Presentation: UK Energy Transition – Ideational Variety and Differential Change
From: Caroline Kuzemko
To: 4th International Conference on Sustainability Transitions – Zurich, June 2013
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Summary:
- Takes socio-technical transitions literatures, and Transitions Management, as a starting point upon which to build understandings of low carbon transition
- Add in sociological institutionalism and role of ideas in both constraining, colouring and enabling change
- Principal claim is that governance interventions to support low carbon transition are highly contested
- Case study of UK energy governance change over the past 10 years shows multiple drivers beyond the need to transition to a low carbon economy
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