Megan Farrelly

Biographic Data

ID1574469
NAMEMegan Farrelly
GIVEN NAMESMegan
FAMILY NAMEFarrelly
SIGNATUREFARRELLY M
AFFILIATIONSMonash University
ORCID0000-0002-0453-059X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS31
TOTAL CITATIONS263
AUTHOR COUNT31
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2005
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX9

  • Moving beyond implementation gaps in climate policy

    Open AccessGrace Rodgerson, Megan Farrelly et al.ARTICLEEnergy Research & Social Science2026

    Urban municipalities are commonly viewed as critical actors in net zero transitions due to their unique positionality between vertical levels of government and the communities they represent. Despite a swathe of ambitious climate policy stances at the municipal level, we are yet to witness the level of change required to achieve net zero transitions. Whilst the disconnect between policy rhetoric and implementation is well-documented, this study s…

  • Living Worlds for Net Zero

    Open AccessDaren Sharp, E Quilty et al.ARTICLEFutures2026

    This paper examines how Transition Management (TM) visioning can be reconfigured to more explicitly engage with everyday experience, materiality, and embodied forms of sense-making in sustainability transitions. While participatory approaches to visioning increasingly incorporate immersive and material practices, TM visioning continues to privilege abstract, system-level imaginaries and offers limited guidance for integrating lived, place-based e…

  • Building capacity for sustainability transformations through transdisciplinary experimentation

    Open AccessStuart Burch, Sarah Burch et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2026References: 7

    In 2022, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) established that global greenhouse gas emissions trajectories are not on track to limiting warming to less than 2 ° C above pre-industrial averages (IPCC 2022a). Given that broader progress towards ambitious climate change and sustainability goals remains incremental, a whole-of-society approach, including transformative innovation in the private sector, is required to trigger the nece…

  • Assessing directionality and institutional production in SDG localisation

    Open AccessKathryn Davidson, Thi Minh Phuong Nguyen et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Innovation and…2025

    Mission-oriented policy thinking is useful to accelerate SDG localisation. • Assessing directionality and institutional production is critical to SDG implementation. • Incorporating SDGs in urban policies is far from inducing sustainability transitions. • Policy coordination is important to speed up SDG localisation. Cities are actively seeking pathways to localise the Sustainable Development Goals [SDGs] to address urban challenges and drive bro…

  • Opportunities for social sustainability through local governance of mine and quarry restoration

    Open AccessG R Tully, Grace N Tully et al.ARTICLEThe Extractive Industries and…2025References: 9

    Local government has no major role in mine and quarry rehabilitation in Victoria Australia. • Socially sustainable rehabilitation requires knowledge of the local context. • Synthesis of strategic planning documents and experience of 20 council officers. • Benefits for local government involvement due to their role in strategic planning. • Subsidiary role in multi-level governance reduces capacity to influence outcomes. Sustainable development in …

  • Headlining justice from coalfields to clean futures

    Open AccessRachel Walters, Megan Farrelly et al.ARTICLEEnergy Research & Social Science2025References: 43

    Incorporating justice considerations into energy transitions dialogues is important. However, what constitutes what is (un)just is perceived differently by different actors and is subject to moral interpretations and influenced by broader landscape factors. The media in particular are considered salient in framing how particular issues are presented, understood and actioned upon. The current study used a framing approach to unpack the conceptuali…

  • Expanding theories of learning for adaptive governance

    Open AccessDelia Paul, Benjamin S Thompson et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2025References: 5

    Adaptive governance scholarship applies the concept of multiple-loop learning to analyse the depth of learning necessary for society to adequately address environmental challenges. However, multiple-loop learning is rarely used to explain negative or mixed governance outcomes. We do so here, by developing a framework that matches concepts of single-loop, double-loop, and triple-loop learning against three types of ‘governance actions’ by civil so…

  • Framing of innovation in urban Australian municipal climate policy

    Open AccessGrace Rodgerson, Megan Farrelly et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2025References: 21

    Despite growing recognition of the importance of innovation in achieving net zero transitions, it remains unclear how to govern transformative innovation. Urban municipalities are consistently recognised for going above and beyond their state and national counterparts in their policy stances on climate change, yet there is limited investigation into how municipalities engage with and frame innovation in their decarbonisation policies, plans and s…

  • The spatial dynamics of urban experimentation

    Open AccessWikke Novalia, Rob Raven et al.ARTICLECities2025References: 10

    Globally, cities are confronted with multifaceted climate mitigation and adaptation challenges, requiring experimentation with new socio-technical systems to accelerate sustainability transitions and enhance resilience. An emerging urban governance approach centred on experimentation—employed to test socio-technical innovations and promote learning—has gained traction in scholarship and practice. Research has shown that generalising and aggregati…

  • Aesthetic experience of raingardens

    Open AccessMeredith Frances Dobbie, Megan Farrelly et al.ARTICLELandscape and Urban Planning2024

    Raingardens, as part of urban green infrastructure, are being retrofitted in cities worldwide to contribute to urban sustainability and resilience. Technical function is essential, as is aesthetic function to optimise their community acceptance. Unlike technical design guidelines, aesthetic design guidelines for raingardens are limited. Experience of a landscape can contribute to its bio-physical sustainability, however not all landscape aestheti…

  • Place-based and sectoral patterns in urban experimentation

    Open AccessWikke Novalia, Megan Farrelly et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Innovation and…2024

    Offers a large-N multi-system analysis of experiments across utility sectors. • Integrates sectoral and place-based perspectives in studying urban experiments. • Reveals similarities and differences in experiments across water and energy domains. • Shows few social innovations and distinct territorial logic influencing transfers. • Contributes to hypothesis building on multi-system experiments and deep transitions. Transforming critical infrastru…

  • Pluralising place frames in urban transition management

    Open AccessD Sharp, Rob Raven et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Innovation and…2024Cited by: 9References: 43

    This paper is concerned with unpacking net-zero frames and identifying implications for precinct scale urban transition management. Using data from frontrunner interviews and secondary sources in a case study on the Monash Technology Precinct (Melbourne, Australia), the analysis points towards four frames of net-zero at precinct scale: 'Electrify Everything' focuses on technology development to achieve carbon emissions reductions; 'Place Matters'…

  • Policy sequencing for early-stage transition dynamics – A process model and comparative case study in the water sector

    Open AccessKatrin Pakizer, Eva Lieberherr et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Innovation and…2023Cited by: 3References: 97

  • A tale of two cities

    Open AccessTahmina Yasmin, Megan Farrelly et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2023

    The call for adaptive governance approaches to guide the sustainable transformation of urban water management systems is growing amongst scholars and policy professionals. Responding to this call, the Global North (GN) has focused significant evidence-based research on issues of scale, capacity, and institutional arrangements to support such transformations, whereas evidence from the Global South remains nascent. This paper contributes to the gro…

  • Routledge Handbook of Urban Water Governance

    Thomas Bolognesi, Francisco Silva Pinto et al.BOOKRoutledge Handbook of Urban Water…2022

  • Urban transformative capacity

    Open AccessMarc Wolfram, Sara Borgström et al.ARTICLEAMBIO2019Cited by: 11References: 58

  • Conceptualising the built environment to inform sustainable urban transitions

    Open AccessJoshua Nielsen, Josh Nielsen et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Innovation and…2019Cited by: 9References: 124

  • Just transition management

    Open AccessGeorge Goddard, Megan Farrelly et al.ARTICLEApplied Energy2018

  • Building effective Planning Support Systems for green urban water infrastructure—Practitioners’ perceptions

    Open AccessMartijn Kuller, Megan Farrelly et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2018Cited by: 4References: 7

  • Evolution of water governance in Bangladesh

    Open AccessTahmina Yasmin, Megan Farrelly et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2018Cited by: 2References: 7

  • Learning through evaluation – A tentative evaluative scheme for sustainability transition experiments

    Open AccessChristopher Luederitz, N Schäpke et al.ARTICLEJournal of Cleaner Production2017

  • Risk governance in the water sensitive city

    Open AccessMeredith Frances Dobbie, Rebekah Ruth Brown et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2015Cited by: 1References: 9

  • Building networks and coalitions to promote transformational change

    Open AccessJoannette J Bos, Rebekah Ruth Brown et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Innovation and…2015Cited by: 5References: 28

  • A design framework for creating social learning situations

    Open AccessJoannette J Bos, Rebekah Ruth Brown et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2013Cited by: 22References: 20

  • Actors working the institutions in sustainability transitions

    Open AccessRebekah Ruth Brown, Megan Farrelly et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2013Cited by: 57References: 13