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Learning through Evaluation: A Tentative Evaluative Scheme for Sustainability Transition Experiments

Author

  • Christopher Luederitz
  • Niko Schäpke
  • Arnim Wiek
  • Daniel Lang
  • Matthias Bergmann
  • Joannette Bos
  • Sarah Burch
  • Anna Davies
  • James Evans
  • Ariane König
  • Megan Farrelly
  • Nigel Forrest
  • Niki Frantzeskaki
  • Robert Gibson
  • Braden Kay
  • Derk Loorbach
  • Kes McCormick
  • Oliver Parodi
  • Felix Rauschmayer
  • Uwe Schneidewind
  • Michael Stauffacher
  • Franziska Stelzer
  • Gregory Trencher
  • Johannes Venjakob
  • Philip Vergragt
  • Henrik von Wehrden
  • Frances Westley
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Summary, in English

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.

Department/s

  • The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics

Publishing year

2017

Language

English

Pages

61-76

Publication/Series

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volume

169

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Elsevier

Topic

  • Social Sciences

Keywords

  • urban
  • sustainability
  • transitions

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0959-6526