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Conceptualizing Germany's energy transition : institutions, materiality, power, space / Ludger Gailing, Timothy Moss, editors.

9781137505934 (electronic book)
1137505931 (electronic book)
9781137505927

London : Palgrave Macmillan, ]2016]

English

1 online resource (xv, 147 pages)

9781137505927

HD9502.G32

333.790943

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.

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