Keywords:
Renewable energy sources.
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
This book presents the ongoing transformation of energy supply as a multi-dimensional process, in which the analytical dimensions interact with each other in shaping the energy future. This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of energy transitions, energy science and environmental sociology more generally.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (305 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781351736732
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Energy Transitions Series
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=5517556
DDC:
333.79
Language:
English
Note:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Framing energy as a sociotechnical problem of control, change, and action -- Part I Sociotechnical problem of control -- 3 Power systems in transition: dealing with complexity -- 4 Aligning institutions and technologies in energy systems -- 5 Exposure and vulnerability of the energy system to internal and external effects -- Part II Sociotechnical problem of change -- 6 Real-world experiments as generators of sociotechnical change -- 7 Learning and disruptive innovation in energy transitions: who causes which constraints in the German electricity transition? -- 8 Energy system transformation and inertia in the UK: a discourse-institutional perspective -- Part III Sociotechnical problem of action -- 9 The energy system and trust: public, organizational, and transsystemic perspectives -- 10 Shaping our energy future: the irreducible entanglement of the ethical, social, and technical realms -- 11 Technology and motives: the challenge of energy consumption behavior -- Addendum Observing sociotechnical problems -- 12 Observing amplified sociotechnical complexity: challenges for technology assessment regarding energy transitions -- 13 Energy as a sociotechnical problem: a concluding discussion -- Index.
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