Sustainability transitions: system integration and societal readiness

Now that the energy and mobility transitions are gaining momentum, important questions of system level integration occur. Sector coupling and the increasing electrification of industry and transport will lead to large changes in industrial structure. These changes in industrial structure will also affect citizens and communities through their spatial impacts and labor market consequences. Ensuring that the transition will be just requires insights from the social sciences and humanities on ethics, governance and market structures that will provides the rules of the game.