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Sustainability transitions and the state

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ID6057409
AuthorsPaul Johnstone (0000-0003-0394-9599, corresponding author), Phil Johnstone, Peter Newell (0000-0002-5371-7668)
Year2018
Volume27
Pages72-82
Publication date2018-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironmental Innovation and Societal Transitions (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2210-4224 • E-ISSN: 2210-4232
PublisherElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.eist.2017.10.006
OpenAlexW2766589207
LanguageEN
Citations received170
References cited77

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    Open Access•Kieran Harrahill, Owen Douglas•Energy Policy•2019

  • Transitional assistance policies for just, equitable and smooth low-carbon transitions

    Fergus Green, Ajay Gambhir•Climate Policy•2020

  • Decarbonization and its discontents

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  • The states–markets–decarbonization nexus

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  • Transitions governance with a sense of direction

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  • Understanding the role of government in sustainability transitions

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  • Incumbent-led transitions and civil society

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  • Reaching the wild berry industry

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  • The impact of valuation patterns on sustainability transitions

    Open Access•Florian Jakob•Environmental Innovation and…•2026

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    Open Access•Line Kvartborg Vestergaard, Benedikt Schmid•Environmental Innovation and…•2026

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    Open Access•Göran Smith, Steven Sarasini•Environmental Innovation and…•2025

  • Steering ‘green’ innovation policy toward sustainability? Lessons from implementing EIP-Agri in Sweden

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  • Mixed feelings

    Open Access•Mari Martiskainen, B K Sovacool•Environmental Innovation and…•2021

  • Innovation policy for sustainability transitions in small economies

    Open Access•Gloria Wenting Luo, Viktória Döme et al.•Environmental Innovation and…•2024

  • The changing role of the state

    Open Access•Kejia Yang, Kaidong Feng•Environmental Innovation and…•2026

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  • Innovation in the long run

    Open Access•Josef Taalbi•Environmental Innovation and…•2021

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  • Unlocking and accelerating transformations to the SDGs

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  • The geopolitics of energy system transformation

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  • Cross‐scale, cross‐level and multi‐actor governance of transformations toward the Sustainable Development Goals

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  • Mapping sustainable options in the fashion industry

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  • On non-reformist reforms and partial political settlements in degrowth strategy

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  • Democratising sustainability transformations

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  • What Political Settings Promote Renewable Energy Investments by Energy Utilities?—A Qualitative Comparative Analysis in Swiss Cantons

    Open Access•Benjamin Schmid, Basil Bornemann•European Policy Analysis•2019

  • Politics in the energy-security nexus

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  • Hacia un poscapitalismo digital

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  • Policy, politics and materiality across scales

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  • The politics of accelerating low-carbon transitions

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    Open Access•Kristiaan P W Kok•Energy Research & Social Science•2023

  • Foreign actors, faster transitions? Co-evolution of complementarities, perspectives and sociotechnical systems in the case of Indonesia’s electricity supply system

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  • Media and partisanship in energy transition

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  • Explaining Indonesia's failed energy transition

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  • World wars and the age of oil

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  • Interrelations between security and the zero‐carbon energy transition in the Finnish and Norwegian Arctic

    Open Access•Marja Helena Sivonen, Paula Kivimaa•Energy Research & Social Science•2024

  • Overcoming barriers and seizing opportunities for smart meters in developing countries

    Open Access•Rohit Kumar Gupta, Denise L Mauzerall et al.•Energy Research & Social Science•2025

  • Unsettling transitions

    Open Access•Andreanne Doyon, Jonathan Boron et al.•Energy Research & Social Science•2021

  • Interplay between low-carbon energy transitions and national security

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  • What next? Leveraging a new global crisis to mitigate an older one

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  • A perspective on radical transformations to sustainability

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  • Transition as the navigation of dilemmas

    Open Access•K Van Assche, Jan Börner et al.•Sustainability Science•2025

  • Building back better’ or sustaining the unsustainable? The climate impacts of Bank of England QE in the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open Access•Daniel Bailey•British Politics•2023

  • What next for supply-side policy in the south

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  • Spreading ‘green’ infrastructural harm

    Open Access•Alexander Dunlap•Globalizations•2021

  • Competing values, ideologies and lock-in dependencies in sociotechnical pathways for industrial decarbonization

    Open Access•B K Sovacool, Steve Griffith et al.•Environmental Science & Policy•2025

  • What roles do governments play vis-à-vis niche actors? A typology illustrated with transition dynamics in the Dutch agri-food system

    Open Access•Hens Runhaar, Sophie van Doorm et al.•Environmental Science & Policy•2025

  • Small wins enhancing sustainability transformations

    Open Access•Hanna Salo, Hanna H Salo et al.•Environmental Science & Policy•2021

  • Pattern Discovery for climate and environmental policy indicators

    Open Access•Kyle Herman, Justin Shenk•Environmental Science & Policy•2021

  • Risk governance in the transition towards sustainability, the case of bio-based plastic food packaging materials

    Johannes G van der A, Dick T H M Sijm•Journal of Risk Research•2021

  • Mobilising critical international political economy for the age of climate breakdown

    Open Access•Milan Babic, Sarah Sharma et al.•New Political Economy•2023

  • Decarbonising states as owners

    Open Access•Milan Babic, Adam D Dixon•New Political Economy•2022

  • Innovation studies and sustainability transitions

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  • Restructuring energy systems for sustainability? Energy transition policy in the Netherlands

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  • Sustainability transitions in the making

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  • Toward a spatial perspective on sustainability transitions

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  • Translating Sustainabilities between Green Niches and Socio-Technical Regimes

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  • Public R&D and social challenges

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  • The structuration of socio-technical regimes—Conceptual foundations from institutional theory

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  • Past and prospective energy transitions

    Open Access•Roger Fouquet, Peter J G Pearson•Energy Policy•2012

  • Regime destabilisation as the flipside of energy transitions

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  • Creative destruction or mere niche support? Innovation policy mixes for sustainability transitions

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  • Patterns of Protest

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  • The geography of sustainability transitions

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  • Applying institutional theory to the low-carbon energy transition

    Open Access•Philip Andrews‐speed•Energy Research & Social Science•2016

  • The pace of governed energy transitions

    Open Access•Friederike Kern, Karoline S Rogge•Energy Research & Social Science•2016

  • The political economy of energy transitions in Mozambique and South Africa

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  • Historical energy transitions

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  • The role of narratives in socio-technical transitions—Fukushima and the energy regimes of Japan, Germany, and the United Kingdom

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  • Environmental political economy, technological transitions and the state

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  • Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform, Rent Management and Political Fragmentation in Developing Countries

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  • The politics of innovation spaces for low-carbon energy

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  • The Political Economy of Energy Transitions

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  • Measuring and explaining policy paradigm change

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  • Political Competition, Path Dependence, and the Strategy of Sustainable Energy Transitions

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  • Human geography and socio-technical transition studies

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  • The Politics of Social-ecological Resilience and Sustainable Socio-technical Transitions

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Unique citing works170
Citations per year21,25
Citation span2018 - 2027 (10)
Citation velocityrecent
Highly citedYes
Citation typesNeutral: 164

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