Overview
- Presents a new framework for sustainable energy transitions
- Bridges the worlds of academia and practice
- Argues that an analytical approach to accountable governance is needed to further sustainable energy transitions
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About this book
This open access book reframes sustainable energy transitions as being a matter of resolving accountability crises. It demonstrates how the empirical study of several practices of legitimation can analytically deconstruct energy transitions, and presents a typology of these practices to help determine whether energy transitions contribute to sustainability.
The real-world challenge of climate change requires sustainable energy transitions. This presents a crisis of accountability legitimated through situated practices in a wide range of cases including: solar energy transitions in Portugal, urban energy transitions in Germany, forestland conflicts in Indonesia, urban carbon emission targets in Norway, transport electrification in the Nordic region, and biodiversity conservation and energy extraction in the USA. By synthesising these cases, chapters identify various dimensions wherein practices of legitimation construct specific accountability relations. This book deftly illustrates the value of an analytical approach focused on accountable governance to enable sustainable energy transitions. It will be of great use to both academics and practitioners working in the field of energy transitions.
The real-world challenge of climate change requires sustainable energy transitions. This presents a crisis of accountability legitimated through situated practices in a wide range of cases including: solar energy transitions in Portugal, urban energy transitions in Germany, forestland conflicts in Indonesia, urban carbon emission targets in Norway, transport electrification in the Nordic region, and biodiversity conservation and energy extraction in the USA. By synthesising these cases, chapters identify various dimensions wherein practices of legitimation construct specific accountability relations. This book deftly illustrates the value of an analytical approach focused on accountable governance to enable sustainable energy transitions. It will be of great use to both academics and practitioners working in the field of energy transitions.
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Keywords
- energy transitions
- accountability
- sustainability
- relational change
- institutional changes
- legitimacy
- material change
- accountability analysis
- accountability crisis
- solar energy
- history of sustainable energy
- climate targets
- electric mobility
- urban climate and energy policy
- Berlin’s energy transitions
- Biodiversity conservation
- energy extraction
- open access
- Environmental Geography
Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Cases
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Siddharth Sareen is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation at the University of Bergen, Norway.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Enabling Sustainable Energy Transitions
Book Subtitle: Practices of legitimation and accountable governance
Editors: Siddharth Sareen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26891-6
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-26890-9Published: 28 October 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-26891-6Published: 16 October 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 168
Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations
Topics: Human Geography, Environment Studies, Environmental Geography, Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Development and Sustainability