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Enabling Sustainable Energy Transitions

Practices of legitimation and accountable governance

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Editors:
  1. Siddharth Sareen

    1. Department of Geography Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

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  • Presents a new framework for sustainable energy transitions
  • Bridges the worlds of academia and practice
  • Argues that an analytical approach to accountable governance is needed to further sustainable energy transitions

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  3. Cases

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 33-33
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    2. Five Easy Pieces: Legitimation at Work in Cases Related to Energy Transitions

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      Pages 35-39Open Access
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    3. Historicising Accountability: Berlin’s Energy Transitions

      • Timothy Moss
      Pages 41-52Open Access
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    4. A Few Reflections on Accountability

      • Christian Lund
      Pages 53-62Open Access
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    5. Do Climate Targets Matter? The Accountability of Target-setting in Urban Climate and Energy Policy

      • Håvard Haarstad
      Pages 63-72Open Access
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    6. Governance and Legitimation in the Transition to Nordic Electric Mobility

      • Benjamin Sovacool
      Pages 73-88Open Access
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    7. Accountability and the Regulation of Legitimacy: Biodiversity Conservation and Energy Extraction in the American West

      • Steven Wolf
      Pages 89-102Open Access
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  4. Conclusion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103
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    2. Practices of Legitimation and Accountability Crises in a Range of Energy Transitions

      • Siddharth Sareen
      Pages 105-116Open Access
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    3. Conclusion: Legitimation and Accountability in Energy Transitions Research

      • Siddharth Sareen, Timothy Moss, Christian Lund, Håvard Haarstad, Benjamin Sovacool, Steven Wolf
      Pages 117-135Open Access
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  5. Correction to: Enabling Sustainable Energy Transitions

    • Siddharth Sareen
    Pages C1-C2Open Access
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  6. Back Matter

    Pages 137-168
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About this book

This open access book reframes sustainable energy transitions as being a matter of resolving accountability crises. It demonstrates how the empirical study of several practices of legitimation can analytically deconstruct energy transitions, and presents a typology of these practices to help determine whether energy transitions contribute to sustainability.


The real-world challenge of climate change requires sustainable energy transitions. This presents a crisis of accountability legitimated through situated practices in a wide range of cases including: solar energy transitions in Portugal, urban energy transitions in Germany, forestland conflicts in Indonesia, urban carbon emission targets in Norway, transport electrification in the Nordic region, and biodiversity conservation and energy extraction in the USA. By synthesising these cases, chapters identify various dimensions wherein practices of legitimation construct specific accountability relations. This book deftly illustrates the value of an analytical approach focused on accountable governance to enable sustainable energy transitions. It will be of great use to both academics and practitioners working in the field of energy transitions.



Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Geography Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

    Siddharth Sareen

About the editor

Siddharth Sareen is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation at the University of Bergen, Norway.

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