- What criteria should the action plan meet?
- What external information do I require?
- Who do I involve in the implementation?
- What support is useful for a transition?
- Does my experiment need protection?
- Why is learning important?
- What are important learning objectives?
- What should I do with what is learned?
- How do I handle opposition?
- How to deal with a threatened loss of support?
- What do I need to think of in terms of communication?
Why is learning important?
Learning is important for two reasons. This first is connected with the dynamics, risks and uncertainties inherent to transition projects and their long-term objective. It is therefore useful to learn about the preconditions for system innovations and potential paths to solutions from successful projects, but equally from ‘failed' projects. A second reason is that system innovations, and therefore also transition projects, are influenced by how stakeholders define problems and their assumptions, knowledge, values and identities. Analysing these, and critically assessing them, can help to prevent lock in and widen the scope for sustainable solutions.
Examples
- Learning in a sustainable water management project
- Learning while designing an energy neutral building