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Enabling sustainable energy transitions : practices of legitimation and accountable governance

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.

Siddharth Sareen is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation at the University of Bergen, Norway.

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Call Number
333.79 ENA e
Publisher
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Pivot.,
Collation
xxi, 168p. : ill.
Language
English
ISBN/ISSN
9783030268916
Classification
333.79
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Subject(s)
Human geography
Energy policy
Renewable energy sources
Energy policy--Social aspects
Economic development--Environmental aspects
Environmental geography
Renewable energy sources--Government policy
Energy industries--Environmental aspects
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