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The great reconfiguration : a socio-technical analysis of low-carbon transition in UK electricity, heat, and mobility systems / Frank W. Geels, Bruno Turnheim.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Geels, Frank W., 1971- author.
- Turnheim, Bruno, 1984- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Energy policy--Great Britain.
- Energy policy.
- Carbon dioxide mitigation--Great Britain.
- Carbon dioxide mitigation.
- Technological innovations--Great Britain.
- Technological innovations.
- Environmental protection--Great Britain.
- Environmental protection.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 375 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
- Summary:
- This book is intended for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners interested in the dynamics and governance of low-carbon transitions. Drawing on the Multi-Level Perspective, it develops a whole system reconfiguration approach that explains how the incorporation of multiple innovations can cumulatively reconfigure existing systems. The book focuses on UK electricity, heat, and mobility systems, and it systematically analyses interactions between radical niche-innovations and existing (sub)systems across techno-economic, policy, and actor dimensions in the past three decades. Comparative analysis explains why the unfolding low-carbon transitions in these three systems vary in speed, scope, and depth. It evaluates to what degree these transitions qualify as Great Reconfigurations and assesses the future potential for, and barriers to, deeper low-carbon system transitions. Generalising across these systems, broader lessons are developed about the roles of incumbent firms, governance and politics, user engagement, wider public, and civil society organisations. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
- Notes:
- Open Access.
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Apr 2022).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9781009198233 (ebook)
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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