The literature offers multiple views on the relationships between transition and transformation . The 1.5 SR suggests that transformation is needed to generate the four system transitions. In many literatures, transformation is considered a more expansive process than transition, with the former less exclusively focused on socio-technical systems and more engaged with questions of power, politics, capabilities, culture, identity and sense-making . This report generally takes this more expansive view of transformation to engage with issues of equity, climate justice and large-scale institutional and societal change .
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Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
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