Lost (and found) in Transition: Expert stakeholder insights on low-carbon energy transitions in Spain

Şorman, Alevgül H.; Garcia-Muros, Xaquín; Pizarro-Irizar, Cristina; González-Eguino, Mikel

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2019.101414

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“…As a commitment, however, the scientific community at large needs to embrace the true meaning of knowledge co-production and move beyond the sole realm of validation of results or consultation without any transformational impact, towards the ethos of creating partnerships with society [132] . Such settings, going beyond symbolic effort to creating alliances of science and society, can genuinely help understand how society’s aspirations can be mapped [133] onto requirements and opportunities of a transition driven by lifestyle changes, building on evidence of the importance of dialogue to achieve distributional justice and gender equality [134] .…”

Section: Co-developing Knowledge: Discursive and Fun Engagementmentioning

confidence: 99%

The desirability of transitions in demand: Incorporating behavioural and societal transformations into energy modelling

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Lieu

Şorman

et al. 2020

Energy Research & Social Science

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Quantitative systems modelling in support of climate policy has tended to focus more on the supply side in assessing interactions among technology, economy, environment, policy and society. By contrast, the demand side is usually underrepresented, often emphasising technological options for energy efficiency improvements. In this perspective, we argue that scientific support to climate action is not only about exploring capacity of “what”, in terms of policy and outcome, but also about assessing feasibility and desirability, in terms of “when”, “where” and especially for “whom”. Without the necessary behavioural and societal transformations, the world faces an inadequate response to the climate crisis challenge. This could result from poor uptake of low-carbon technologies, continued high-carbon intensive lifestyles, or economy-wide rebound effects. For this reason, we propose a framing for a holistic and transdisciplinary perspective on the role of human choices and behaviours in influencing the low-carbon transition, starting from the desires of individuals and communities, and analysing how these interact with the energy and economic landscape, leading to systemic change at the macro-level. In making a case for a political ecology agenda, we expand our scope, from comprehending the role of societal acceptance and uptake of end-use technologies, to co-developing knowledge with citizens from non-mainstream and marginalised communities, and to defining the modelling requirements to assess the decarbonisation potential of shifting lifestyle patterns in climate change and action.

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Section: Co-developing Knowledge: Discursive and Fun Engagementmentioning

confidence: 99%

The desirability of transitions in demand: Incorporating behavioural and societal transformations into energy modelling

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Lieu

Şorman

et al. 2020

Energy Research & Social Science

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“…Citizen engagement can help understand how the transition can be "just" (Papada et al 2019), building on recent analyses of the importance of social dialogue to achieve procedural and distributional justice (Gambhir, Green, and Pearson 2018) and gender equality (Sorman et al 2020) in such transitions. The EU Platform on Coal Regions in Transition to support heavily coal-dependent nations assists communication among national, regional and local stakeholders regarding the modernization of these regions' economies; and enables people working in the lignite sector to obtain new skills and become capable of working in a "greener" reality (European Commission 2018).…”

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Sustainable and socially just transition to a post-lignite era in Greece: a multi-level perspective

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Neofytou

Karamaneas

et al. 2020

Energy Sources, Part B: Economics, Planning, and Policy

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“…However, in many cases, the gender dimension is largely absent in the technocratic description of sustainable transition [9]. Technocratic approaches, therefore, are too narrow for policy-making on complex sustainability issues involving high and divergent societal stakes and scientific uncertainties [8].…”

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“…Actors are galvanising ambitions further with successful grassroots initiatives and social movements. The rise of renewable energy projects has brought forth a social agenda in the transition, bringing principal elements of justice directly into interplay with social change and gender equality [8].…”

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The State of the Art of Gendered Energy Innovations: A Structured Literature Review

Merwe

Kock

Musango

2020

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Lost (and found) in Transition: Expert stakeholder insights on low-carbon energy transitions in Spain

Cited by 43 publications

References 47 publications

The desirability of transitions in demand: Incorporating behavioural and societal transformations into energy modelling

The desirability of transitions in demand: Incorporating behavioural and societal transformations into energy modelling

Sustainable and socially just transition to a post-lignite era in Greece: a multi-level perspective

The State of the Art of Gendered Energy Innovations: A Structured Literature Review

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