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Learning through Evaluation: A Tentative Evaluative Scheme for Sustainability Transition Experiments

Luederitz, Christopher ; Schäpke, Niko ; Wiek, Arnim ; Lang, Daniel ; Bergmann, Matthias ; Bos, Joannette ; Burch, Sarah ; Davies, Anna ; Evans, James and König, Ariane , et al. (2017) In Journal of Cleaner Production 169. p.61-76
Abstract
Transitions towards sustainability are urgently needed to address the interconnected challenges of economic development, ecological integrity, and social justice, from local to global scales. Around the world, collaborative science-society initiatives are forming to conduct experiments in support of sustainability transitions. Such experiments, if carefully designed, provide significant learning opportunities for making progress on transition efforts. Yet, there is no broadly applicable evaluative scheme available to capture this critical information across a large number of cases, and to guide the design of transition experiments. To address this gap, the article develops such a scheme, in a tentative form, drawing on evaluative research... (More)
Transitions towards sustainability are urgently needed to address the interconnected challenges of economic development, ecological integrity, and social justice, from local to global scales. Around the world, collaborative science-society initiatives are forming to conduct experiments in support of sustainability transitions. Such experiments, if carefully designed, provide significant learning opportunities for making progress on transition efforts. Yet, there is no broadly applicable evaluative scheme available to capture this critical information across a large number of cases, and to guide the design of transition experiments. To address this gap, the article develops such a scheme, in a tentative form, drawing on evaluative research and sustainability transitions scholarship, alongside insights from empirical cases. We critically discuss the scheme's key features of being generic, comprehensive, operational, and formative. Furthermore, we invite scholars and practitioners to apply, reflect and further develop the proposed tentative scheme – making evaluation and experiments objects of learning. (Less)
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urban, sustainability, transitions
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Journal of Cleaner Production
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169
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61 - 76
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Elsevier
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  • scopus:84995542947
  • wos:000413377200007
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0959-6526
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English
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  abstract     = {{Transitions towards sustainability are urgently needed to address the interconnected challenges of economic development, ecological integrity, and social justice, from local to global scales. Around the world, collaborative science-society initiatives are forming to conduct experiments in support of sustainability transitions. Such experiments, if carefully designed, provide significant learning opportunities for making progress on transition efforts. Yet, there is no broadly applicable evaluative scheme available to capture this critical information across a large number of cases, and to guide the design of transition experiments. To address this gap, the article develops such a scheme, in a tentative form, drawing on evaluative research and sustainability transitions scholarship, alongside insights from empirical cases. We critically discuss the scheme's key features of being generic, comprehensive, operational, and formative. Furthermore, we invite scholars and practitioners to apply, reflect and further develop the proposed tentative scheme – making evaluation and experiments objects of learning.}},
  author       = {{Luederitz, Christopher and Schäpke, Niko and Wiek, Arnim and Lang, Daniel and Bergmann, Matthias and Bos, Joannette and Burch, Sarah and Davies, Anna and Evans, James and König, Ariane and Farrelly, Megan and Forrest, Nigel and Frantzeskaki, Niki and Gibson, Robert and Kay, Braden and Loorbach, Derk and McCormick, Kes and Parodi, Oliver and Rauschmayer, Felix and Schneidewind, Uwe and Stauffacher, Michael and Stelzer, Franziska and Trencher, Gregory and Venjakob, Johannes and Vergragt, Philip and von Wehrden, Henrik and Westley, Frances}},
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  language     = {{eng}},
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  series       = {{Journal of Cleaner Production}},
  title        = {{Learning through Evaluation: A Tentative Evaluative Scheme for Sustainability Transition Experiments}},
  url          = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/58104318/Luederitz_et_al._2016_JCP_.pdf}},
  volume       = {{169}},
  year         = {{2017}},
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