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Energy transition
About: Energy transition is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 4266 publications have been published within this topic receiving 56968 citations.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the technical and economic characteristics of an accelerated energy transition to 2050, using new datasets for renewable energy, and show that energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies are the core elements of that transition, and their synergies are likewise important.
2,012 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce transition management as a new governance approach for sustainable development, which is used here as a common notion referring to those persistent problems in (western industrialized) societies that can only be dealt with on the very long term through specific types of network and decision-making processes.
Abstract: This article introduces transition management as a new governance approach for sustainable development. Sustainable development is used here as a common notion referring to those persistent problems in (Western industrialized) societies that can only be dealt with on the very long term (decades or more) through specific types of network and decision-making processes. Based on interdisciplinary research into complex processes of long term, structural change in society, basic tenets for complexity-based governance are formulated. These tenets are translated into a framework that distinguishes between four different types of governance activities and their respective roles in societal transitions. This framework can be used for implementation of governance strategies and instruments. The approach and framework have been developed deductively and inductively in the Netherlands since 2000. This article presents the theoretical basis of transition management and will be illustrated by examples from transition management practice, especially the Dutch national energy transition program.
1,295 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors make a case for examining energy transition as a geographical process, involving the reconfiguration of current patterns and scales of economic and social activity, and provide a conceptual language with which to describe and assess the geographical implications of a transition towards low carbon energy.
945 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the contribution that transition management can make to such processes, emphasize the irreducibly political character of governance for sustainable development, and suggest that the long-term transformation of energy systems will prove to be a messy, conflictual, and highly disjointed process.
Abstract: This article is concerned with governance of long term socio-technical transitions required to orient development trajectories of advanced industrial counties along more sustainable lines. It discusses the contribution that ‘transition management’ can make to such processes, emphasizes the irreducibly political character of governance for sustainable development, and suggests that the long-term transformation of energy systems will prove to be a messy, conflictual, and highly disjointed process.
889 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, a socio-technical and multi-level theory on transitions is used to analyse the Dutch electricity system and find that an energy transition is already occurring, with roots in the 1960s and 1970s, but driven mainly by liberalisation and Europeanisation.
737 citations