Socio-energy systems design: A policy framework for energy transitions

被引:177
作者
Miller, Clark A. [1 ]
Richter, Jennifer [1 ]
O'Leary, Jason [1 ]
机构
[1] Arizona State Univ, Consortium Sci Policy & Outcomes, POB 875603, Tempe, AZ 85287 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
Socio-energy system; Governance; Society; Transition; Design; INNOVATION; SCIENCE; ISSUE;
D O I
10.1016/j.erss.2014.11.004
中图分类号
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
In the context of large-scale energy transitions, current approaches to energy policy have become too narrowly constrained around problems of electrons, fuel, and carbon, the technologies that provide them, and the cost of those technologies. Energy systems are deeply enmeshed in broad patterns of social, economic, and political life and organization, and significant changes to energy systems increasingly are accompanied by social, economic, and political shifts. Energy policy is therefore, in practice, a problem of socio-energy system design. In this article, we offer a definition of socio-energy systems, reconceptualize key questions in energy policy in terms of socio-energy systems change, analyze three case studies of energy policy development as problems of socio-energy systems design, and develop recommendations for rethinking energy policy and governance in the context of socio-energy systems transitions. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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页码:29 / 40
页数:12
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