This book serves as a guide to model-based strategy making, policy design and analyses in support of sustainable futures. It shows which actions and frameworks are required in the transition phases in order to initiate and sustain a socio-technical transition.

Formulating effective responses to the global challenges of mitigating climate change and securing a sustainable energy future requires a clear understanding of the interdependent causalities between institutions, local decision making, strategic alliances and eco-innovations, as well as policies. It has been acknowledged that the linear Manhattan project model is not an adequate governance model for mastering the dynamic complexity of socio-technical transitions; therefore this book aims at advancing research on systematic transition management models. It offers qualitative and quantitative analyses of socio-technical transitions in road transportation and housing, bringing together tailored theorizing on sustainability transitions and applied system dynamics modeling. It highlights the interconnected causal feedbacks that are required to overcome the lock-in situation in road transportation and housing fueled by fossil energies. Showing which concerted actions and framework conditions are required in the transition phases in order to initiate and sustain socio-technical transition, it serves as a guide to model-based strategy making, policy design and analyses in support of sustainable futures.

The book assists policy makers in long term policy making and helps them to overcome policy resistance It informs entrepreneurial decision makers of promising technology substitution pathways for meeting policy targets on time The book reflects on analytical methods of transition mapping and modeling that help to advance the expertise of researchers in the field Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext

Dr. Silvia Ulli-Beer, Senior Researcher at Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen, Switzerland.

Inhalt
Preface.- Introduction.- Part I: Theory and Methods.- Part II: Fields of Analysis: Clean Personal Road Transportation and Energy- Efficient Housing.- Part III: Research and Policy Implications: Mastering the Challenges of Socio-Technical Transitions in Theory and Practice.