Sustainability oriented innovation and technology studies have received increasing attention
over the past 10–15 years. In particular, a new field dealing with “sustainability transitions” …

The top priorities for urban water sustainability include the provision of safe drinking water,
wastewater handling for public health, and protection against flooding. However, rapidly …

In recent years, governments across the globe have developed plans for a Green New Deal
to curb a combined economic and ecological crisis. Broad societal and industrial …

This paper addresses interactions between technological innovation systems (TIS) and wider
“context structures”. While TIS studies have always considered various kinds of contextual …

T ruffer B. and C oenen L. Environmental innovation and sustainability transitions in regional
studies, Regional Studies. Sustainable development and environmental innovations have …

Technological innovation systems and the multi-level framework are closely related concepts
for the study of far-reaching technological change. They draw on common theoretical roots …

In the past decade, the literature on transitions toward sustainable socio-technical systems
has made a considerable contribution in understanding the complex and multi-dimensional …

Technological change is a central feature of modern societies and a powerful source for
social change. There is an urgent task to direct these new technologies towards sustainability, …

In recent years, socio-technical transitions literature has gained importance in addressing
long-term, transformative change in various industries. In order to account for the inertia and …

This article introduces the new journal Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions (EIST).
We consider its key terms and offer a survey of relevant theoretical and empirical …