Guest Editorial: Special Issue on “Sustainable urban energy systems – Governance and citizen involvement”

Aad Correljé, Thomas Hoppe and Rolf Künneke

Energy Policy, 2024, vol. 192, issue C

Abstract: Cities are responsible for over 75% of the total amount of global greenhouse gas emissions. They are also home to the majority of the Earth's population. Ambitious climate mitigation goals can only be realized by transforming fossil based urban energy systems into sustainable, low-carbon ones. This is a multidisciplinary challenge that goes way beyond the technological dimension. In the Special Issue to which this Guest Editorial contributes, a multi-disciplinary perspective is used, exploring governance, institutional, ethical and other aspects, pertaining to citizen involvement in sustainable urban energy systems. The main research questions are, “How can we address key challenges to the analysis and design of sustainable urban energy systems, as regards their governance and institutions, values, social acceptance, and citizen involvement?”, and “How can this contribute to shaping a multi-disciplinary academic research agenda?” Based on the main findings from the ten contributions to the Special Issue key challenges to sustainable urban energy system design, planning, and implementation are presented, including suggestions for future research.

Keywords: Energy system; Cities; Innovation; Renewable energy; Governance; Institutions; Citizens; Community energy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2024.114237

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