IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/spr/masfgc/v30y2025i5d10.1007_s11027-025-10221-0.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Under which conditions can shocks stimulate transformative recovery: the Strategy Shock Implementation Reaction (SSIR) framework

Author

Listed:
  • Sebastian Seebauer

    (Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH)

  • Eva Posch

    (University of Innsbruck)

  • Thomas Thaler

    (BOKU University
    International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis)

  • Claudia Winkler

    (Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH)

  • Hermine Mitter

    (BOKU University)

Abstract

Future shocks from climate change impacts will likely overstretch current individual coping capacities. Integrated policy strategies could foster sustainable and resilient reactions of households and businesses by rebuilding for transformative recovery instead of bouncing back to the pre-shock status. We present the Strategy Shock Implementation Reaction (SSIR) framework as a conceptual framework for bridging the design of policy strategies to their implementation after a shock and the following reactions of the affected households and businesses. We illustrate the SSIR framework using examples of climate resilience pathways that integrate climate change adaptation and mitigation policy: planned relocation and building renovation. The framework details how a shock converts a strategy and how this conversion influences the strategy’s effect on individual reactions. It thus re-conceptualizes shocks from mere policy windows to policy filters. We discuss how the framework may be operationalized in research on how policy strategies evolve and function over time.

Suggested Citation

  • Sebastian Seebauer & Eva Posch & Thomas Thaler & Claudia Winkler & Hermine Mitter, 2025. "Under which conditions can shocks stimulate transformative recovery: the Strategy Shock Implementation Reaction (SSIR) framework," Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, Springer, vol. 30(5), pages 1-29, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:masfgc:v:30:y:2025:i:5:d:10.1007_s11027-025-10221-0
    DOI: 10.1007/s11027-025-10221-0
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s11027-025-10221-0
    File Function: Abstract
    Download Restriction: Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1007/s11027-025-10221-0?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:masfgc:v:30:y:2025:i:5:d:10.1007_s11027-025-10221-0. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.