Shaping Sustainable and Just Transitions towards more open and socially inclusive foresight processes

Forelæsning af Professor Malcolm Eames, Low Carbon Research Institute,
Welsh School of Architectures, Cardiff University

In recent years growing international recognition and
acceptance of the magnitude of the threat posed by
global climate change has meant that the rhetoric of
transitions and talk of the ‘transition to a low carbon
economy’ in particular has come to feature
prominently as part of the mainstream political
agenda. However, socio-technological transitions are
complex processes. Purposively shaping and driving
forward such transitions presents an inherently
wicked problem for which much of our current
policymaking, institutional and governance structures
are poorly suited.