Transition management (governance)

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Transition management is a governance approach that aims to facilitate and accelerate sustainability transitions through a participatory process of visioning, learning and experimenting.^[1][2][3] In its application, transition management seeks to bring together multiple viewpoints and multiple approaches in a 'transition arena'. Participants are invited to structure their shared problems with the current system and develop shared visions and goals which are then tested for practicality through the use of experimentation, learning and reflexivity. The model is often discussed in reference to sustainable development and the possible use of the model as a method for change.

Key principles to transition management as a form of governance:^[4]

• seeks to widen participation by taking a multi-actor approach in order to encompass societal values and beliefs
• takes a long-term perspective (between 1-3 generations) creating a basket of visions in which short-term objectives can be identified
• focused on learning at the niche level, experiments are used to identify how successful a particular pathway could be and uses the concept of "Learn by doing, doing by learning"^[4]
• a systems thinking approach which identifies that problems will span multiple domains, levels and actors.^[1]