Bipashyee Ghosh

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Research Associate at SPRU- Science Policy Reseach Unit, University of Sussex

Transformative Innovation Policy (TIP) is an emerging approach to science, technology, and innovation policy that addresses social and environmental challenges. While TIP literature highlights the importance of considering multiple innovation pathways, it often overlooks the injustices hindering them. This paper explores how the Capability Approach...

In the past decade, the geographical and conceptual breadth of sustainability transitions have remarkably expanded, especially in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Increasing attention is paid to social, economic and environmental issues in the ‘Global South’ where decades of colonial rule have shaped the local infrastructures and institutions. In re...

This report is part of the project 'Research on Transition Indicators, to enable follow-up on the Global Stocktake and support the implemclimateentation of national NDCs'. Through a research exercise based on a series of country case studies, the 'Research on Transition Indicators' project will create a set of national-level transition indicators t...

Here we propose a framework for considering the justice issues of industrial cluster decarbonisation, a pressing challenge confronting many industrialised economies. Industrial clusters are large, multi-point source emitters, users of energy and employers of regional and national significance. In the UK, establishing low carbon industrial clusters...

The sustainability transitions field has been dominated by studies on single systems. Expanding the scope to Deep Transitions involving interactions between a broad array of socio-technical systems opens up new research directions in three important domains: 1) areas of intervention; 2) transition justice; 3) accelerating actors.

Recently diversity in transitions research has achieved increasing attention. Many diversity dimensions such as gender and geographical location, as well as their intersections, should be considered to achieve successful and just transitions. Currently, transitions research is diverse in some aspects, but the broader framework for diverse transitio...

The impending climate emergency, the Paris agreement and Sustainable Development Goals demand significant transformations in economies and societies. Science funders, innovation agencies, and scholars have explored new rationales and processes for policymaking, such as transformative innovation policy (TIP). Here, we address the question of how to...

This paper examines two bikeshare programs implemented in two Global South cities, examining the role of users in promoting sustainable transport. To explore the sustainability of smart cycling, we argue that it is important to understand the prevailing administrative and socio-institutional practices within a given context. For the effective stabi...

‘Smart cities’ as sociotechnical imaginaries have been enthusiastically embraced by urban planners and policymakers around the world. In 2014, the government of India launched its Smart Cities Mission ostensibly to create socially inclusive and sustainable cities. Aspiring to make their cities smart, and following guidelines provided by the nationa...

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Mobility systems in megacities are facing persistent sustainability problems. A focus on regime shift in transitions literature in addressing these problems reflects a western bias as it relies on niches as sources of change. In megacities like in Kolkata, India, public transportation is dominant, and actors are more concerned to improve and upgrad...

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Cycling is a key mobility option for low income citizens in India. Currently the cycling regime in Indian megacities are undergoing substantial changes, owing to emergence of new smart ‘niches’ on one hand and destabilisation of the existing cycling practice on the other. These changes are driven by (often contradicting) visions of sustainable mobi...

It is generally accepted that the concept of sustainability is not straightforward, but is subject to on-going ambiguities, uncertainties and contestations. Yet literature on sustainability transitions has so far only engaged in limited ways with the resulting tough questions around what sustainability means, to whom and in which contexts. This pap...

Asia’s rapidly growing cities are gearing up to meet increasing mobility needs while simultaneously striving to achieve sustainability goals. A number of new innovations are being introduced in the form of experiments aiming to change the systems and rule-sets that currently dominate the provision of mobility services in Asian cities. This chapter...