Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/125702 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
WWWforEurope Working Paper No. 48
Publisher: 
WWWforEurope, Vienna
Abstract: 
This short paper considers all possible stakeholders in different stages of a sustainability transition and matches their behavioral features and diversity to policies. This will involve an assessment of potential or expected responses of stakeholders to a range of policy instruments. Following the Multi-Level Perspective framework to conceptualize sustainability transitions, we classify the various transition policies at niche, regime and landscape levels. Next, we offer a complementary classification of policies based on a distinction between social preferences and bounded rationality. The paper identifies many barriers to making a sustainability transition and how to respond to them. In addition, lessons are drawn from the case of Denmark. The detailed framework and associated literature for the analysis was discussed in Milestone 31 of the WWWforEurope project (Gazheli et al., 2012).
Subjects: 
Behavioural economics
beyond GDP
ecological innovation
economic strategy
entrepreneurship
European economic policy
European governance
good governance
industrial innovation
industrial policy
innovation
innovation policy
multi-level governance
policy options
political economy of policy reform
social innovation
socio-ecological transition
JEL: 
D1
D2
D7
D8
E6
H2
L2
L5
O2
Q5
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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