TY - JOUR

T1 - Scaling the impact of sustainability initiatives

T2 - a typology of amplification processes

AU - Lam, David P. M.

AU - Martín-López, Berta

AU - Wiek, Arnim

AU - Bennett, Elena M.

AU - Frantzeskaki, Niki

AU - Horcea-Milcu, Andra I.

AU - Lang, Daniel J.

PY - 2020/5/14

Y1 - 2020/5/14

N2 - Amplifying the impact of sustainability initiatives to foster transformations in urban and rural contexts, has received increasing attention in resilience, social innovation, and sustainability transitions research. We review the literature on amplification frameworks and propose an integrative typology of eight processes, which aim to increase the impact of such initiatives. The eight amplification processes are: stabilizing, speeding up, growing, replicating, transferring, spreading, scaling up, and scaling deep. We aggregated these processes into three categories: amplifying within, amplifying out, and amplifying beyond. This integrative typology aims to stimulate the debate on impact amplification from urban and rural sustainability initiatives across research areas to support sustainability transformations. We propose going beyond an understanding of amplification, which focuses only on the increase of numbers of sustainability initiatives, by considering how these initiatives create transformative change.

AB - Amplifying the impact of sustainability initiatives to foster transformations in urban and rural contexts, has received increasing attention in resilience, social innovation, and sustainability transitions research. We review the literature on amplification frameworks and propose an integrative typology of eight processes, which aim to increase the impact of such initiatives. The eight amplification processes are: stabilizing, speeding up, growing, replicating, transferring, spreading, scaling up, and scaling deep. We aggregated these processes into three categories: amplifying within, amplifying out, and amplifying beyond. This integrative typology aims to stimulate the debate on impact amplification from urban and rural sustainability initiatives across research areas to support sustainability transformations. We propose going beyond an understanding of amplification, which focuses only on the increase of numbers of sustainability initiatives, by considering how these initiatives create transformative change.

KW - Transdisciplinary studies

KW - City

KW - Urban

KW - Rural

KW - scaling

KW - transition initiative

KW - transformation

KW - transition

KW - Sustainability Science

UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/d43b0100-6f1e-3917-a60a-4246101e0cc6/

U2 - 10.1186/s42854-020-00007-9

DO - 10.1186/s42854-020-00007-9

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 2

JO - Urban Transformations

JF - Urban Transformations

SN - 2524-8162

IS - 1

M1 - 3

ER -