Book Details

Enabling Sustainable Energy Transitions Practices of legitimation and accountable governance

Publication year: 2020

ISBN: 978-3-030-26891-6

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This 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.


Subject: Social Sciences / Human Geography / Environment Studies / Environmental Geography / Energy Policy, Economics and Management / Development and Sustainability / energy transitions / accountability / sustainability / relational change / institutional changes / legitimacy / material change / accountability analysis / accountability crisis / solar energy / history of sustainable energy / climate targets / electric mobility / urban climate and energy policy / Berlin’s energy transitions / Biodiversity conservation / energy extraction