Disrupting transitions: qualitatively modelling the impact of Covid-19 on UK food and mobility provision

Boons, Frank, Doherty, Bob, Köhler, Jonathan, Papachristos, George and Wells, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4376-7178 2021. Disrupting transitions: qualitatively modelling the impact of Covid-19 on UK food and mobility provision. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 40 , pp. 1-19. 10.1016/j.eist.2021.04.003

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Abstract

The 2020 Covid-19 pandemic provides an empirical testing ground for assessing the impact of critical events on societal transitions. Such events are typically seen as exogenous to the transition process, an assumption which is investigated in this paper. Using a qualitative system dynamics modelling approach we conceptualize transition pathways as sets of interacting sequences of events. This enables the analysis of event sequences that constitute the evolving pandemic as impacting on those pathways. We apply this approach to the provision of (auto)mobility and food in the UK. This shows the way in which the pandemic has had a differential effect on ongoing transitions in both systems, sometimes slowing them down, and sometimes accelerating them. In addition, it reveals how it has established new transition pathways. The empirical work further shows how qualitative modelling with system dynamics facilitates an explicit and systematic comparative analysis of transition case studies.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Business (Including Economics)
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	2210-4224
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	16 August 2021
Date of Acceptance:	16 April 2021
Last Modified:	05 May 2023 14:17
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/143171

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