Transition Management: its origin, evolution and critique Rotmans, Loorbach and Kemp 1 Transition management: Its origin, evolution and critique Jan Rotmans, Derk Loorbach and René Kemp Dutch Research Institute for Transitions, Drift Erasmus University Rotterdam P.O. Box 1738 3000 DR Rotterdam The Netherlands Email: rotmans@fsw.eur.nl, loorbach@fsw.eur.nl, r.kemp@merit.unimaas.nl, Tel: + 31 (0)43 3884405 Fax: +31 (0)43 3884499 Workshop on “Politics and governance in sustainable socio-technical transitions’, 19-21 September 2007, Schloss Blankensee, Berlin, Germany This version 17 September, 2007