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Conceptualizing Germany´s Energy Transition: Institutions, Materiality, Power, Space
Ludger Gailing (Ed.)
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Description for Conceptualizing Germany´s Energy Transition: Institutions, Materiality, Power, Space
Hardback. Editor(s): Gailing, Ludger; Moss, Timothy. Num Pages: 162 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, 5 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JP; THX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 220 x 13. Weight in Grams: 302.
This is the first book to explore ways of conceptualizing Germany's ongoing energy transition. Although widely acclaimed in policy and research circles worldwide, the Energiewende is poorly understood in terms of social science scholarship. There is an urgent need to delve beyond descriptive accounts of policy implementation and contestation in order to unpack the deeper issues at play in what has been termed a 'grand societal transformation.' The authors approach this in three ways: First, they select and characterize conceptual approaches suited to interpreting the reordering of institutional arrangements, socio-material configurations, power relations and spatial structures of energy systems in ... Read more
This is the first book to explore ways of conceptualizing Germany's ongoing energy transition. Although widely acclaimed in policy and research circles worldwide, the Energiewende is poorly understood in terms of social science scholarship. There is an urgent need to delve beyond descriptive accounts of policy implementation and contestation in order to unpack the deeper issues at play in what has been termed a 'grand societal transformation.' The authors approach this in three ways: First, they select and characterize conceptual approaches suited to interpreting the reordering of institutional arrangements, socio-material configurations, power relations and spatial structures of energy systems in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
147
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137505927
SKU
V9781137505927
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99-15
About Ludger Gailing (Ed.)
Ludger Gailing is deputy head of the research department of Institutional Change and Regional Public Goods at the Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space (IRS), Germany. In his work he draws on concepts relating to governance and institutional theories, constructivist perspectives on space and place, governmentality and socio-materiality. Current research foci include energy transitions and landscape policies. ... Read more
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