Learning through evaluation: A tentative evaluative scheme for sustainability transition experiments

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Authors

  • Christopher Lüderitz
  • Joannette J. Bos
  • Sarah Burch
  • Anna Davies
  • James Evans
  • Ariane König
  • Megan A. Farrelly
  • Niki Frantzeskaki
  • Robert B. Gibson
  • Braden Kay
  • Derk Loorbach
  • Kes McCormick
  • Oliver Parodi
  • Felix Rauschmayer
  • Uwe Schneidewind
  • Michael Stauffacher
  • Franziska Stelzer
  • Gregory Trencher
  • Johannes Venjakob
  • Philip J. Vergragt
  • Frances R. Westley
Transitions towards sustainability are urgently needed to address the interconnected challenges of economic development, ecological integrity, and social justice, from local to global scales. Around the world, collaborative science-society initiatives are forming to conduct experiments in support of sustainability transitions. Such experiments, if carefully designed, provide significant learning opportunities for making progress on transition efforts. Yet, there is no broadly applicable evaluative scheme available to capture this critical information across a large number of cases, and to guide the design of transition experiments. To address this gap, the article develops such a scheme, in a tentative form, drawing on evaluative research and sustainability transitions scholarship, alongside insights from empirical cases. We critically discuss the scheme's key features of being generic, comprehensive, operational, and formative. Furthermore, we invite scholars and practitioners to apply, reflect and further develop the proposed tentative scheme - making evaluation and experiments objects of learning.
OriginalspracheEnglisch
ZeitschriftJournal of Cleaner Production
Jahrgang169
Seiten (von - bis)61-76
Anzahl der Seiten16
ISSN0959-6526
DOIs
PublikationsstatusErschienen - 15.12.2017

    Fachgebiete

  • Transdisziplinäre Studien - Analytical-evaluative framework, Real-world laboratories, Sustainability assessment, Sustainability transformation, Sustainability transition experiments, Transition labs

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