Transition Management

Transition management is introduced in this book as a new mode of governance for sustainable development. The rationale behind transition management is that we are facing persistent societal problems of such complexity, that we cannot easily solve them by means of traditional approaches. In areas like energy, mobility,agriculture and water management, but also in health care, education and housing, sustainability can not be delivered by top-down approaches or bottom-up innovation and liberalization strategies only. For this, governance approaches are needed that are able to take into account a very long time horizon, a multitude of actors with different perspectives, different levels of scale and uncertain future development. By taking societal compexity as point of departure, transition management offers an integrative framework to combine regular and innovative approaches and instruments for social innovation towards sustainability.Transition management combines long-term