G Trencher
Biographic Data
| ID | 28790 |
|---|---|
| NAME | G Trencher |
| GIVEN NAMES | G |
| FAMILY NAME | Trencher |
| SIGNATURE | TRENCHER G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kyoto University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8130-9146 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 151 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 26 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Ten new insights in climate science 2025
Non-Technical Summary This review highlights 10 recent advances in climate change research with high policy relevance, spanning diverse topics: (1) the global temperature jump of 2023–2024; (2) sea surface warming and marine heatwaves; (3) land carbon sinks; (4) interactions between climate change and biodiversity loss; (5) accelerated groundwater decline; (6) global dengue incidence; (7) income and labour productivity loss; (8) strategic conside…
Acknowledging while doubling down
The politics and governance of phase-out
The phase-out of unsustainable technologies, substances, and processes is increasingly recognized as a critical policy approach for addressing environmental sustainability challenges. Yet its politics and governance have received surprisingly little explicit attention in environmental politics. This Special Issue breaks with the assumption that phase-out is just one among many other tools in the toolbox of environmental policy. To help establish …
Pursuing electric mobility in India
The temporal evolution of resistance strategies during low-carbon transitions
Building on research into the types of resistance strategies employed by incumbent firms (including framing, lobbying, organised pressure, and litigation), this article investigates the temporal development of these strategies during low-carbon transitions. Rather than understanding resistance as a temporary phenomenon in early transition stages, we conceptualise it as a dimension recurring over multiple phases. We develop an ideal-type framework…
Using emerging technologies to tackle mobility challenges caused by population ageing
How can cities achieve accelerated systemic decarbonization? Analysis of six frontrunner cities
A framework for considering decarbonisation risks emerging from low-carbon hydrogen supply chains
The evolution of “phase-out” as a bridging concept for sustainability
A tale of two coal regimes
Phasing out coal-fired electricity is an urgent global task, critical to efforts to mitigate climate change and air pollution. Despite the growth and increasing competitiveness of renewable energy, phase-out progress is slow, with coal-fired power even reaching an all-time global high in 2021. A key factor blocking or delaying this energy transition is the active resistance of coal regime actors with vested interests. However, there is still a la…
Net-zero carbon declarations by Japanese local governments
Sub-national governments are a crucial non-state actor for mitigating climate change. This importance has recently strengthened as increasing numbers of municipalities declare net-zero carbon emission goals to support the Paris Agreement, often well ahead of national governments. In Japan, net-zero declarations have also diffused widely, with nearly 800 declarations appearing in domino-like fashion over 2019-2022. To elucidate the factors that pr…
A comparison of smart city research and practice in Sweden and Japan
Top-down sustainability transitions in action
Revisiting carbon lock-in in energy systems
Carbon lock-in hampers the realisation of sustainable energy systems. It occurs when carbon-intensive technologies, markets and institutions co-evolve and become wedded to historical trajectories despite environmentally superior technologies being available. Multiple material and non-material causes are discussed in literature on socio-technical or energy transitions and carbon lock-in. However, these are yet to be synthesised into a comprehensiv…
Towards the smart city 2.0
Understanding Nature through Photography
This study examined the intent, preparatory processes and challenges of nature photographers mainly shooting plants and animals in northern Japan. Findings revealed efforts to actively absorb scientific knowledge related to subjects during the preparatory process. Thus, a core intention is to capture nature in a scientifically credible manner, thereby demonstrating intimate understanding of subjects acquired from both scientific knowledge and fir…
Instrument interactions and relationships in policy mixes
Transformative capacity and local action for urban sustainability
There is a consensus about the strategic importance of cities and urban areas for achieving a global transformation towards sustainability. While there is mounting interest in the types of qualities that increase the capacity of urban systems to attain deep transformations, empirical evidence about the extent to which existing institutional and material systems exhibit transformative capacity is lacking. This paper thereby seeks to determine the …
Contradictory but also complementary
Learning through evaluation – A tentative evaluative scheme for sustainability transition experiments
Innovative policy practices to advance building energy efficiency and retrofitting
Students as change agents in a town-wide sustainability transformation
Student participation in the co-creation of knowledge and social experiments for advancing sustainability
Beyond the third mission
This paper explores a global trend where universities are collaborating with government, industry and civil society to advance the sustainable transformation of a specific geographical area or societal sub-system. With empirical evidence, we argue that this function of ‘co-creation for sustainability’ could be interpreted as the seeds of an emerging, new mission for the university. We demonstrate that this still evolving mission differs significa…
University partnerships for co-designing and co-producing urban sustainability
Establishing sustainability science in higher education institutions
University partnerships for co-designing and co-producing urban sustainability
Contradictory but also complementary
Transformative capacity and local action for urban sustainability
There is a consensus about the strategic importance of cities and urban areas for achieving a global transformation towards sustainability. While there is mounting interest in the types of qualities that increase the capacity of urban systems to attain deep transformations, empirical evidence about the extent to which existing institutional and material systems exhibit transformative capacity is lacking. This paper thereby seeks to determine the …
Revisiting carbon lock-in in energy systems
Carbon lock-in hampers the realisation of sustainable energy systems. It occurs when carbon-intensive technologies, markets and institutions co-evolve and become wedded to historical trajectories despite environmentally superior technologies being available. Multiple material and non-material causes are discussed in literature on socio-technical or energy transitions and carbon lock-in. However, these are yet to be synthesised into a comprehensiv…
Innovative policy practices to advance building energy efficiency and retrofitting
Top-down sustainability transitions in action
Students as change agents in a town-wide sustainability transformation
Instrument interactions and relationships in policy mixes
A tale of two coal regimes
Phasing out coal-fired electricity is an urgent global task, critical to efforts to mitigate climate change and air pollution. Despite the growth and increasing competitiveness of renewable energy, phase-out progress is slow, with coal-fired power even reaching an all-time global high in 2021. A key factor blocking or delaying this energy transition is the active resistance of coal regime actors with vested interests. However, there is still a la…
Net-zero carbon declarations by Japanese local governments
Sub-national governments are a crucial non-state actor for mitigating climate change. This importance has recently strengthened as increasing numbers of municipalities declare net-zero carbon emission goals to support the Paris Agreement, often well ahead of national governments. In Japan, net-zero declarations have also diffused widely, with nearly 800 declarations appearing in domino-like fashion over 2019-2022. To elucidate the factors that pr…
Student participation in the co-creation of knowledge and social experiments for advancing sustainability
Establishing sustainability science in higher education institutions
Beyond the third mission
This paper explores a global trend where universities are collaborating with government, industry and civil society to advance the sustainable transformation of a specific geographical area or societal sub-system. With empirical evidence, we argue that this function of ‘co-creation for sustainability’ could be interpreted as the seeds of an emerging, new mission for the university. We demonstrate that this still evolving mission differs significa…
University partnerships for co-designing and co-producing urban sustainability
Students as change agents in a town-wide sustainability transformation
Student participation in the co-creation of knowledge and social experiments for advancing sustainability
Innovative policy practices to advance building energy efficiency and retrofitting
Learning through evaluation – A tentative evaluative scheme for sustainability transition experiments
Contradictory but also complementary
Towards the smart city 2.0
Understanding Nature through Photography
This study examined the intent, preparatory processes and challenges of nature photographers mainly shooting plants and animals in northern Japan. Findings revealed efforts to actively absorb scientific knowledge related to subjects during the preparatory process. Thus, a core intention is to capture nature in a scientifically credible manner, thereby demonstrating intimate understanding of subjects acquired from both scientific knowledge and fir…
Instrument interactions and relationships in policy mixes
Transformative capacity and local action for urban sustainability
There is a consensus about the strategic importance of cities and urban areas for achieving a global transformation towards sustainability. While there is mounting interest in the types of qualities that increase the capacity of urban systems to attain deep transformations, empirical evidence about the extent to which existing institutional and material systems exhibit transformative capacity is lacking. This paper thereby seeks to determine the …
Revisiting carbon lock-in in energy systems
Carbon lock-in hampers the realisation of sustainable energy systems. It occurs when carbon-intensive technologies, markets and institutions co-evolve and become wedded to historical trajectories despite environmentally superior technologies being available. Multiple material and non-material causes are discussed in literature on socio-technical or energy transitions and carbon lock-in. However, these are yet to be synthesised into a comprehensiv…
A comparison of smart city research and practice in Sweden and Japan
Top-down sustainability transitions in action
The evolution of “phase-out” as a bridging concept for sustainability
A tale of two coal regimes
Phasing out coal-fired electricity is an urgent global task, critical to efforts to mitigate climate change and air pollution. Despite the growth and increasing competitiveness of renewable energy, phase-out progress is slow, with coal-fired power even reaching an all-time global high in 2021. A key factor blocking or delaying this energy transition is the active resistance of coal regime actors with vested interests. However, there is still a la…
Net-zero carbon declarations by Japanese local governments
Sub-national governments are a crucial non-state actor for mitigating climate change. This importance has recently strengthened as increasing numbers of municipalities declare net-zero carbon emission goals to support the Paris Agreement, often well ahead of national governments. In Japan, net-zero declarations have also diffused widely, with nearly 800 declarations appearing in domino-like fashion over 2019-2022. To elucidate the factors that pr…
Using emerging technologies to tackle mobility challenges caused by population ageing
How can cities achieve accelerated systemic decarbonization? Analysis of six frontrunner cities
A framework for considering decarbonisation risks emerging from low-carbon hydrogen supply chains
Pursuing electric mobility in India
The temporal evolution of resistance strategies during low-carbon transitions
Building on research into the types of resistance strategies employed by incumbent firms (including framing, lobbying, organised pressure, and litigation), this article investigates the temporal development of these strategies during low-carbon transitions. Rather than understanding resistance as a temporary phenomenon in early transition stages, we conceptualise it as a dimension recurring over multiple phases. We develop an ideal-type framework…
Ten new insights in climate science 2025
Non-Technical Summary This review highlights 10 recent advances in climate change research with high policy relevance, spanning diverse topics: (1) the global temperature jump of 2023–2024; (2) sea surface warming and marine heatwaves; (3) land carbon sinks; (4) interactions between climate change and biodiversity loss; (5) accelerated groundwater decline; (6) global dengue incidence; (7) income and labour productivity loss; (8) strategic conside…
Acknowledging while doubling down
Political science (16 works) · Business (14 works) · Engineering (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (12 works) · Economics (10 works) · Sustainability (10 works) · Geography (8 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Climate Change Policy and Economics (5 works)