Challenges ahead : Understanding, assessing, anticipating and governing foreseeable societal tensions to support accelerated low-carbon transitions in Europe

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Turnheim, Bruno Wesseling, Joeri Truffer, Bernhard Rohracher, Harald Carvalho, Luís Binder, Claudia R.
Copyright Year	2018
Abstract	Addressing global climate change calls for rapid, large-scale deployment of renewable energy technologies (RETs). Such an accelerated diffusion constitutes a new phenomenon, which challenges existing analytical approaches. The implied fundamental reconfiguration of energy systems will inevitably involve adjoining shifts in the structure of energy markets, the socio-cultural significance of energy and related rules and institutions—producing new societal tensions that are largely understudied. This chapter draws on insights from socio-technical, social-ecological and techno-economic systems studies to better understand, assess and support the exploration of low-carbon futures. We sketch out an agenda that encompasses four major tasks for governing the energy transition: i) a richer understanding of the dynamics of socio-technical and social-ecological systems; ii) multidimensional assessments of prospective environmental, social and economic impacts of these transformations; iii) methods that enable actors to anticipate future impacts in their everyday innovation and decision practices; and iv) elaborate new governance arrangements to tackle the upcoming transformations.
Starting Page	145
Ending Page	161
Page Count	17
File Format	PDF HTM / HTML
DOI	10.1007/978-3-319-99097-2_10
Alternate Webpage(s)	http://liu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1242704/FULLTEXT02.pdf
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99097-2_10
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article