The multi-level perspective on sustainability transitions: responses to seven criticisms
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Agroecology presents a potential in simultaneously achieving multiple societal goals, but the transition is progressively slow.
“The study findings from the four countries highlight that while agroecology presents a potential in simultaneously achieving multiple societal goals (Bhandari et al., 2024;Faure et al., 2024;Geels, 2011), the transition is progressively slow, necessitating more concerted efforts to unlock its full potential.”
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Section 1, “Transitions to sustainability” (page unavailable), describes agri-food sustainability transitions as complex, long-term processes and identifies barriers to changing established systems. It does not discuss agroecology’s potential to achieve multiple societal goals or establish the pace of an agroecological transition. (LLM, conf=0.82)
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- Authors
- Geels, F. W.
- Affiliations
- University of Sussex (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Geels, Frank W.
- ORCID
- Geels, Frank W.
- Venue
- Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2011-06
- Volume
- 1
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 24-40
- ISSN
- 2210-4224 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2146706569
- Cited by
- 3,092
- References
- 79
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- FWCI
- 48.13
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions (publishedVersion)
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- Funders
- FP7 Ideas: European Research Council (204246)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Innovation Diffusion and Forecasting
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law › Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Keywords
- multi-level perspective, sustainability transitions, socio-technical transitions, agency, bottom-up change, epistemology, attributional style, methodology, ontology, hierarchical levels
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