Designing an explanatory practice framework: local food systems as a case Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Ghent University
The article documents the designing of an explanatory framework for the role of consumption practices in transitions to (enhanced) sustainability in the food system. In the endeavor to develop an applied practice approach we combine the concept of ‘practice’ with that of ‘niche/regime’, respectively adopted from contemporary environmental sociology and theories on systemic innovations and transitions theory. We argue that this re-combination ...