Second, more attention could be paid to landscape developments that help stabilize existing
regimes. Studies of sustainability transitions often highlight landscape trends that (could) exert desta-bilizing influences on regimes, e.g. climate change or Peak Oil. But balanced assessments of (chances for)
transitions should also address stabilizing landscape developments. Car-based mobility systems, for
instance, are stabilized by landscape trends such as (Geels et al., 2011): (a) globalization and increasing
world-trade, (b) individualization and people becoming more footloose, (c) rapidly growing international tourism, (d) growing wealth and the rise of second and third cars in households, and (e) a
shift towards a network society that generates increasing flows and ‘space of flows’ that facilitate
them. A subsequent puzzle then becomes how to determine the relative influence of stabilizing and
destabilizing landscape developments.