The Great Reconfiguration: A Socio-Technical Analysis of Low-Carbon Transitions in UK Electricity, Heat, and Mobility Systems - Softcover

Geels, Frank W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1009198246 ISBN 13: 9781009198240

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2022

Synopsis

Demonstrates a socio-technical reconfiguration approach to low-carbon system transitions for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners.

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About the Authors

Frank W. Geels is Professor of System Innovation and Sustainability at the University of Manchester and a world-leading scholar on socio-technical system transitions. He has published six books and more than 80 peer-reviewed articles, and he was selected in the list of Highly Cited Researchers. He is a lead author of the Working Group III contribution to the 2022 IPCC Sixth Assessment Report, a member of the Scientific Committee of the European Environment Agency, and a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on the New Agenda for Economic Growth and Recovery.

Bruno Turnheim is a permanent research scientist at the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE), based at the Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Science, Innovation and Society (LISIS), Gustave Eiffel University. His research focuses on socio-technical transitions, notably processes of destabilisation and experimentation. He currently leads the WAYS-OUT project on the governance of socio-technical destabilisation pathways and phase-out strategies in the context of climate governance.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1009198246
• ISBN 13: 9781009198240
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 392