Dr. Joachim Markard

Work at ZHAW

Position at the ZHAW

Senior Researcher

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Education and Continuing education

Expertise and research interests

Sustainability Transitions, Innovation Systems, Technology, Policy, Organizations and Industries

Membership of networks

• Sustainability Transitions Research Network
• European Group for Organizational Studies
• European Consortium for Political Research
• Twitter @JochenMarkard

Projects

• Massive Decarbonisation of the Swiss Building Stock (RENOWAVE) / Team member / Project ongoing
• SWEET PATHFNDR – Pathways to an efficient future energy system through flexibility and sector coupling / Project leader / Project ongoing
• Pathways – Conflicting Transition Pathways for Deep Decarbonization / Project leader / Project completed

Publications

• Ohlendorf, Nils; Löhr, Meike; Markard, Jochen,

  2023.

  Actors in multi-sector transitions : discourse analysis on hydrogen in Germany.

  Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions.

  47(100692).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2023.100692

• Andersen, Allan Dahl; Markard, Jochen; Bauknecht, Dierk; Korpås, Magnus,

  2023.

  Architectural change in accelerating transitions : actor preferences, system architectures, and flexibility technologies in the German energy transition.

  Energy Research & Social Science.

  97(102945).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2023.102945

• Markard, Jochen; Wells, Peter; Yap, Xiao-Shan; van Lente, Harro,

  2023.

  Unsustainabilities : a study on SUVs and space tourism and a research agenda for transition studies.

  Energy Research & Social Science.

  106(103302).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2023.103302

• Markard, Jochen; Rinscheid, Adrian; Widdel, Linda,

  2021.

  Analyzing transitions through the lens of discourse networks : coal phase-out in Germany.

  Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions.

  40, pp. 315-331.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2021.08.001

• Rinscheid, Adrian; Rosenbloom, Daniel; Markard, Jochen; Turnheim, Bruno,

  2021.

  From terminating to transforming : the role of phase-out in sustainability transitions.

  Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions.

  41, pp. 27-31.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2021.10.019

• Markard, Jochen; van Lente, Harro; Wells, Peter; Yap, Xiao-Shan,

  2021.

  Neglected developments undermining sustainability transitions.

  Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions.

  41, pp. 39-41.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2021.10.012

• Markard, Jochen; Geels, Frank W; Raven, Rob,

  2020.

  Challenges in the acceleration of sustainability transitions.

  Environmental Research Letters.

  15(8), pp. 081001.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab9468

• Sinsel, Simon R.; Markard, Joachim; Hoffmann, Volker H.,

  2020.

  How deployment policies affect innovation in complementary technologies—evidence from the German energy transition.

  Technological Forecasting and Social Change.

  161.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000441355

• Rosenbloom, Daniel; Markard, Joachim; Geels, Frank W.; Fuenfschilling, Lea,

  2020.

  Reply to van den Bergh and Botzen : a clash of paradigms over the role of carbon pricing.

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

  117(38), pp. 23221-23222.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2014350117

• Markard, Jochen; Isoaho, Karoliina; Widdel, Linda,

  2023.

  Discourses around decline : comparing the debates on coal phase-out in the UK, Germany and Finland

  .

  In:

  Koretsky, Zahar; Stegmaier, Peter; Turnheim, Bruno; van Lente, Harro, eds.,

  Technologies in Decline: Socio-Technical Approaches to Discontinuation and Destabilisation.

  New York:

  Routledge.

  pp. 119-144.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003213642-5

• Markard, Jochen; Rosenbloom, Daniel,

  2023.

  Phases of the net-zero energy transition and strategies to achieve it

  .

  In:

  Araújo, Kathleen, ed.,

  Routledge Handbook of Energy Transitions.

  New York:

  Routledge.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003183020-8

• Araújo, Kathleen M.; Foxon, Timothy J.; Markard, Jochen; Raven, Rob; Schaeffer, Roberto,

  2023.

  Reconceptualizing the next frontier in energy transitions

  .

  In:

  Araújo, Kathleen, ed.,

  Routledge Handbook of Energy Transitions.

  New York:

  Routledge.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003183020-34

• Boulouchos, Konstantinos; Neu, Urs; Baranzini, Andrea; Kröcher, Oliver; Markard, Jochen; et al.,

  2022.

  Schweizer Energiesystem 2050 : Wege zu netto null CO2 und Versorgungssicherheit.

  Swiss Academies Reports

  ; 17(3).

  Bern:

  Akademien der Wissenschaften Schweiz.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6967076

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

Selected publications

Rosenbloom, D., Markard, J., Geels, F.W., Fuenfschilling, L. (2020): Why carbon pricing is not sufficient to mitigate climate change — and how “sustainability transition policy” can help Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117, 8664-​8668. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2004093117

Markard, J.; Rosenbloom, D. (2020): “Political conflict and climate policy: The European Emissions Trading System as a Trojan Horse for the low-​carbon transition?” Climate Policy, in press. doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2020.1763901

Rosenbloom, D.; Markard, J. (2020): “A COVID-​19 recovery strategy for climate” Science, Editorial, 364(6490), 477, science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6490/447

Markard, J.; Bento, N.; Kittner, N.; Nuñez-​Jimenez, A. (2020): “Destined for decline? Critically examining nuclear energy with a technological innovation systems perspective.” Energy Research and Social Science, 67, 101512. doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2020.101512

Isoaho, K.; Markard, J. (2020): The politics of technology decline: Coal phase-​out discourse and policy change in the UK. Review of Policy Research, 37(3), 342-​368. doi.org/10.1111/ropr.12370

Markard, J. (2020): “The life cycle of technological innovation systems.” Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 153, 119407. doi: 10.1016/j.techfore.2018.07.045

Andersen, A.D.; Markard, J. (2020): "Multi-​technology interaction in socio-​technical transitions: How recent dynamics in HVDC technology can inform transition theories." Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 151. doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2019.119802

Markard J. (2018): "The next phase of the energy transition and its implications for research and policy." Nature Energy, 3(8), 628-​633. www.nature.com/articles/s41560-018-0171-7

Markard, J.; Suter, M.; Ingold, K. (2016): "Socio-​technical transitions and policy change – Advocacy coalitions in Swiss energy policy." Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 18, 215-​237. doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2015.05.003

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