英文摘要 |
Since the early 2000s, several European countries have embraced sustainability as the cornerstone of their national development strategies. Their policymakers usually work closely with scholars to develop creative governance approaches that could help them realize and facilitate their countries’ transition to sustainability. The new field of transition studies (TS) has grown rapidly and substantially. Several European governments, as well as the governing bodies of different international organizations such as the European Environmental Agency, have invested large grants in the field and helped build several research institutions. The Transition Study inherits academic assets from governance studies. It also invites research from interdisciplinary fields like science and technology studies and system theories to address the fundamental question of how to achieve transition. With its rapid growth, TS faces both theoretical and practical criticism. This review article attempts to trace TS’s theoretical background and to analyze how it has evolved in other fields, with a focus on one of its sub-policy approaches, Transition Management (TMgt). It also presents an analysis of how TS and TMgt respond to their respective challenges. Based on this analysis, TS and TMgt have gained enough momentum so that they will be able to generate significant impacts on both practical policymaking and academic studies. In addition, this article suggests that Taiwan’s net zero policy should use them as scientific backbones in order to achieve a national sustainability transition. |