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<p>Preface vii</p> <p>Introduction  ix</p> <p><b>Chapter 1. A Necessary Transition? 1</b></p> <p>1.1. Socio-technical systems facing their limits  2</p> <p>1.1.1. Meeting global demographic pressures  3</p> <p>1.1.2. Limiting the depletion of natural resources  4</p> <p>1.1.3. Restrain environmental degradation  5</p> <p>1.2. An analytical framework under construction: the Transition Studies 7</p> <p>1.2.1. The emergence of “Transition Studies”  7</p> <p>1.2.2. The transition as a process of socio-technical systems transformation 8</p> <p>1.2.3. A transition supported by a systemic vision of innovation 11</p> <p>1.3. Eco-innovations: facilitators of the transition?  19</p> <p>1.3.1. Innovation for the environment 19</p> <p>1.3.2. New management and innovation practices 22</p> <p><b>Chapter 2. Energy Transitions 27</b></p> <p>2.1. A socially structuring energy model  29</p> <p>2.2. Fundamentals and characterization of the current energy system 31</p> <p>2.2.1. Energy and the energy system 31</p> <p>2.2.2. From primary energy to final energy 32</p> <p>2.3. The limits of the current energy system  34</p> <p>2.3.1. An evolution of the world’s energy consumption…  35</p> <p>2.3.2. …which shrinks fossil energy reserves…  36</p> <p>2.3.3. …and generates local and global environmental damage  38</p> <p>2.4. Innovation in the energy transition 40</p> <p>2.4.1. Improving the current system of energy production and adapting existing technologies to new constraints 41</p> <p>2.4.2. Producing energy differently from non-carbon resources  43</p> <p>2.4.3. Using energy differently: electromobility 47</p> <p>2.4.4. Transition to a radically new energy system: the hydrogen economy  50</p> <p>2.5. Barriers of the energy transition 55</p> <p>2.5.1. Market failures  55</p> <p>2.5.2. Systemic failures 56</p> <p><b>Chapter 3. Agro-ecological Transitions 59</b></p> <p>3.1. The notion of agro-ecology 60</p> <p>3.1.1. Towards an ecologically intensive agriculture…  60</p> <p>3.1.2. … and a sustainable food regime  61</p> <p>3.2. The implementation of the agro-ecological transition  61</p> <p>3.2.1. Changing agricultural production systems  62</p> <p>3.2.2. Eco-innovations in agribusiness companies: a recent and moderate development  63</p> <p>3.2.3. Consumers committed to the environment  65</p> <p>3.3. Obstacles and levers for the agro-ecological transition 69</p> <p>3.3.1. Process of locking and unlocking 69</p> <p>3.3.2. Obstacles to the development of new agricultural practices  71</p> <p>3.3.3. Blockages on the side of the agri-food sector  77</p> <p>3.4. The levers for agro-ecological transition: the role of public policies 79</p> <p>Conclusion 87</p> <p>Bibliography  91</p> <p>Index 115</p>

<p><b>Fabienne PICARD</b>, Associate Professor, IRTES-RECITS, FCLab, University of Technology Belfort-Montbéliard, France.</p> <p><b>Corinne TANGUY</b>, Associate Professor, CESAER (UMR INRA-Agrosup Dijon), Agrosup Dijon, France.</p>

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