Exploring the governance and politics of transformations towards sustainability

Highlights

• ‘Transformations towards sustainability’ are increasingly discussed and debated.
• Governance and politics are central to understanding and analysing transformations.
• We critically survey four prominent conceptual approaches to transformations.
• We reflect on these approaches through the lens of the ‘Earth System Governance’ framework.
• We identify rich existing insights as well as research challenges and opportunities.

James Patterson, Karsten Schulz, Joost Vervoort, Sandra van der Hel, Oscar Widerberg, Carolina Adler, Margot Hurlbert, Karen Anderton, Mahendra Sethi, Aliyu Barau