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Blog - November 15, 2021

Transformative Investment for Impact in the 21st Century towards the Sustainability Revolution and Beyond COP 26

Geraldine Bloomfield, Johan Schot, Caetano Penna, Ed Steinmueller, Jack Davies
    This blog reviews a few new ideas on Transformative Investment research from the Deep Transitions Futures project. The Deep Transitions Futures project is run by an interlinking team of researchers and science communicators from the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the University of Sussex Business School, and the Utrecht University Centre for…
Blog - April 29, 2022

An introduction to the Deep Transitions Futures methodology

Wendy Schultz
We all want a sustainable future, and a better future for ourselves, our families, our children and our communities. But what could that ‘better future’ look like? Any future more desirable than our present will require trade-offs. After all, we all don’t want exactly the same things out of life. Deep Transitions Futures is exploring…
Blog - March 28, 2022

Crowdsourcing The Future: Summary of Results and Insights

Wendy Schultz, Victoria Ward, Carla Alvial Palavicino, Jenny Witte
Background & Demographics The “Crowdsourcing The Future” initiative was launched as part of the Deep Transitions Futures scenario work which introduced three alternative futures that are more fit for tackling global challenges such as climate change and growing inequality. The aim of the crowdsourcing initiative was to critically scrutinise the three future worlds and to…
Launch event Deep Transitions Futures and Global Investors Panel
Blog - October 14, 2021

Global Investors Lead the Charge on Climate Crisis with Creation of New Investments in Transformation

Geraldine Bloomfield
Currently, leaders from around the world are galvanising towards the 26th Community of Parties (COP) conference on international climate action. There have been twenty-five previous COPs, but this one is crucial. It is the absolute tipping point for the world.  As governments, policymakers, activists and businesses jostle and joust through debate and negotiations on targets,…
Blog - February 25, 2021

Grassroots Innovations for Sustainable Development – A DT Dialogue with Johan Schot and Adrian Smith

Jenny Witte, Adrian Smith
According to Smith and Seyfang (2007), the term ‘grassroots innovations’ describes networks of activists and organisations that generate novel bottom–up solutions for sustainable development –solutions that respond to the local situation and the interests and values of the communities involved. This differs from more mainstream greening practices in the sense that grassroots initiatives operate in…
Blog - November 23, 2020

How to Identify Rules from Text Mining

Frederique Bone, Daniele Rotolo
Technologies can shape society and individual behaviours. Historical data helps to understand how different socio-economic actors within society, can influence the emergence of new technologies within and across different socio-technical systems (e.g. mobility, food, energy). Traditional historical work on understanding technological evolution and diffusion has relied on examining archives in considerable detail, but this meant…
Blog - November 4, 2020

Power to the people? The role of citizen collectives in fighting climate change: A #DTdialogue with Johan Schot and Tine de Moor

Jenny Witte
In pre-modern times commons or citizen collectives were an important mode of governance, in which groups of people collectively managed and used a collective resource, such as land, watercourses or fisheries. Commons functioned according to three underlying principles namely, solidarity, reciprocity and sufficiency. This implied that members of the commons could take as much as…
Blog - October 22, 2020

Redirecting Public Finance in the Global South to Support Deep Transitions (Fancy Footwork and Windows of Opportunity)

David Walwyn
Transitions in the Global South share many aspects with similar processes in developed countries.  However, there are a number of important asymmetries which disproportionally affect the Global South, and will alter the timescales and the nature of sustainability transitions in these countries. One aspect, which has received a great deal of attention in the literature,…
Blog - July 27, 2020

Deep Transitions, Green Transitions, Just Transitions: A #DTdialogue with Johan Schot and Mark Swilling

Jenny Witte
In this #DTdialogue Johan Schot and Mark Swilling reflect on Professor Swillings well-received book called “The Age of Sustainability: Just Transitions in a Complex World” and relate the findings of the book to the Deep Transitions Framework.  Professor Swilling’s book, which Johan Schot describes as ‘an eyeopener’, is highly relevant to Deep Transitions research as…