Establishing Transition Pathways for Sustainability
Sustainability transitions refer to the process through which entire sectors such as energy, food, or transportation change fundamentally. Transition pathways are defined as semi-coherent patterns of major changes in the configuration of a socio-technical system, which are subject to continual processes of political contestation. They provide a useful approach to planetary health and help to understand, define, and implement the way change can happen at a systems-level and identify bottlenecks to overcome. This thematic area will provide an opportunity to further address the inter-dependencies of the SDGs, understand transition pathways towards achieving the interrelated goals, and enable the major shifts required to create sustainable transition pathways.