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.
Second, more attention could be paid to landscape developments that help stabilize existingregimes. 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, forinstance, are stabilized by landscape trends such as (Geels et al., 2011): (a) globalization and increasingworld-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) ashift towards a network society that generates increasing flows and ‘space of flows’ that facilitatethem. A subsequent puzzle then becomes how to determine the relative influence of stabilizing anddestabilizing landscape developments.
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