ABSTRACT
The MLP delivers a somewhat standardized representation of transitions, which many scholars now refer to. This chapter further differentiates the MLP and proposes a typology of four transition paths. The MLP, as represented in Chapter 2, implicitly assumes a technological substitution pathway, where one radical innovation emerges and subsequently replaces the existing regime. However, this is just one path transition can take. The typology we propose is constructed through the use of three criteria (for other attempts we refer to Berkhout et al., 2004; De Haan and Rotmans, forthcoming): 1) timing of interactions; 2) nature of interactions; 3) types of landscape change.
