Climate
models
3P
governance
IA
Structuration
Management
SCOT
Transition
Niche
CTA
Uncertainty
Transition
Management
5. TM 1.0
Monitoring,
evaluating
and learning
Developing
images
coalitions and
transition-
agendas
Mobilizing actors and
executing projects and
experiments
Problem structuring,
establishment of the
transition arena and
envisioning
society
Transition arenaRegular policy arena
- Short term
- Peloton
- Incremental change
- Problem- and goal oriented
- Long term
- Frontrunners
- System-innovation
- Problem- and goal searching
Predevelopment-based:
Creating space
Problem structuring/envisioning
Experimentation
Toolls/instruments
6. Theoretical evolution (1)
• Complex systems perspective on transition dynamics (De Haan &
Rotmans 2011, De Haan 2010, Loorbach et al. 2012, Loorbach and
Frantzeskaki 2012, Frantzeskaki & De Haan 2009,)
• Integrated sustainability assessment (Grosskurth & Rotmans
2005, Rotmans 2006, Rotmans et al. 2008)
• TM in relation to sustainability governance and policy design
(Frantzeskaki et al. 2012a, Loorbach et al 2011, Avelino 2009)
• Participatory methods for transition management (Van den
Bosch & Rotmans 2008, Wittmayer et al. 2009, Sondeijker 2009,
Van den Bosch 2010, Frantzeskaki et al 2012c, Roorda et al. 2012,
Taanman et al. 2012)
• Urban innovation processes (Loorbach 2009, Frantzeskaki et al.
2012b, Wittmayer et al. 2012, Roorda et al. 2012, Roorda 2012,
Van Steenbergen et al. 2012, Lodder & Krosse 2012)
7. Theoretical evolution (2)
• Analyses of sectoral transitions: energy (Loorbach & Verbong 2012),
mobility (Zijlstra & Avelino 2012, Avelino et al. 2012), health care (Van
Raak & De Haan forthcoming), water (Van der Brugge 2009, Frantzeskaki
2011), and infrasystems (Frantzeskaki & Loorbach 2010)
• Grassroots innovations, social movements, social economy and self-
organisation (Avelino & Kunze 2009, Wittmayer 2011, Avelino et al. 2012)
• Transitions in relation to socio-ecological resilience and biodiversity
(Van der Brugge & Van Raak 2007, Van der Brugge 2009, Westley et al.
2011, Frantzeskaki 2011)
• Power, politics, discourse and other critical engagements with
transition studies (Jhagroe 2011, Avelino 2011, Jhagroe & Wijsman 2011,
Eshuis, et al. 2012, Van Steenbergen & Wittmayer 2012, Wittmayer 2012,
Jhagroe & Frantzeskaki 2012)
• Transition perspectives on the economic crisis (Lijnis Huffenreuter
2012) and the role of business (Wijsman & Loorbach 2012)
8. Tools TM 1.0
SCENE
patterns
actor analysis
problem analysis
TRANSCE
reflexive
monitoring
monitoring
framework trans. indicators
MLP
DBU
Deepening, broadening, upscaling
transitioning
actor selection
expert-arena
system analysis
arena
agendaexperiments
evaluation
TM multiple participatory tools
13. Tools TM 2.0
tipping point
ethics
transition
potential
community engagement
communiciation
& discourse
financing (e.g. joint purchase)
empowerment
coalition building
business cases
cost-benefit
system analysis
arena
agendaexperiments
evaluation
TM
power analysis
institutionalization
power strategy
social movement
16. Transition lock-in?
• Transition field established, dominated by
socio-technical regime
• Different ‘schools’ hardly
interact/exchange/cocreate
• We are stuck in optimising the established
regime
• Lack of strategy to really impact science, policy
and society together
17. Escaping the lock-in
• Celebrate the diversity, make intellectual tensions
explicit and use them
• Kill our darlings: no more multiplying MLP, TIS, TM, SNM
• Strategize
– Global database of transition experiments/social innovation
– Face up to external (science/policy) regimes and destabilize
– Create global transition network based on existing hubs
– New themes: socio-economic domain, transition in science, policy
transition, …
– Our mission: a world in transition?