Caution! Transitions Ahead: Politics, Practice, and Sustainable Transition Management

作者：Elizabeth Shove, Gordon Walker · 发表于：Environment and Planning A Economy and Space · 年份：2007 · DOI：10.1068/a39310 · 被引用次数：1005 · 研究领域：Community Development and Social Impact、Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism、Economic Theory and Policy

The critique of the inanities and injustices of present society, however obvious they may be, is disqualified by a simple reminder that remaking society by design may only make it worse than it was.Alternative ends are invalidated on the strength of the proved ineffectuality of means" (Bauman 1991; 269) Green ( 2006) is not alone in contending that "environmental 'crises' require fundamental changes in the socio-technological structure of the way we live and work".For those concerned with sustainability, the idea of transition -of substantial change and movement from one state to another -has powerful normative attractions.If 'we' can steer change, shape future development and manage movement in desired directions, perhaps 'we' can make the environment a better and more sustainable place in which to live.But how so to do?In a manifestly complex world dominated by hegemonic ideologies of neoliberal capitalism, global finance and commodity flows is it really possible to intervene and deliberately shift technologies, practices and social arrangements -not to mention their systemic interaction and interdependencies -on to an altogether different, altogether more sustainable track?Across the board there is growing recognition of the holistic, unavoidably interrelated nature of contemporary environmental problems and of the need for fresh approaches and forms of governance capable of engaging with complex challenges of this kind.Theories and models of sustainable transition managem...