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Energy Transitions and Social Psychology A Sociotechnical Perspective

This book explains how social psychological concepts can be closely integrated with sociotechnical perspectives of energy transitions. It shows the value of actor-centred analysis that acknowledges the role of individual-level processes within their wider contexts of energy supply and use. In this way the book connects social psychological and sociological frames of analysis preserving the value of both to provide multi-level analytically extended accounts of energy transitions processes. Sociotechnical thinking is about the interactions of people and technology including the rules regulations and institutions involved. Such perspectives help to identify the many forms of path dependency that can make change difficult. Human behaviour plays a strong role in maintaining these path dependencies but it can also introduce change. This book advocates a deliberately interdisciplinary research agenda that recognises the value of social psychological perspectives when seeking to create new pathways for energy supply and use. At the same time it also demonstrates the value of sociotechnical perspectives for energy-related social psychology. Energy Transitions and Social Psychology will be of great interest to students and scholars of energy transitions environmental and energy psychology sustainable development and innovation studies as well as students and scholars of environment and energy more generally. | Energy Transitions and Social Psychology A Sociotechnical Perspective

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Routledge Handbook of Energy Transitions

The Routledge Handbook of Energy Transitions draws upon a unique and multidisciplinary network of experts from around the world to explore the expanding field of energy transitions. This Handbook recognizes that considerable changes are underway or are being developed for the modes in which energy is sourced delivered and utilized. Employing a sociotechnical approach that accounts for economics and engineering as well as more cross-cutting factors including innovation policy and planning and management the volume considers contemporary ideas and practices that characterize the field. The book explores pressing issues including choices about infrastructure the role of food systems and materials sustainability and energy democracy. Disruption is a core theme throughout with the authors examining topics such as digitalization extreme weather and COVID-19 along with regional similarities and differences. Overall the Routledge Handbook of Energy Transitions advances the field of energy transitions by connecting ideas taking stock of empirical insights and challenging how we think about the theory and practice of energy systems change. This innovative volume functions as an authoritative roadmap with both regional and global relevance. It will be an essential resource for students policymakers researchers and practitioners researching and working in the fields of energy transitions planning environmental management and policy sustainable business engineering science and technology studies political science geography design anthropology and environmental justice. “With the exception of Chapter 26 no part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic mechanical or other means now known or hereafter invented including photocopying and recording or in any information storage or retrieval system without permission in writing from the publishers. ” Chapter 26 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4. 0 license.

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Network Governance and Energy Transitions in European Cities

This book investigates and evaluates the opportunities and limitations of network governance in building local capacity for energy infrastructure governance. Presenting a comparative analysis of three city cases from across Europe- Birmingham Frankfurt and Budapest- this book demonstrates how local factors shape the prospect of network governance to support low-carbon energy transitions. It maps out existing governance networks highlighting the actors involved and their interactions with one another and also discusses the role and embeddedness of networks in the urban governance of low-carbon energy. Drawing on case study evidence Nochta develops a comparative analysis which discusses the intricate connections between network characteristics context and impact. It highlights that organisational fragmentation; the complexity of the low-carbon energy problem and historical developments all influence network characteristics in terms of degree of integration and vertical (hierarchical) power relationships among network actors. Overall the book concludes that understanding such links between context and networks is crucial when designing and implementing new governance models aimed at facilitating and governing low-carbon urban development. Low-Carbon Energy Transitions in European Cities will be of great interest to scholars of energy policy urban governance and sustainability transitions. | Network Governance and Energy Transitions in European Cities

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Dilemmas of Energy Transitions in the Global South Balancing Urgency and Justice

This book explores how in the wake of the Anthropocene the growing call for urgent decarbonisation and accelerated energy transitions might have unintended consequences for energy poverty justice and democracy especially in the global South. Dilemmas of Energy Transitions in the Global South brings together theoretical and empirical contributions focused on rethinking energy transitions conceptually from and for the global South and highlights issues of justice and inclusivity. It argues that while urgency is critical for energy transitions in a climate-changed world we must be wary of conflating goals and processes and enquire what urgency means for due process. Drawing from a range of authors with expertise spanning environmental justice design theory ethics of technology conflict and gender it examines case studies from countries including Bolivia Sri Lanka India The Gambia and Lebanon in order to expand our understanding of what energy transitions are and how just energy transitions can be done in different parts of the world. Overall driven by a postcolonial and decolonial sensibility this book brings to the fore new concepts and ideas to help balance the demands of justice and urgency to flag relevant but often overlooked issues and to provide new pathways forward. This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of energy transitions environmental justice climate change and developing countries. The Open Access version of this book available at https://www. taylorfrancis. com/books/oa-edit/10. 4324/9781003052821 has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license. | Dilemmas of Energy Transitions in the Global South Balancing Urgency and Justice

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Visions of Energy Futures Imagining and Innovating Low-Carbon Transitions

This book examines the visions fantasies frames discourses imaginaries and expectations associated with six state-of-the-art energy systems—nuclear power hydrogen fuel cells shale gas clean coal smart meters and electric vehicles—playing a key role in current deliberations about low-carbon energy supply and use. Visions of Energy Futures: Imagining and Innovating Low-Carbon Transitions unveils what the future of energy systems could look like and how their meanings are produced often alongside moments of contestation. Theoretically it analyzes these technological case studies with emerging concepts from various disciplines: utopianism (history of technology) symbolic convergence (communication studies) technological frames (social construction of technology) discursive coalitions (discourse analysis and linguistics) sociotechnical imaginaries (science and technology studies) and the sociology of expectations (innovation studies future studies). It draws from these cases to create a synthetic set of dichotomies and frameworks for energy futures based on original data collected across two global epistemic communities— nuclear physicists and hydrogen engineers—and experts in Eastern Europe and the Nordic region stakeholders in South Africa and newspapers in the United Kingdom. This book is motivated by the premise that tackling climate change via low-carbon energy systems and practices is one of the most significant challenges of the twenty-first century and that success will require not only new energy technologies but also new ways of understanding language visions and discursive politics. The discursive creation of the energy systems of tomorrow are propagated in polity hoping to be realized as the material fact of the future but processed in conflicting ways with underlying tensions as to how contemporary societies ought to be ordered. This book will be essential reading for students and scholars of energy policy energy and environment and technology assessment. | Visions of Energy Futures Imagining and Innovating Low-Carbon Transitions

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A History of Energy Flows From Human Labor to Renewable Power

This book presents a global and historical perspective of energy flows during the last millennium. The search for sustainable energy is a key issue dominating today’s energy regime. This book details the historical evolution of energy following the overlapping and slow flowing transitions from one regime to another. In doing so it seeks to provide insight into future energy transitions and the means of utilizing sustainable energy sources to reduce humanity’s fossil fuel footprint. The book begins with an examination of the earliest and most basic forms of energy use namely that of humans metabolizing food in order to work with the first transition following the domestication and breeding of horses and other animals. The book also examines energy sources key to development during the industrialization and mechanization such as wood and coal as well as more recent sources such as crude oil and nuclear energy. The book then assesses energy flows that are at the forefront of sustainability by examining green sources such as solar wind power and hydropower. While it is easy to see energy flows in terms of “revolutions ” transitions have taken centuries to evolve and transitions are never fully global as for example wood remains the primary fuel source for cooking in much of the developing world. This book not only demonstrates the longevity of energy transitions but also discusses the possibility for reducing transition times when technological developments provide inexpensive and safe energy sources that can reduce the dependency on fossil fuels. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of energy transitions sustainable energy and environmental and energy history. | A History of Energy Flows From Human Labor to Renewable Power

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The Age of Sustainability Just Transitions in a Complex World

With transitions to more sustainable ways of living already underway this book examines how we understand the underlying dynamics of the transitions that are unfolding. Without this understanding we enter the future in a state of informed bewilderment. Every day we are bombarded by reports about ecosystem breakdown social conflict economic stagnation and a crisis of identity. There is mounting evidence that deeper transitions are underway that suggest we may be entering another period of great transformation equal in significance to the agricultural revolution some 13 000 years ago or the Industrial Revolution 250 years ago. This book helps readers make sense of our global crisis and the dynamics of transition that could result in a shift from the industrial epoch that we live in now to a more sustainable and equitable age. The global renewable energy transition that is already underway holds the key to the wider just transition. However the evolutionary potential of the present also manifests in the mushrooming of ecocultures new urban visions sustainability-oriented developmental states and new ways of learning and researching. Shedding light on the highly complex challenge of a sustainable and just transition this book is essential reading for anyone concerned with establishing a more sustainable and equitable world. Ultimately this is a book about hope but without easy answers. | The Age of Sustainability Just Transitions in a Complex World

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Electricity and Energy Transition in Nigeria

Electricity and Energy Transition in Nigeria provides readers with a detailed account of the dynamics of energy infrastructure change in Nigeria’s electricity sector. The book starts by introducing the basic theories underpinning the politics of energy infrastructure supply and goes on to explore the historical dimensions of the Nigerian energy transition by highlighting the influences and drivers of energy systems change. Edomah also examines the political dynamics at play highlighting the political actors and institutions that shape energy supply as well as the impact of consumer politics. The book concludes by considering how all these factors may influence the future of energy in Nigeria. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of energy transitions energy technology and infrastructure and African Studies more generally.

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Lectures On Phase Transitions And The Renormalization Group

Covering the elementary aspects of the physics of phases transitions and the renormalization group this popular book is widely used both for core graduate statistical mechanics courses as well as for more specialized courses. Emphasizing understanding and clarity rather than technical manipulation these lectures de-mystify the subject and show precisely how things work. Goldenfeld keeps in mind a reader who wants to understand why things are done what the results are and what in principle can go wrong. The book reaches both experimentalists and theorists students and even active researchers and assumes only a prior knowledge of statistical mechanics at the introductory graduate level. Advanced never-before-printed topics on the applications of renormalization group far from equilibrium and to partial differential equations add to the uniqueness of this book. | Lectures On Phase Transitions And The Renormalization Group

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Ethics in Danish Energy Policy

This book deepens our understanding of ethical drivers in energy policy and contributes to future decision-making on transitions towards a sustainable energy system. During the latest fifty years Western energy politics have been faced with a series of ethical challenges including rapid growth oil crises security of supply nuclear power and climate change. Combining philosophical historical and planning approaches into one narrative these dilemmas are explored using Denmark as the key case study. Drawing on contributions from several experts in the field the ethics of energy is investigated from multiple perspectives at the individual corporate local and national levels focusing on concrete decisions where different ethical considerations are weighted against each other. This comprehensive approach helps to gain a deeper understanding of the energy sector’s history and gives important input to its future layout. Drawing comparisons with European and global examples this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of energy politics and policy environmental ethics climate change and sustainability transitions. | Ethics in Danish Energy Policy

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Educational Choices Transitions and Aspirations in Europe Systemic Institutional and Subjective Challenges

Educational Choices Transitions and Aspirations in Europe analyses educational choices and transitions in eight different European countries/regions and provides an engaging means of considering issues of inequality through international comparisons. The book is underpinned by explorations of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches which share the common goal of highlighting and challenging educational inequalities in relation to political imaginings and discursive constructions of notions of aspirations and choice. Beginning with an overview of the theoretical landscape the book posits ways of understanding transitional experiences through both a social and a political lens. Comprising of chapters that explore these issues within the context of specific countries and at different stages of young people’s transitions the collection examines the features of different European education systems and how they frame transitions and choices before providing an overall analysis of systemic institutional and subjective constraints on these processes. The book uniquely opens and develops an intellectual conversation about different education systems with similar educational challenges and outcomes. Assimilating key issues and solutions this volume also makes general recommendations for policy and practice that would help to promote greater equity and social justice. The book covers a range of transition points and countries which should make it essential reading for academics researchers and postgraduate students with an interest in international perspectives on education. It will be particularly useful for those working in education sociology social policy geography and politics. | Educational Choices Transitions and Aspirations in Europe Systemic Institutional and Subjective Challenges

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Re-searching Transitions in Indian History

The idea of transitions in Indian history emerged early when the term ‘transition’ denoted shifts from one period to another. The notion of transition itself has moved beyond being primarily economic to include dimensions of society culture and ideology. This volume brings together scholarly works that re-examine and re-define the concept of transition by looking into a range of subjects including religion culture gender caste and community networks maritime and mercantile modes ideas of nationalism and historiographies across geographical and temporal settings. With contributions by leading scholars from South Asia this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of ancient history modern Indian history sociology and social anthropology and South Asian studies. | Re-searching Transitions in Indian History

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Accelerating Sustainable Energy Transition(s) in Developing Countries The challenges of climate change and sustainable development

Accelerating sustainable energy transitions away from carbon-based fuel sources needs to be high on the agendas of developing countries. It is key in achieving their climate mitigation promises and sustainable energy development objectives. To bring about rapid transitions simultaneous turns are imperative in hardware deployment policy improvements financing innovation and institutional strengthening. These systematic turns however incur tensions when considering the multiple options available and the disruptions of entrenched power across pockets of transition innovations. These heterogeneous contradictions and their trade-offs and uncertainties and risks have to be systematically recognized understood and weighed when making decisions. This book explores how the transitions occur in fourteen developing countries and broadly surveys their technological policy financing and institutional capacities in response to the three key aspects of energy transitions: achieving universal energy access harvesting energy efficiency and deploying renewable energy. The book shows how fragmented these approaches are how they occur across multiple levels of governance and how policy financing and institutional turns could occur in these complex settings. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of energy and climate policy development studies international relations politics strategic studies and geography. It is also useful to policymakers and development practitioners. | Accelerating Sustainable Energy Transition(s) in Developing Countries The challenges of climate change and sustainable development

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Blue Economy People and Regions in Transitions

This book presents state-of-the-art perspectives on the Blue Economy. It applies important geographical and sustainability transitions perspectives and underscores how Blue Economy dynamics are situated in regional contexts and shaped by the people who live there. The book highlights the Blue Economy concept as a potential driver of regionally sensitive ecologically embedded and community-focused sustainability. The scope for Blue Economy to form a core cog in our low-carbon future is obvious from the potential for renewable energy production and coastal resilience building to possibilities for sustainable food production and the delivery of economic opportunities for peripheral communities. However fundamental questions remain on how to meaningfully deliver these promises such as how to avoid embedding a model of damaging extractivism as per the terrestrial economy and how to deliver on the key social sustainability principles of human well-being equity and justice when planning and developing blue economies. As the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development opens this book provides a timely reminder of the richness diversity and potential of coastal and marine spaces. It advances geographical and transdisciplinary understandings of the Blue Economy and sets a baseline for continued scholarly engagement with the Blue Economy from a variety of perspectives. This timely contribution will be of interest to policy makers academics industry leaders decision makers and stakeholders working in or connected to the Blue Economy Sphere and working in the fields of Economic Geography Regional Development Public Policy and Planning Environmental Studies and Coastal Zone Management. | Blue Economy People and Regions in Transitions

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Introduction to Energy Analysis

This textbook provides an introduction to energy analysis for those students who want to specialise in this challenging field. In comparison to other textbooks this book provides a balanced treatment of complete energy systems covering the demand side the supply side and the energy markets that connect these. The emphasis is very much on presenting a range of tools and methodologies that will help students find their way in analysing real world problems in energy systems. This new edition has been updated throughout and contains additional content on energy transitions and improvements in the treatment of several energy systems analysis approaches. Featuring learning objectives further readings and practical exercises in each chapter Introduction to Energy Analysis will be essential reading for upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students with a background in the natural sciences and engineering. This book may also be useful for professionals dealing with energy issues as a first introduction into the field.

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Social and Political Transitions During the Left Turn in Latin America

Social and Political Transitions During the Left Turn in Latin America provides fourteen contributions to understand from a multidisciplinary perspective processes of socio-political reconfigurations in the region from the early 2000s to the mid-2010s. The Left Turn was the regional shift to left-of-center governments and social movements that sought to replace the neoliberal policies of the 1990s. This volume aims to answer the overarching research question: how do state and societal (national and transnational) actors trigger and shape processes of political and socio-economic transitions in Latin America from the rise to the decline of the Left Turn. The book presents case studies in which transitions are moments of change and uncertainty which one cannot predict their definitive outcomes. The various case studies presented in the book place actors and processes in specific historical and socio-political contexts which are influenced directly or indirectly by the historical trajectory of Latin America’s Left Turn. This book is essential reading for students and scholars of Social and Political History Latin American History and those interested in the social and political developments in Latin America more broadly.

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Loss Grief and Attachment in Life Transitions A Clinician’s Guide to Secure Base Counseling

Loss Grief and Attachment in Life Transitions gives readers an attachment-informed grief counseling framework and a new way of understanding non-death loss and its treatment. Loss and grief are viewed through a wide-angle lens with relevance to the whole of human life including the important area of career counseling and occupational consultation. The book is founded on the key themes of the Transition Cycle: welcome and contact attachment and bonding intimacy and sexuality seperation and loss grief and meaning reconstruction. Rich in case material related to loss and change the book provides the tools for adopting a highly personalized approach to working with clients facing a range of life transitions. This book is a highly relevant and practical volume for grief counselors and other mental health professionals looking to incorporate attachment theory into their clinical practice. | Loss Grief and Attachment in Life Transitions A Clinician’s Guide to Secure Base Counseling

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Strategic Management and Sustainability Transitions Theory and Practice

The subject of sustainability transitions has in the past decade or so become an established research field for academics policy makers and practitioners alike. Conceptual and theoretical developments in the filed have gradually advanced from the perspectives of socio-technical systems and business models. Scholars contend that it is the interactions of the networks of actors technologies and institutions that drive transition processes toward sustainability. In this volume we further advance this line of inquiry with a special reference to strategic management of sustainability transitions in both theory and practice. In theoretical development we have selected three chapters to encompass the themes of (1) the interactions between ecological systems and human systems; (2) a critique on the continuous expansion of large multinational companies and their strategic control of key resource inputs through the lenses of circular economy and natural resource-based view; and (3) a multi-stakeholder ecosystems framework for the management of sustainability transitions with structural alignment of focal value propositions. The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are critically addressed and empirically examined. It will become an essential reader and a reference book for researchers and postgraduate students interested in strategic management international business innovation studies consumer behavior and public administration. | Strategic Management and Sustainability Transitions Theory and Practice

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