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

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