Planning for the Energy Transition and How to Overcome the Misfits of the Current Paradigm

Rob Roggema
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Rob Roggema: Research Centre for the Built Environment NoorderRuimte, School of Architecture and Built Environment, Hanze University of Applied Sciences Groningen, 9704 AA Groningen, The Netherlands

World, 2020, vol. 1, issue 3, 1-19

Abstract: The current paradigm for planning an energy transition is often embedded in practices within the existing political and societal regime. Within this paradigm, a genuine transformation to a fully fossil-free future is often not achieved. Thus, the problem is that in order to arrive at such a newly conceived future, the concepts and solutions created need to be fundamentally different from practices in recent past and present. At the same time, the community is not prepared for big changes, and the unknown future is experienced as uncertain and undesirable. These two mechanisms perpetuate current practices and prevent a new future from emerging. In this article, we will demonstrate how these two movements can be connected to disrupt incremental and path-dependent development, allowing people to become visionary and co-design a transformative future with innovative concepts. The Dutch Groningen region is used as an illustrative example for realising fundamental shifts supported by a bottom-up engagement process.

Keywords: transformative change; multi-level perspective; collaborative learning; co-design; energy transition; fossil-free future (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G15 G17 G18 L21 L22 L25 L26 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 R51 R52 R58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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