Energy Transitions (eBook)

Olivier Labussière is a researcher at the French National Scientific Research Centre (CNRS). He is member of the Pacte Research Centre (Grenoble, France) where he leads the interdisciplinary “Environments” research group. He studies the relationships between energy, society and space, and their emerging issues and politics in different environments (underground, onshore, offshore, aerial).Nadaï Alain is senior interdisciplinary social scientist at CIRED, the International Research Centre on Environment and Development, a part of French CNRS. His research activity has been centred on environmental controversies and policies, landscape policies, energy transition policies and the societal and spatial changes induced by energy transition processes. He has contributed as a leading author to the IPCC Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation (SRREN, 2011).

Introduction: From ‘The Energy Transition’ to ‘Energy transitions in-the-making’.- Chapter 1: Re-materializing energy transition processes.- Chapter 2: Economizing the Energy Transition.- Chapter 3: The Politics of Policy Instruments.- Chapter 4: The Technological Demonstration at the core of the Energy Transition.- Chapter 5: (Dis)placing or the spatialities the energy transition processes.- Chapter 6: (De)populating or the temporalities of energy transition processes.- Conclusion.