Sustainable Energy Access for Sustainable Communities: Introduction by a Social Scientist

Andreas J. Obrecht ()
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Andreas J. Obrecht: APPEAR—Austrian Partnership Programme in Higher Education and Research for Development

Chapter Chapter 1 in Sustainable Energy Access for Communities, 2022, pp 1-8 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Three pillars are essential to building a sustainable future for current and next generations: sustainable energy access, inclusive knowledge and equal opportunities in education, peacebuilding, and democratisation. These pillars interact like communicating vessels; they can neither be conceived nor achieved in isolation from one another. Sustainable energy access relies on access to broad and decentralised knowledge and to innovation in technologies, which is the pursuit of higher education. Community-based implementation of the sustainable energy principles is only possible if the stakeholders own these principles and thus create the basis for participatory, transparent, democratic, and above all, peaceful conditions for action. Peaceful contexts are necessary for communities to achieve the socio-ecological transformation that is necessary to mitigate climate change and to build models of a sustainable coexistence that preserves our common good, which is the environment.

Keywords: Sustainable energy access; Inclusive knowledge; Decentralised knowledge (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-68410-5_1

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