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Gray Rhino Concept

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  • Large, dangerous, risks, probable events in front of us
  • reaction: denial, muddling, diagnosing, blaming, panic and action
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Transformation

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Complete change in system: structural, functional, relational and cognitive aspects of socio-technical-ecological systems

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Transition

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Shift from one system to another, it is a flow

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Innovation

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Can lead transition towards transformation

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Creative disruption

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The disruptive process of creating new products

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Governance

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System of informal and formal rule making system
Structures, processes, rules and traditions that determine decisions and share power, accountability and responsibility

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Private governance

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Businesses that make rules with no direct involvement from political institutions

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Geography of transitions

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Trying to understand why it happens and where, if we might predict it

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Deep transitions

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1: Industrialization
2: Globalization
3: ?

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Transitions may

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Accelerate boader social innovation, new forms of collective ownership and or democratic management

–> transformation

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Governance interact with

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behavioral and technical change, shared beliefs (how do we see sustainability and leadership) and can on itself transform

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Main research topics sustainability transitions

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  • Understand whether and why transitions unfold unevenly across space
  • Analyze whether and how context matters for transition processes
  • Analyze how spatial dimensions of local-global networks influence transition processes
  • Analyze the governance of transitions at and across different scales
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Differences transformation, transition and innovation

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Difference of scale
Innovation: niches
Transitions: regimes
Transformation: landscape

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3 ways of understanding and analyzing innovation, transition and transformation

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  1. Technological Innovation Systems (TIS)
  2. Transitions with the Multi Level Perspective (MLP)
  3. Earth System Governance (ESG)
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Importance of governance and politics for transformations

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  • Governance is implicated in any attempt to transform towards sustainability
  • Transformations are deeply and unavoidably political
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Trajectories of change

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likely to ermergy from coevolutionary interactions between multiple systems

17
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3 ways of seeing governance

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  • scientific concept to understand transformations
  • normative program to realise and manage political change
  • crisitcal societal discource
18
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Governance for, of and in transformations

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For: created the conditions for transformations
Of: to actively trigger and steer transformation
In: transformative change within regimes

19
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5 key governance problems

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  • Architecture
  • Agency
  • Adaptiveness
  • Accountability
  • Allocation and acces
20
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Cross cutting themes (table)

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Power, norms, knowledge, scale

21
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4 conceptual approaches to transformations

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Transitions approach: MLP
Socio-ecological transformations: resilience and adaptability: engage, plan, enact
Sustainability pathways: research and governance
Transformative adaptation: looking at fundamental problems on local and global level

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5 concepts to understand transitions better

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Nonlinearity
Multilevel dynamics
Coevolution
Emergence
Variation and selection

23
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What functions should create (8)

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  • Supply incentives for companies to engage in innovative work
  • Supply resources
  • Guide the direction of search
  • Recognize the potential for growth
  • Facilitate the exchange of information and knowledge
  • Sitmulate/create markets
  • Reduce social uncertainty
  • Counteract the resistance to change
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Why adopting a functions approach (3)

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  • comparison is more feasible
  • systematic method of mapping which creates cumulative and circular causation to appear
  • potential to deliver clear set of policy targets and instruments
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Process approach

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Conceptualize development and change processes as sequences of events
More insight on underlying mechanism

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2 flaws on the concept of innovation systems

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  • too static
  • lacks sufficient attention for the micro level
27
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3 ways of governance

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  • scientific concept
  • normative program
  • critical societal discourse
28
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Challenges of politics (6)

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  • Time pressure
  • Inadequacy of short-termism in policy making
  • Powerful opposing interests
  • Exsisting path dependencies
  • Institutional fragmentation and poor coordination
  • Deficits in representation
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Challenges transformation and politics (what is needed 2)

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  • Ex ante is difficult to do. No real vision of tipping points
  • Not only top-down approach is needed but also bottom-up
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Common characteristics and elements in different approaches to transitions (5)

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  • Multi actor dynamics
  • Reframing the problem
  • Importance of envisioning
  • Importance of experimenting
  • Importance of learning and evaluating
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Proposed set of functions (7)

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  • Entrepreneurial activities
  • Knowledge development
  • Knowledge diffusion through networks
  • Guidance of the search
  • Market formation
  • Resources mobilization
  • Creation of legitimacy/counteract resistance to change
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3 functions of innovation systems

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  • institutions reduce uncertainty by providing information
  • manage conflicts and cooperation
  • provide incentives for innovation

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