Governing the energy transition : reality, illusion or necessity?

By G. Verbong, Derk A. Loorbach. 2012

250 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Energy, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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In General Energy

1. P. Newell
2. Lucy Baker
3. D. Toke
4. Jon Phillips
5. Karoline S. Rogge

In Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

1. P. Newell
2. F. Kern
3. Karoline S. Rogge
4. G. Walker
5. Thomas Hoppe
6. Lucy Baker
7. D. Toke
8. Jon Phillips

Citations in the corpus

• Promoting Community Renewable Energy in a Corporate Energy World (2015, background): “In reality, there is a plethora of energy development pathways, not a simple binary choice (Verbong and Loorbach, 2012), and any account of transition – such as the capacity for community renewables to expand – needs to recognise this”
• Sustainability Transitions Research: Transforming Science and Practice for Societal Change (2017, background): “As with in the energy domain, many societal sectors have historically experienced such major shifts and are likely to do so again in the future (1, 2).”
• Local Governments Supporting Local Energy Initiatives: Lessons from the Best Practices of Saerbeck (Germany) and Lochem (The Netherlands) (2015, background): “This result is in line with those reported by Smith [9], who stresses the importance of having “societal entrepreneurs” available to negotiate and mediate between actors when problems occur that need solving.”
• What Is Energy For? Social Practice and Energy Demand (2014, background): “Whilst the relation between energy and society has been a central theme across the social sciences (Moellers and Zachmann, 2012; Nye, 1999; Rosa et al., 1988; Verbong and Loorbach, 2012; White, 1943), there are significant differences of approach.”
• The pace of governed energy transitions: Agency, international dynamics and the global Paris agreement accelerating decarbonisation processes? (2016, background): “Not surprisingly, much thinking over the last ten years has therefore been about whether it is possible to speed up transitions through means of policy as well as wider societal mobilisation (Verbong and Loorbach, 2012).”
• The Political Economy of Energy Transitions: The Case of South Africa (2014, background): “…transitions literature originally draws from institutional theory, evolutionary economics and the sociology of technology (Rip and Kemp 1998; Geels and Schot 2007) and more recently from political science and theories of governance (Kern 2011; Meadowcroft 2011; Verbong and Loorbach 2012).”
• Discursive regime dynamics in the Dutch energy transition (2014, unknown): “More recent literature, however suggests that regimes can also be drivers of radical change (Stenzel and Frenzel, 2008; Van der Vleuten and Högselius, 2012).”