Sustainable Consumption Institute

Bruno is a Research Associate in the Sustainable Consumption Institute. He holds a PhD from the University of Sussex (SPRU). His research focuses on various aspects related to sustainability transitions, including questions of governance, the influence of normative problems, the destabilisation of dominant regimes, the role of innovation and experimentation, and conceptual integration of research approaches. His empirical research interest span transitions in the energy, mobility, and agri-food domains. 

Bruno is currently working on a CIED-funded (www.cied.ac.uk) project analysing the emergence of light rail and modern trams as a socio-technical proposition for urban mobility, comparing developments in different national context (UK, France, and beyond).

Bruno is also a Research Associate at King’s College London (Geography) and an Associate Fellow at the University of Sussex (SPRU).

Selected publications:

Turnheim, B, Berkhout, F., Geels, F.W., Hof, A., McMeekin, A., Nykvist, B., van Vuuren, D., 2015, Evaluating sustainability transitions pathways: Bridging analytical approaches to address governance challenges, Global Environmental Change, 35, 239-253.

Turnheim, B., Geels, F.W., 2013. The destabilisation of existing regimes in socio-technical transitions: Confronting a multi-dimensional framework with a case study of the British coal industry (1913-1967), Research Policy 42:1759-67.

Turnheim, B., Geels, F.W., 2012. Regime destabilisation as the flipside of energy transitions: Lessons from the history of the British coal industry (1913-1997), Energy Policy 50:35-49.

Tezcan, M. and Turnheim, B., 2010. Complex Governance to Cope with Global Environmental Risk: An assessment of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Science and Engineering Ethics 16(3):517-533.

Sterner, T., Turnheim, B., 2008. Innovation and Diffusion of Environmental Technology: Industrial NOx Abatement in Sweden under Refunded Emission Payments, Ecological Economics 68(12):2996-3006.