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Digitisation and Low-Carbon Energy Transitions

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Editors:
  1. Siddharth Sareen

    1. University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway

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  2. Katja Müller

    1. Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany

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  • Analyses intertwined twin transitions of digitisation and low-carbon energy systems
  • Investigates how twin transitions are situated, envisioned and materialised
  • Explores conceptualisations of transitions with rich depth and ethnographic insight
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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Digitisation and Low-Carbon Energy Transitions

    • Katja Müller, Siddharth Sareen
    Pages 1-22Open Access
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  3. Just Low-Carbon Mobility Transitions: A Research-Based Art Exhibition

    • Siddharth Sareen
    Pages 23-27Open Access
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  4. Correction to: Overcoming Abstraction: Affectual States in the Efforts to Decarbonize Energy Among Young Climate Activists in Stavanger, Norway

    • Andy Lautrup
    Pages C1-C2Open Access
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  7. Back Matter

    Pages 175-176
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About this book

The world is digitising as the need for low-carbon transitions gains urgency. Decarbonising energy requires the digital process control of energy production, transmission and end use. Diversified electrification across sectors requires real-time digital coordination of distributed energy production, At the same time, digitisation is accompanied by significant increases in energy demand, partly compensated through energy efficiency gains.

The emergent linkages between digitisation and decarbonisation – that constitute and enable the twin transition – are the subject of this book. The collection features authors from across the social sciences who situate digitisation and low-carbon energy transitions in the socio-technical and political economic contexts in which they unfold, to offer insights on the dynamics and contingencies of digitisation in and beyond the energy sector.

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Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway

    Siddharth Sareen

  • Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany

    Katja Müller

About the editors

Siddharth Sareen is an associate professor in energy and environment at the University of Stavanger and associate professor II at the Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation in Bergen. His research addresses the governance of energy transitions, from bustling cities to extractive zones, examining how changing energy infrastructure impacts social equity. Dozens of journals feature his work on solar energy politics, electricity supply, digitisation, urban mobility, land use, forestry and mining. He has worked in seven countries and given invited talks at forums like the United Nations and European Commission. Sareen is a member of the Young Academy of Norway.

Katja Müller  is a social anthropologist with research interests in environmental and energy humanities, extractivism and transition studies on the one hand, and digital anthropology, material culture, visual and museum on the other. She received her habilitation from MLU Halle for research on postcolonial digital collections, and has been working with the UTS Sydney on protest against coal mining and decarbonisation of electricity. Her regional expertise lays in India and (East) Germany.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Digitisation and Low-Carbon Energy Transitions

  • Editors: Siddharth Sareen, Katja Müller

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16708-9

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-16707-2Published: 14 December 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-16708-9Published: 13 December 2022

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 176

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 14 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Environmental Policy, Sociology, general, Human Geography, Energy Policy, Economics and Management

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