
The Role of Public Participation in Energy Transitions
Description
Key Features
- Explains both key concepts in public participation and involvement, along with empirical results gained in implementing these concepts
- Links theoretical knowledge with conceptual and real-life applications in the energy sector
- Instructs energy planners in how to improve planning and transformation processes by using inclusive governance methods
- Contains insights from case studies in the fully transitioned German system that provide an empirical basis for action for energy policymakers worldwide
Readership
Academics in the field of energy planning, governance and policy making. Practitioners in energy governance and policymakers. Energy planners, urban planners, participation specialists
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Stakeholder involvement and public participation for designing energy policies
Part 1: Concepts of inclusive governance in the energy sector
2. A brief history of the German "Energiewende": Targets, programs and social resonance.
3. The six approaches to inclusive governance: foundations, applications and lessons learned
4. Energy Transition and Civic Engagement
5. From Coal to Renewables: Changing Socio—Ecological Relations of Energy in India, Australia and Germany
6. New Global Governance for Sustainable Global Energy Transformation: Democratic, Participatory-Deliberative, Multilayered
Part 2: Case Studies
7. The Kopernikus Project E-Navi: Linking science, business, and civil society
8. Climate change policies designed by stakeholder and public participation
9. Digital tools in stakeholder participation for the German Energy Transition. Can digital tools improve participation and its outcome?
10. Citizen Participation for wind energy: Experiences from Germany and beyond
11. The contact group – public participation in the distribution network expansion in Baden-Württemberg
12. Social sustainability: Making energy transitions fair to the people
13. Conclusions: Lessons learned
Product details
- No. of pages: 248
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2020
- Published: March 21, 2020
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128195154
- eBook ISBN: 9780128195666
About the Editors
Ortwin Renn

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Frank Ulmer

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Anna Deckert

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