Conceptualizing Germany’s Energy Transition
ISBN:
9781349700752
Auflage:
1st ed. 2016
Verlag:
Palgrave Macmillan UK, Palgrave Pivot
Land des Verlags:
Vereinigtes Königreich
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.03.2016
Herausgeber:
Format:
Softcover
Seitenanzahl:
147
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This is the first book to
explore ways of conceptualizing Germany’s ongoing energy transition. Although
widely acclaimed in policy and research circles worldwide, the Energiewende is poorly understood in
terms of social science scholarship. There is an urgent need to delve beyond
descriptive accounts of policy implementation and contestation in order to
unpack the deeper issues at play in what has been termed a 'grand societal
transformation.' The authors approach this in three ways: First, they select and
characterize conceptual approaches suited to interpreting the reordering of
institutional arrangements, socio-material configurations, power relations and
spatial structures of energy systems in Germany and beyond. Second, they assess the value of
these concepts in describing and explaining energy transitions, pinpointing their
relative strengths and weaknesses and exploring areas of complementarity and
incompatibility. Third, they illustrate how these concepts can be applied – individually and in
combination – to enrich empirical research of Germany’s energy transition.
Schlagwörter
Biografische Anmerkung
Ludger Gailing is deputy head of the research department of Institutional Change and Regional Public Goods at the Leibniz Institute for Research
on Society and Space (IRS), Germany. In his
work he draws on concepts relating to governance and institutional theories, constructivist
perspectives on space and place, governmentality and socio-materiality. Current
research foci include energy transitions and landscape policies.
Timothy Moss is head of the research department of Institutional Change and Regional Public Goods at the Leibniz Institute for Research
on Society and Space (IRS), Germany. His research
interests span the governance of urban infrastructures past and present, the
spatial organization of water and energy and the institutional dynamics of
resource use in cities and regions.
