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Rob Raven is affiliated with Monash University in Australia and primarily works within the field of Environmental Science. Their research spans several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Management of Technology and Innovation, Sociology and Political Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Strategy and Management.

Their main research topics focus on Sustainability and Climate Change Governance, Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development, Smart Cities and Technologies, Environmental Education and Sustainability, Sustainable Building Design and Assessment, Sustainable Supply Chain Management, and Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy.

Rob Raven's recent publications include:

  • Scientific evidence on the political impact of the Sustainable Development Goals, 2022, Nature Sustainability
  • Challenges in the acceleration of sustainability transitions, 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals Requires Transdisciplinary Innovation at the Local Scale, 2020, One Earth
  • Towards a multi-level framework of household food waste and consumer behaviour: Untangling spaghetti soup, 2020, Appetite
  • Towards environmentally sustainable food systems: decision-making factors in sustainable food production and consumption, 2020, Sustainable Production and Consumption

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Rob Raven include:

  • Shirin Malekpour
  • Ruth Lane
  • Darren Sharp
  • Enayat A. Moallemi
  • Jo Lindsay

Rob Raven has published extensively in several venues, with notable frequent publications in:

  • Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Technological Forecasting and Social Change
  • Energy Research & Social Science
  • Environmental Science & Policy

In addition to journal articles, Rob Raven has a book publication titled Urban Nature, published by Cambridge University Press in 2024.

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

  • What is protective space? Reconsidering niches in transitions to sustainability

    AG Smith;Rpjm Rob Raven

  • Non-linearity and Expectations in Niche-Development Trajectories: Ups and Downs in Dutch Biogas Development (1973–2003)

    FW Frank Geels;Rpjm Rob Raven

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

    Jacco Farla;Jochen Markard;Rob Raven;Lars Coenen

  • Experimenting for sustainability transitions: A systematic literature review

    Frans Sengers;Anna J. Wieczorek;Rob Raven

  • Space and scale in socio-technical transitions

    Rpjm Rob Raven;JW Johan Schot;F Berkhout

  • Scientific evidence on the political impact of the Sustainable Development Goals

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  • The Experimental City

    James Evans;Andrew Karvonen;Robert Petrus Johannes Maria Raven

  • Biogas plants in Denmark: successes and setbacks

    Rpjm Rob Raven;KH Gregersen

  • Urban greening through nature-based solutions – Key characteristics of an emerging concept

    Hade Dorst;Alexander van der Jagt;Rob Raven;Rob Raven;Hens Runhaar;Hens Runhaar

  • Transitions and strategic niche management: towards a competence kit for practitioners

    Rob Raven;Suzanne van den Bosch;Rob Weterings

  • Sustainability experiments in Asia: innovations shaping alternative development pathways?

    Frans Berkhout;Geert Verbong;Anna J. Wieczorek;Rob Raven

  • The geography of sustainability transitions: Contours of an emerging theme

    Bernhard Truffer;Bernhard Truffer;James T. Murphy;Rob Raven

  • Niche construction and empowerment through socio-political work. A meta-analysis of six low-carbon technology cases

    Rob Raven;Rob Raven;Florian Kern;Bram Verhees;Adrian Smith

  • Challenges in the acceleration of sustainability transitions

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

  • Niche accumulation and hybridisation strategies in transition processes towards a sustainable energy system: An assessment of differences and pitfalls

    Rpjm Rob Raven

  • Socio-cognitive evolution in niche development: Comparative analysis of biogas development in Denmark and the Netherlands (1973–2004)

    Rpjm Rob Raven;FW Frank Geels

  • Local niche experimentation in energy transitions: A theoretical and empirical exploration of proximity advantages and disadvantages

    Lars Coenen;Rpjm Rob Raven;Gpj Geert Verbong

  • Multi-niche analysis of dynamics and policies in Dutch renewable energy innovation journeys (1970-2006): hype-cycles, closed networks and technology-focused learning

    Gpj Geert Verbong;FW Frank Geels;Rpjm Rob Raven

  • Multi-Regime Interactions in the Dutch Energy Sector: The Case of Combined Heat and Power Technologies in the Netherlands 1970–2000

    Rob P. J. M. Raven;Geert P. J. Verbong

  • Spaces for sustainable innovation: solar photovoltaic electricity in the UK

    Adrian Smith;Florian Kern;Rob Raven;Bram Verhees

Frequent Co-Authors

Adrian Smith
Adrian Smith University of Oxford
Frans Berkhout
Frans Berkhout King's College London
Hens Runhaar
Hens Runhaar Utrecht University
Frank W. Geels
Frank W. Geels University of Manchester
Jochen Markard
Jochen Markard ETH Zurich
HA Henny Romijn
HA Henny Romijn Eindhoven University of Technology
Eva Heiskanen
Eva Heiskanen University of Helsinki
Johan Schot
Johan Schot Utrecht University
Lars Coenen
Lars Coenen University of Melbourne
Simon Marvin
Simon Marvin University of Sheffield

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