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Professor Dr Derk Loorbach Director of DRIFT and Full Professor of Socio-Economic Transitions at the Faculty of Social Science, Erasmus University Rotterdam. We are moving into a period of unimaginable and unknown turbulence: the pressures have been building up for decades, and acceleration is imminent. Whether we want it or not, the era of improving a fossil-based and linear economy is over while and collapsing. At the same time, we have yet to find an alternative development pathway. In this keynote, Prof Dr Derk Loorbach provides a transition perspective to get a grip on the complexities and uncertainty of this era of transformative change and suggest a way forward: development by design. Acting as chief curator of the International Architecture Biennale in Rotterdam in 2022, he invites designers and researchers to join transition practices to collectively develop imaginative and institutional designs for a nature-positive future. Profile Derk Loorbach is one of the founders of the transition management approach as a new form of governance for sustainable development. He has over one hundred publications in this area and has been involved as an action researcher in numerous transition processes with government, business, civil society and science. He is a frequently invited keynote speaker in and outside Europe. – From Drift for Transition

This article introduces transition management as a new governance approach for sustainable development. Sustainable development is used here as a common notion referring to those persistent problems in (Western industrialized) societies that can only be dealt with on the very long term (decades or more) through specific types of network and decision-making processes. Based on interdisciplinary research into complex processes of long term, structural change in society, basic tenets for complexity-based governance are formulated. These tenets are translated into a framework that distinguishes between four different types of governance activities and their respective roles in societal transitions. This framework can be used for implementation of governance strategies and instruments. The approach and framework have been developed deductively and inductively in the Netherlands since 2000. This article presents the theoretical basis of transition management and will be illustrated by examples from transition management practice, especially the Dutch national energy transition program. Adapted from the source document.

"The Energy Transition, the inevitable shift away from cheap, centralized, largely fossil-based energy systems, is one of the core challenges of our time. This book provides a coherent and novel insight into the nature of this challenge and possible strategies to accelerate and guide such transitions. It brings together prominent European scholars and practitioners from the fields of energy transition research and governance to draw attention to the current complex dynamics in the energy domain, and offer elegant and provocative explanations for current crises and lock-ins. They identify multiple energy transition pathways that emerge and increasingly compete, and emphasize the need and possibilities for novel governance. By analysing the complexity of energy transition processes and the difficulties in shifting to sustainable pathways, this text questions the extent to which actually governing energy transitions is already reality, just an illusion, or a bare necessity."--