Energy Transitions

A Socio-technical Inquiry
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-77024-6
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 348 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 588 g

Reihe: Energy, Climate and the Environment

Offers a social science perspective on contemporary energy transition processes
Proposes a critical analysis of the key dimensions of energy transition processes 'in-the-making'
Addresses the innovative and sometimes disruptive potential of these processes

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Labussière, Olivier

Nadaï, Alain

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Energie- & Versorgungswirtschaft Energiewirtschaft: Alternative & Erneuerbare Energien
• Technische Wissenschaften Energietechnik | Elektrotechnik Alternative und erneuerbare Energien
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Umweltsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: From ‘The Energy Transition’ to ‘Energy transitions in-the-making’.- Chapter 1: Re-materializing energy transition processes.- Chapter 2: Economizing the Energy Transition.- Chapter 3: The Politics of Policy Instruments.- Chapter 4: The Technological Demonstration at the core of the Energy Transition.- Chapter 5: (Dis)placing or the spatialities the energy transition processes.- Chapter 6: (De)populating or the temporalities of energy transition processes.- Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Olivier Labussière is a researcher at the French National Scientific Research Centre (CNRS). He is member of the Pacte Research Centre (Grenoble, France) where he leads the interdisciplinary “Environments” research group. He studies the relationships between energy, society and space, and their emerging issues and politics in different environments (underground, onshore, offshore, aerial).
Nadaï Alain is senior interdisciplinary social scientist at CIRED, the International Research Centre on Environment and Development, a part of French CNRS. His research activity has been centred on environmental controversies and policies, landscape policies, energy transition policies and the societal and spatial changes induced by energy transition processes. He has contributed as a leading author to the IPCC Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation (SRREN, 2011).