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| Fischer-Kowalski, Marina; Institute of Social Ecology, Alpen Adria University; marina.fischer-kowalski@uni-klu.ac.at; Rotmans, Jan; DRIFT (Drift Research Institute for Transitions) Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; rotmans@fsw.eur.nl. |
| This article creates a meeting ground between two distinct and fairly elaborate research traditions dealing with social “transitions”: the Dutch societal transitions management approach, and the Viennese sociometabolic transitions approach. Sharing a similar understanding of sustainability transitions—namely as major transformational changes of system characteristics—and a background epistemology of complex systems, autopoeisis, and evolutionary mechanisms, they address the subject from different angles: one approach asks how transformative changes happen and what they look like, and the other approach tries answer the question of how to bring them about. The Viennese approach is almost exclusively analytical and... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis |
Palavras-chave: Social metabolism; Sociometabolic regimes; Transition management. |
| Ano: 2009 |
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