Enabling Sustainable Energy Transitions : : Practices of Legitimation and Accountable Governance.

• Author: Sareen, Siddharth.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2019.; ©2020.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (182 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Prologue -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Part I: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Reframing Energy Transitions as Resolving Accountability Crises -- 1.1 Sustainable Energy Transition as a Response to an Accountability Crisis -- 1.2 Deconstructing Accountability into Practices of Legitimation -- References -- Chapter 2: A Typology of Practices of Legitimation to Categorise Accountability Relations -- 2.1 Discursive Legitimation -- 2.2 Bureaucratic Legitimation -- 2.3 Technocratic Legitimation -- 2.4 Financial Legitimation -- 2.5 Linking Hollow and Substantive Accountability with Sustainability Outcomes -- References -- Part II: Cases -- Chapter 3: Five Easy Pieces: Legitimation at Work in Cases Related to Energy Transitions -- Chapter 4: Historicising Accountability: Berlin's Energy Transitions -- 4.1 What Is the Case and Why Is It an Energy Transitions Case? -- 4.2 What Crises of Accountability Are Being Maintained or Challenged? -- 4.3 How Do Environmental Governance Scholars Characterise the Case? -- 4.4 What Practices of Legitimation Appear to Be at Play in Empirical Work? -- 4.5 What Interventions Could Enable Sustainable Outcomes Under Transition? -- References -- Chapter 5: A Few Reflections on Accountability -- 5.1 Accountability and Social Contract -- 5.2 Visibility and Recognition in Indonesia -- 5.3 Reflections -- References -- Chapter 6: Do Climate Targets Matter? The Accountability of Target-setting in Urban Climate and Energy Policy -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Climate Governance as Political-rhetorical Practice -- 6.3 Metrics That Can Legitimate the Sustainability Transition -- 6.4 Following the Target-Norway's Zero Growth Objective -- 6.5 Legitimating Sustainable Transitions -- References.

Chapter 7: Governance and Legitimation in the Transition to Nordic Electric Mobility -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Differing Policy Regimes and Sociotechnical Pathways in the Nordic Region -- 7.3 Contests over Fairness, Participation, Environmental Governance, and Vulnerability -- 7.4 Legitimating or Challenging Automobility? -- 7.5 Policy Suggestions for a More Just and Sustainable Transition -- 7.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: Accountability and the Regulation of Legitimacy: Biodiversity Conservation and Energy Extraction in the American West -- 8.1 Energy Production and Loss of Biodiversity -- 8.2 Legitimation Crisis, Regulation, and Socioenvironmental Change: An Evolutionary Model of Environmental Governance -- 8.3 Accountability Tests and Legitimacy Flows of the Colorado Sage-Grouse Habitat Exchange -- 8.3.1 Construction of a Market-based Habitat Exchange -- 8.3.2 Quantification Tools -- 8.4 Advancing a Sustainable Energy Transition that Supports Sage-grouse -- References -- Part III: Conclusion -- Chapter 9: Practices of Legitimation and Accountability Crises in a Range of Energy Transitions -- 9.1 The Cross-cutting Dimensions Where Legitimation Is Practised in Each Case -- 9.2 The Registers Along Which Legitimation Is Practised in Each Case -- 9.2.1 For Timothy Moss -- 9.2.2 For Christian Lund -- 9.2.3 For Håvard Haarstad -- 9.2.4 For Benjamin Sovacool -- 9.2.5 For Steven Wolf -- References -- Chapter 10: Conclusion: Legitimation and Accountability in Energy Transitions Research -- 10.1 Accountability, Registers, Cross-cutting Dimensions and Practices of Legitimation -- 10.1.1 Spatiality -- 10.1.2 Temporality -- 10.1.3 Opportunism -- 10.1.4 Prefiguration -- 10.1.5 Performativity -- 10.1.6 Power-play -- 10.1.7 Routinisation -- 10.2 Applying Practices of Legitimation Across Registers and Dimensions -- 10.2.1 The Spatiality Dimension.

10.2.2 The Temporality Dimension -- 10.2.3 The Opportunism Dimension -- 10.2.4 The Prefiguration Dimension -- 10.2.5 The Performativity Dimension -- 10.2.6 The Power-play Dimension -- 10.2.7 The Routinisation Dimension -- 10.3 Environmental Governance Research on Accountability in Energy Transitions -- References -- Correction to: Enabling Sustainable Energy Transitions -- Appendix A -- A Workshop, Parallel Exhibitions and Associated Events -- Reference -- Appendix B -- Photos from the Events in Bergen, May 2019 -- The Idea Box for Energy Transitions-An Exhibition at Bergen Public Library -- Potential Exceeds the Demand-An Exhibition at Hordaland Kunstsenter Art Gallery -- Workshop on 'Accountability Analysis: Enabling Sustainability Under Energy Sector Transitions' -- The Case for Hope Amidst Climate Change Catastrophe -- Index.