How the process of transitions shapes the politics of decarbonization: Tracing policy feedback effects across phases of the energy transition

“Our oil would burn bright til morning:” Geopolitics, resource securitization, and Anglo-American competition for whale oil, 1783–1818

“…By narrating a causal sequence of events, linking the steps in the causal chain, the process trace allows a researcher "to unearth micro-causal relationships, to consider major actors' decisions in context, and to trace events from a static pre-causal point to their eventual outcome in cases with a small or unique n (where neither statistical inference nor the comparative method would do)" [38]: 477. The process-tracing method can help to develop theories while explaining single cases [39] and has increasingly been used to analyse historical energy transitions [40]; [41]; [42].…”

Socio-Technical Challenges Towards Data-Driven and Integrated Urban Water Management: A Socio-Technical Network Approach

“…Bringing these different social actors and their perspectives together, i.e., providing integration at both technical and social levels, could potentially lead to higher economic efficiency through improved technical infrastructure performance (Hällström and Bosch-Sijtsema 2020) and reduced environmental impacts (Biddle and Koontz 2014;Scott 2015). This idea of a 'socio-technical fit' (Manny et al, 2022;Smith 2020) implies that technical and social systems should align in order to achieve successful, efficient, and sustainable outcomes (Finger et al, 2005), in this case, for UWS. Consequently, policy and decision-making supporting the development towards sustainable cities and infrastructures could benefit from evidence on how well technical and social systems align and where important socio-technical dependencies need to be considered when identifying potential ways for improving socio-technical alignment.…”

Different Scenarios for the National Transmission Grid, Considering the Extensive Use of On-Site Renewable Energy in the Mexican Housing Sector

“…While some countries are already about to reach a 100% renewable energy scenario [2][3][4][5][6][7], and others are in the transition [8][9][10][11][12][13], some have not reached even 10% [14][15][16][17]. Among many other reasons, such as economical [18][19][20][21], social [22,23], political [24][25][26], technical [27], or multicriteria issues [28], renewable and low-carbon energies are not easy to implement in national and large-scale scenarios.…”