Selective Directory of Transition Research Projects

Collected here are summaries and outputs from a selection of Transition-related research projects. This list is far from comprehensive, consisting of projects initiated within TRN plus selected affiliated projects.

If you are involved in a Transiton-related research project and would like to include it here, please contact us with details. You are also welcome to contribute a blog post about your research.

Thematic Projects

• Connection, Participation and Empowerment in Community-Based Research: the Case of the Transition Movement (UK)
• Monitoring and Evaluation for Sustainable Communities
• Sustaining Time: Exploring the new times of alternative economies
• The Transition Model and uses of Strategic Planning
• FaST-In: Failure and Success of Transition Initiatives
• Food sustainability transitions: what citizen-consumer role for the Transition movement? [PDF]

National Studies

• Barriers and Opportunities for Building Resilience: A Critical Assessment of Transition Initiatives in Spain
• In Pursuit of Transition: Some Aspects of the Role of Passion and Motivation in the Transition Movement (USA)
• Transition, a force in the Great Turning?  (Australia)
• Transition Emerging Study: Researching Transition in Canada
• A quantitative analysis of the potential of Transition Towns for greenhouse gas reduction in Spain: Masters Thesis
  

Local Studies

• Embodying Economic Change: Degrowth and localisation practices in Totnes, UK
• Memories of Mr Seel's Garden: Past and future food systems in Liverpool
• Action research on local community action in Ein-Hod, Israel