Global climate change represents one of the grand societal challenges which policy makers around the world have agreed to jointly tackle it under the Paris Agreement. Henceforth, much research and policy advice has focused on de-veloping model-based scenarios to identify pathways towards...

The paper distinguishes four views on the impact of the financial-economic crisis on sustainability transitions (operationalized as diffusion of green niche-innovations). The first three views highlight the possibility of positive impacts of the financial-economic crisis on sustainability...

This article aims to explain the rapid destabilisation of the German electricity industry between 1998 and 2015. The longitudinal case study uses analytical categories from a multi-dimensional framework, which emphasises the importance of external pressures on the industry (both techno-economic...