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Complex Systems and Social Practices in Energy Transitions

Framing Energy Sustainability in the Time of Renewables

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  • © 2017

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  • Furthers our understanding of sustainable energy transition
  • Covers complex systems and social practice theories
  • Maximizes reader insights into sustainable energy policies
  • Provides recommendations for policy design and implementation
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Green Energy and Technology (GREEN)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. The Social Construction of Complex Systems

  2. Complex Systems and Sustainable Energy Transitions

  3. Complex Systems, Social Practices and Issues Generated by Reification

  4. Summary and Conclusions

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This book offers an interdisciplinary discussion of the fundamental issues concerning policies for sustainable transition to renewable energies from the perspectives of sociologists, physicists, engineers, economists, anthropologists, biologists, ecologists and policy analysts. Adopting a combined approach, these are analysed taking both complex systems and social practice theories into consideration to provide deeper insights into the evolution of energy systems.

The book then draws a series of important conclusions and makes recommendations for the research community and policy makers involved in the design and implementation of policies for sustainable energy transitions.

Editors and Affiliations

  • European Commission, Directorate-General Joint Research Centre, Unit C.02 Energy Efficiency and Renewables, Ispra, Italy

    Nicola Labanca

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