Beyond technology: A research agenda for social sciences and humanities research on renewable energy in Europe

被引:51
作者
Krupnik, S. [1 ]
Wagner, A. [1 ]
Vincent, O. [2 ]
Rudek, T. J. [1 ]
Wade, R. [3 ]
Misik, M. [4 ]
Akerboom, S. [5 ]
Foulds, C. [6 ]
Stegen, K. Smith [7 ]
Adem, C. [8 ]
Batel, S. [9 ]
Rabitz, F. [10 ]
Certoma, C. [11 ]
Chodkowska-Miszczuk, J. [12 ]
Denac, M. [13 ]
Dokupilova, D. [14 ]
Leiren, M. D. [15 ]
Ignatieva, M. Frolova [16 ]
Gabaldon-Estevan, D. [17 ]
Horta, A. [18 ]
Karnoe, P. [19 ]
Lilliestam, J. [20 ,21 ]
Loorbach, D. [22 ]
Muhlemeier, S. [23 ]
Nemoz, S. [24 ]
Nilsson, M. [25 ]
Osicka, J. [26 ]
Papamikrouli, L. [27 ]
Pellizioni, L. [28 ]
Sareen, S. [29 ]
Sarrica, M. [30 ]
Seyfang, G. [31 ]
Sovacool, B. [32 ,33 ]
Telesiene, A. [10 ]
Zapletalova, V [26 ]
von Wirth, T. [22 ,34 ]
机构
[1] Jagiellonian Univ, Krakow, Poland
[2] Erasmus Univ, Rotterdam, Netherlands
[3] Queens Univ Belfast, Belfast, Antrim, North Ireland
[4] Comenius Univ, Bratislava, Slovakia
[5] Univ Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
[6] Anglia Ruskin Univ, Cambridge, England
[7] Jacobs Univ Bremen, Bremen, Germany
[8] Publ Adm Inst Turkey & Middle East, Ankara, Turkey
[9] Inst Univ Lisboa ISCTE IUL, Cis IUL, Lisbon, Portugal
[10] Kaunas Univ Technol, Vilnius, Lithuania
[11] Univ Turin, Turin, Italy
[12] Nicolaus Copernicus Univ Torun, Torun, Poland
[13] Univ Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia
[14] Slovak Acad Sci, CSPS, Maribor, Slovenia
[15] CICERO Ctr Int Climate Res, Oslo, Norway
[16] Univ Granada, Granada, Spain
[17] Univ Valencia, Valencia, Spain
[18] Univ Lisbon, Inst Social Sci, Lisbon, Portugal
[19] Aalborg Univ, Aalborg, Denmark
[20] Inst Adv Sustainabil Studies, Potsdam, Germany
[21] Univ Potsdam, Fac Econ & Social Sci, Potsdam, Germany
[22] Erasmus Univ, DUTCH RES INST TRANSIT DRIFT, Rotterdam, Netherlands
[23] Verband Schweizer Elektrizitiitsunternelunen, Basel, Switzerland
[24] Univ Bourgogne Franche Comte, Paris, France
[25] Stockholm Environm Inst, Stockholm, Sweden
[26] Masaryk Univ, Brno, Czech Republic
[27] Gen Secretariat Res & Innovat, Athens, Greece
[28] Univ Pisa, Pisa, Italy
[29] Univ Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway
[30] Sapienza Univ Rome, Rome, Italy
[31] Univ East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk, England
[32] Univ Sussex, Brighton, E Sussex, England
[33] Univ Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
[34] Wuppertal Inst Climate Environm & Energy, Wuppertal, Germany
基金
欧盟地平线“2020”;
关键词
Horizon scanning; Research priorities; Funding directions; EU Horizon Europe; Research-policy interface;
D O I
10.1016/j.erss.2022.102536
中图分类号
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
This article enriches the existing literature on the importance and role of the social sciences and humanities (SSH) in renewable energy sources research by providing a novel approach to instigating the future research agenda in this field. Employing a series of in-depth interviews, deliberative focus group workshops and a systematic horizon scanning process, which utilised the expert knowledge of 85 researchers from the field with diverse disciplinary backgrounds and expertise, the paper develops a set of 100 priority questions for future research within SSH scholarship on renewable energy sources. These questions were aggregated into four main directions: (i) deep transformations and connections to the broader economic system (i.e. radical ways of (re) arranging socio-technical, political and economic relations), (ii) cultural and geographical diversity (i.e. contextual cultural, historical, political and socio-economic factors influencing citizen support for energy transitions), (iii) complexifying energy governance (i.e. understanding energy systems from a systems dynamics perspective) and (iv) shifting from instrumental acceptance to value-based objectives (i.e. public support for energy transitions as a normative notion linked to trust-building and citizen engagement). While this agenda is not intended to be-and cannot be-exhaustive or exclusive, we argue that it advances the understanding of SSH research on renewable energy sources and may have important value in the prioritisation of SSH themes needed to enrich dialogues between policymakers, funding institutions and researchers. SSH scholarship should not be treated as instrumental to other research on renewable energy but as intrinsic and of the same hierarchical importance.
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