Citizen activities in energy transition : user innovation, new communities, and the shaping of a sustainable future / Sampsa Hyysalo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hyysalo, Sampsa, author.

Series:

Routledge studies in innovation, organization and technology.

Routledge studies in innovation, organization and technology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Energy conservation.

Energy conservation--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (176 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Citizen Activities in Energy Transition

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2021.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book addresses the rapidly changing citizen roles in innovation, technology adoption, intermediation, market creation and legitimacy building for low-carbon solutions. It links research in innovation studies, sustainability transitions and science & technology studies and builds a new approach for the study of user contributions to innovation and sociotechnical change. Citizen Activities in Energy Transition gives detailed and empirically grounded overall appraisal of citizens' active technological engagement in the current energy transition, in an era when Internet connectivity has given rise to important new forms of citizen communities and interactions. It elaborates a new way to study users in sociotechnical change through long-term ethnographic and historical research and reports its deployment in a major, decade-long line of investigation on user activities in small-scale renewables, addressing user contributions from the early years to the late proliferation stages of small-scale renewable energy technologies (S-RETs). It offers much-needed empirical and theoretical understanding of the dynamics of the activities in which users are engaged in the course of sociotechnical change, including innovation, adoption, adjustment, intermediation, community building, digital communities, market creation, and legitimacy creation. This work is a must-read for those seeking to understand the role of users in innovation, energy systems change and the significance of new digital communities in present and future sociotechnical change. Academics, policy makers and managers are given a new resource to understand the "demand side" of sociotechnical change beyond the patterns of investment, adoption and social acceptance that have traditionally occupied their attention"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : citizens in energy innovation and sociotechnical change

The biographies of artifacts and practices methodology for the study of sociotechnical change

Initial focus : user innovation in sustainable energy technologies

Broadening the inquiry : new internet-based energy communities

Zooming out : user activities and series of configurational movements in energy transition

Conclusions and implications for management and policy.

Notes:

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode/

Description based on: online resource; title from information screen page (Routledge, viewed December 24, 2022).

ISBN:

9780367680251

0367680254

9781003133919

1003133916

9781000393941

1000393941

OCLC:

1378933278

Access Restriction:

open access Unrestricted online access