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Introducing Sustainability Transitions’ Thinking in Urban Contexts

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Co-­creating Sustainable Urban Futures

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This chapter describes the basics of transitions thinking, its rationale and relation to sustainability transitions. We outline the fundamental conceptual models and frameworks (multi-phase model, multi-level perspective, multi-path, power and agency) and make a quick introduction to the relation of the sustainability transitions field to environmental governance.

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    Niki Frantzeskaki, Matthew Bach, Katharina Hölscher & Flor Avelino

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Frantzeskaki, N., Bach, M., Hölscher, K., Avelino, F. (2018). Introducing Sustainability Transitions’ Thinking in Urban Contexts. In: Frantzeskaki, N., Hölscher, K., Bach, M., Avelino, F. (eds) Co-­creating Sustainable Urban Futures. Future City, vol 11. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69273-9_3

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