TY - JOUR U1 - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed) A1 - Luederitz, Christopher A1 - Schäpke, Niko A1 - Wiek, Arnim A1 - Lang, Daniel J. A1 - Bergmann, Matthias A1 - Bos, Joanette J. A1 - Burch, Sarah A1 - Davies, Anna A1 - Evans, James A1 - König, Ariane A1 - Farrelly, Megan A. A1 - Forrest, Nigel A1 - Frantzeskaki, Niki A1 - Gibson, Robert B. A1 - Kay, Braden A1 - Loorbach, Derk A1 - McCormick, Kes A1 - Parodi, Oliver A1 - Rauschmayer, Felix A1 - Schneidewind, Uwe A1 - Stauffacher, Michael A1 - Stelzer, Franziska A1 - Trencher, Gregory A1 - Venjakob, Johannes A1 - Vergragt, Philip J. A1 - Wehrden, Henrik von A1 - Westley, Frances R. T1 - Learning through evaluation : a tentative evaluative scheme for sustainability transition experiments N2 - Transitions towards sustainability are urgently needed to address the interconnected challenges of economic development, ecological integrity, and social justice, from local to global scales. Around the world, collaborative science-society initiatives are forming to conduct experiments in support of sustainability transitions. Such experiments, if carefully designed, provide significant learning opportunities for making progress on transition efforts. Yet, there is no broadly applicable evaluative scheme available to capture this critical information across a large number of cases, and to guide the design of transition experiments. To address this gap, the article develops such a scheme, in a tentative form, drawing on evaluative research and sustainability transitions scholarship, alongside insights from empirical cases. We critically discuss the scheme's key features of being generic, comprehensive, operational, and formative. Furthermore, we invite scholars and practitioners to apply, reflect and further develop the proposed tentative scheme - making evaluation and experiments objects of learning. T2 - Journal of cleaner production VL - 169 Y1 - 2017 UN - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bsz:wup4-opus-64851 U6 - https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.09.005 DO - https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.09.005 SP - 61 EP - 76 ER -