Overview
- Accessible overview of key theoretical concepts of the energy transition
- Explores the the social-territorial impact of energy policies
- Discusses the energy transition from a Southern European perspective
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The transformation of the dominant model of centralized energy production from fossil fuels to renewable energies is at the center of the public and scientific debate, as well as the subject of national and European policies, as it is connected to highly topical issues such as climate change, emissions reduction and natural disasters, security of supply and sustainability of the current economic development model.
Up to now this topic has been mainly addressed by the economic and engineering sciences, with a research focus on the hardware rather than on the human and social software.
However, energy systems, and the possibilities of change, are not only economic or technological but involve also patterns of social life, representations, organizational models and relational structures. In order to generate the social preconditions for the transition to a low-emission society, focused on a growing production of energy from renewable sources and on a greater sustainabilityof consumption, it is therefore urgent to reaffirm the centrality of a sociological approach to energy.
This book focused on three core research areas which are crucial to understand what is at stake with the energy transition: conflicts over the construction and location of renewable energy production plants; collective action on renewable sources that promote a new model of energy system in which consumers are also producers; and the social-territorial impact of energy policies.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Giovanni Carrosio is Professor in Environmental Sociology in the Department of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Trieste, Italy. He deals with territorial inequalities and local development, investigating how the ecological transition impacts on social and territorial cohesion. Recently he has started to deal with eco-welfare, in order to integrate the readings on the environmental crisis with those on the fiscal crisis of the state.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Understanding the Energy Transition
Book Subtitle: Civil society, territory and inequality in Italy
Authors: Natalia Magnani, Giovanni Carrosio
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83481-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-83480-7Published: 23 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-83481-4Published: 22 November 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 103
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Environmental Policy, Sociology, general, Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Environmental Geography, Geography, general, Human Geography