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Jochen Markard

Jochen Markard

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
44
Citations
17874
World Ranking
3988
National Ranking
30

Overview

Jochen Markard is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland and conducts research primarily within the field of Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Economics and Econometrics, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The main topics addressed in their research involve Sustainability and Climate Change Governance, Climate Change Policy and Economics, Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy, Global Energy and Sustainability Research, Environmental Impact and Sustainability, Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure, and Complex Systems and Decision Making.

Markard has published extensively, with recent papers including:

  • Challenges in the acceleration of sustainability transitions (2020) published in Environmental Research Letters
  • Destined for decline? Examining nuclear energy from a technological innovation systems perspective (2020) published in Energy Research & Social Science
  • A tale of two crises: COVID-19 and climate (2020) published in Sustainability Science Practice and Policy

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Energy Research & Social Science
  • Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Environmental Research Letters

Markard collaborates with various co-authors, with frequent partners including Daniel Rosenbloom, Frank W. Geels, Alejandro Nuñez-Jimenez, Rob Raven, and Lea Fuenfschilling.

Best Publications

  • Sustainability transitions: an emerging field of research and its prospects

    Jochen Markard;Rob Raven;Bernhard Truffer

  • An agenda for sustainability transitions research: State of the art and future directions

    Jonathan Köhler;Frank W. Geels;Florian Kern;Jochen Markard

  • Technological innovation systems and the multi-level perspective: Towards an integrated framework

    Jochen Markard;Bernhard Truffer

  • Sustainability transitions in the making: A closer look at actors, strategies and resources

    Jacco Farla;Jochen Markard;Rob Raven;Lars Coenen

  • Technological innovation systems in contexts: conceptualizing contextual structures and interaction dynamics

    Anna Bergek;Marko Hekkert;Staffan Jacobsson;Jochen Markard

  • The next phase of the energy transition and its implications for research and policy

    Jochen Markard

  • Innovation processes in large technical systems: Market liberalization as a driver for radical change?

    Jochen Markard;Bernhard Truffer

  • Networks and network resources in technological innovation systems: Towards a conceptual framework for system building

    Jörg Musiolik;Jochen Markard;Marko Hekkert

  • Socio-Technical Transitions and Policy Change - Advocacy Coalitions in Swiss Energy Policy

    Jochen Markard;Marco Suter;Karin Ingold;Karin Ingold;Karin Ingold

  • Opinion: Why carbon pricing is not sufficient to mitigate climate change-and how "sustainability transition policy" can help.

    Daniel Rosenbloom;Jochen Markard;Frank W. Geels;Lea Fuenfschilling

  • Institutional dynamics and technology legitimacy - A framework and a case study on biogas technology

    Jochen Markard;Steffen Wirth;Bernhard Truffer;Bernhard Truffer

  • The technological innovation systems framework: Response to six criticisms

    Jochen Markard;Marko Hekkert;Staffan Jacobsson

  • Challenges in the acceleration of sustainability transitions

    Jochen Markard;Jochen Markard;Frank W. Geels;Rob Raven

  • The life cycle of technological innovation systems

    Jochen Markard

  • Transformation of Infrastructures: Sector Characteristics and Implications for Fundamental Change

    Jochen Markard

  • Policies, actors and sustainability transition pathways: A study of the EU's energy policy mix

    Marie Byskov Lindberg;Jochen Markard;Allan Dahl Andersen

  • Creating and shaping innovation systems: Formal networks in the innovation system for stationary fuel cells in Germany

    Jörg Musiolik;Jochen Markard

  • What happens after a hype? How changing expectations affected innovation activities in the case of stationary fuel cells

    Annette Ruef;Jochen Markard

  • Eco-labeling of electricity-strategies and tradeoffs in the definition of environmental standards

    Bernhard Truffer;Jochen Markard;Rolf Wüstenhagen

  • Actor-oriented analysis of innovation systems: exploring micro–meso level linkages in the case of stationary fuel cells

    Jochen Markard;Bernhard Truffer

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank W. Geels
Frank W. Geels University of Manchester
Rob Raven
Rob Raven Monash University
Staffan Jacobsson
Staffan Jacobsson Chalmers University of Technology
Willi Gujer
Willi Gujer Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Alfred Wüest
Alfred Wüest Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Benjamin K. Sovacool
Benjamin K. Sovacool University of Sussex
Gill Seyfang
Gill Seyfang University of East Anglia
Paula Kivimaa
Paula Kivimaa University of Sussex

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