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Maria Tomai is a PhD Fellow at United Nations University (UNU-MERIT). Her research focuses on sustainability transitions in urban environments and the use of libertarian paternalism (nudge) strategies for behaviour change. She is particularly interested in how cities in developing countries could transit to a circular economy and what are the mechanisms that could trigger a shift to more sustainable processes and behaviour.
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This paper examines the role of transition factors in the emergence, upscaling, and diffusion of niche innovations in developing countries and juxtaposes them with the case study of a Waste-to-Energy socio-technical niche in the ongoing green transition of Ghana's waste management and energy systems. A systematic literature review of the Multi-Leve...
The literature on socio-technical transitions offers a wide range of frameworks and approaches to conceptualise and steer sustainability transitions. However, the complex nature of transition processes, along with the weak correspondence between the transitions literature and policy design, make their joint application rather challenging. In respon...
