Pant, Laxmi Prasad, Adhikari, Bhim and Bhattarai, Kiran Kumari (2015) Adaptive transition for transformations to sustainability in developing countries. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 14. pp. 206-212. ISSN 1877-3435 (doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2015.07.006)

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Abstract

Adaptation and transition are two prominent sustainability science concepts. The former includes one facet of resilience, the capacity of socio-ecological systems to continually change and adapt within their critical thresholds with some exceptional transformability beyond thresholds. The latter concept entails niche experimentation of low-carbon systems and how niche-internal actors influence transformational changes, so-called sustainability transitions, and are influenced by incumbent socio-technical regime. Critics argue that neither adaptation literature nor transition literature sufficiently informs adaptive transition pathways that need to be responsive to already low-carbon subsistence production systems in many developing countries. Recognizing this gap, this paper, albeit in a modest way, develops a framework of adaptive transition integrating socio-ecological systems approaches to adaptation to change referred to as adaptive management, and socio-technical systems approaches to management of change referred to as transition management.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	agriculture, food, sustainability transition, socio-ecological systems, socio-technical systems, innovation systems
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Engineering & Science Faculty of Engineering & Science > Natural Resources Institute Faculty of Engineering & Science > Natural Resources Institute > Livelihoods & Institutions Department
Last Modified:	10 Jan 2020 09:18
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/26579

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