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Pilot Society and the Energy Transition
Marianne Ryghaug and Tomas Moe Skjølsvold
2021
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This open access book examines the role of pilot and demonstration projects as crucial devices for conducting innovation in the context of the energy transition. Bridging literature from sustainability transitions and Science and Technology Studies (STS), it argues that such projects play a crucial role, not only in shaping future energy and mobility systems, but in transforming societies more broadly. Pilot projects constitute socio-technical configurations where imagined future realities are materialized. With this as a backdrop, the book explores pilot projects as political entities, focusing on questions of how they gain their legitimacy, which resources are mobilized in their production, and how they can serve as sites of public participation and the production of energy citizenship. The book argues that such projects too often have a narrow technology focus, and that this is a missed opportunity. The book concludes by critically discussing the potential roles of research and innovation policy in transforming how such projects are configured and conducted.
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Keywords
- Central / national / federal government policies
- Central government
- Central government policies
- Development & environmental geography
- energy citizenship
- Energy industries & utilities
- Energy policy
- Energy Policy, Economics and Management
- Energy technology & engineering
- Energy transitions
- Environmental geography
- Environmental policy
- Environmental Social Sciences
- Environmental Studies
- Human geography
- low carbon energy transitions
- open access
- Politics & government
- science and technology studies
- social scientific studies of energy transitions
- Society & Social Sciences
- Sociology
- Sociology & anthropology
- Sociology, general
- sustainability transitions
- Technology, engineering, agriculture
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