The politics and economics of constructing, contesting and restricting socio-political space for renewables - the German Renewable Energy Act

By V. Lauber, Staffan Jacobsson. 2016

182 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science

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In Global and Planetary Change

1. Karoline S. Rogge
2. F. Kern
3. Benjamin Sovacool
4. Frank W. Geels
5. D. Edmondson
6. J. Schleich
7. Josephine Mylan
8. G. Kungl

In Sociology and Political Science

1. F. Kern
2. Benjamin Sovacool
3. Karoline S. Rogge
4. D. Edmondson
5. J. Schleich
6. Josephine Mylan
7. Frank W. Geels
8. G. Kungl

Citations in the corpus

• Carbon Lock-In: Types, Causes, and Policy Implications (2016, unknown): “This is a significant departure from the dominant information-deficit model commonly assumed by free from lock-in of climate change inaction, we must address the psychological barriers.”
• The enactment of socio-technical transition pathways: A reformulated typology and a comparative multi-level analysis of the German and UK low-carbon electricity transitions (1990–2014) (2016, background): “The renewables support coalitions weakened in this period (Lauber and Jacobsson, 2016), because German RET-industries faced problems due to Chinese competition .”
• Volatile Photovoltaics: Green Industrialization, Sacrifice Zones, and the Political Ecology of Solar Energy in Germany (2021, background): “…its supporting legislation (the Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz, or Renewable Energy Act) was enabled by the significant influence of the Green Party, which was important in shaping the antinuclear and pro-renewables nature of policymaking in Germany from the 1990s onward (Lauber and Jacobsson 2016).”
• Analyzing of a Photovoltaic/Wind/Biogas/Pumped-Hydro Off-Grid Hybrid System for Rural Electrification in Sub-Saharan Africa—Case study of Djoundé in Northern Cameroon (2018, background): “Increasing interest has been given to their utilization since the oil crises of the 1970s [9].”
• Do policy mix characteristics matter for low-carbon innovation? A survey-based exploration of renewable power generation technologies in Germany (2018, background): “…between policy and innovation, typically focusing on the role of the EEG as the core instrument in Germany’s instrument mix, and specifically analyzing its design and co-evolution with technological and wider socio-technical change (Grau, 2014; Hoppmann et al., 2014; Lauber and Jacobsson, 2016).”
• The co-evolution of policy mixes and socio-technical systems: Towards a conceptual framework of policy mix feedback in sustainability transitions (2019, background): “This undermined the case for supporting the roll-out of (Chinese manufactured) PV modules for actors interested in creating industrial benefits in Germany (Lauber and Jacobsson, 2016; Quitzow, 2015b).”