Sustainable transitions and complex socio-technical systems: renewable energy and the electricity grid in the USA, UK and Germany

Anne-Marie Coles and S. R. Peters

No 20230, Greenwich Papers in Political Economy from University of Greenwich, Greenwich Political Economy Research Centre

Abstract: Transitions management identifies broad national efforts that attempt to govern socio-technical change along more environmentally sustainable pathways. Although the complexity of such endeavours is generally acknowledged, it is not yet clear how governance practices work at an international level. This paper utilises the transitions management concept to compare three countries in their attempts to increase the adoption and use of renewable energy technologies. It notes that analysis at a micro-level needs to focus on the actions and requirements of particular user groups for a deeper elucidation of transition management processes. Furthermore, the complexity of socio-technical change processes implies that transitions management is a more useful concept when focused at the micro-level of change rather than at the macro-level of strategy formulation over the longer term.

Keywords: Renewable energy; transitions management; energy users; inter-country comparison (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O33 O57 Q42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-05-03
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ene, nep-env, nep-eur and nep-reg
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/20230/1/GreenwichP ... 20full%20article.pdf

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gpe:wpaper:20230

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Greenwich Papers in Political Economy from University of Greenwich, Greenwich Political Economy Research Centre Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Nadine Edwards ().