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Deep Transitions
A research framework for long-term change across multiple socio-technical systems. Shared rules help explain common directions such as fossil-fuel dependence; a proposed Second Deep Transition towards sustainability and justice remains an ambition and research proposition.
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Summary
A research framework for long-term change across multiple socio-technical systems. Shared rules help explain common directions such as fossil-fuel dependence; a proposed Second Deep Transition towards sustainability and justice remains an ambition and research proposition.
Implications for practice
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Key distinctions
- source account vs editorial application
- single-system change vs cross-system rules
Historical development
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Further developments
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Connections to practice
- Specify the rule, its enforcement and who can change it.
Common confusions
- Treating transition levels as VSM systems or organisational ranks.
Further checks
- Independent expert review and further empirical comparison remain open.
Recorded connections
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The paper proposes the Deep Transitions framework; this relation does not establish that the whole theory has been empirically confirmed.
Locator: Abstract and framework discussion
- Deep transitions: Emergence, acceleration, stabilization and directionality (source scoped research pass)
Claims and disputes
The paper proposes the Deep Transitions framework; this relation does not establish that the whole theory has been empirically confirmed.
Claim status: candidate. Review status: research pass needs editor.
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Supporting sources
- Deep transitions: Emergence, acceleration, stabilization and directionality (source scoped research pass)
Sources and passage locators
- Deep transitions: Emergence, acceleration, stabilization and directionality (source scoped research pass)
- Deep Transitions (source scoped research pass)
- A Guide to Deep Transitions (source scoped research pass)
- Deep transitions: Emergence, acceleration, stabilization and directionality: Abstract and framework discussion · research pass needs editor
Cite this entry
Taylor, B. P. (2026). Deep Transitions. The Necessary Tangle, release 0.35. https://transduction.systems/entries/framework_deep_transitions/
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