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The Role of Public Participation in Energy Transitions
Explains how public involvement facilitates the transition to a more sustainable energy future and how consultation processes are shaping energy policies
Ortwin Renn (Edited by), Frank Ulmer (Edited by), Anna Deckert (Edited by)
9780128195154, Elsevier Science
Paperback, published 21 March 2020
248 pages, 31 illustrations (1 in full color)
23.4 x 19 x 1.7 cm, 0.52 kg
"This reviewer notes the strong role of the states in Germany, which may be typical of states or regions in other countries. In the USA for instance, such approaches could easily be used for renewable energy development in California and New York or British Columbia in Canada or possibly other regions in Europe. Certainly on the national level, Germany stands apart with their continued support for renewable energy development or “Energiewende? as they call it. This book’s blurb stated would be useful for practitioners and energy planners, but it also could be used as a supplemental textbook for energy policy or participatory methods courses. This reviewer wished he had such a book that he could have used for a public participation and environmental mediation course that he taught." --Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences
The Role of Public Participation in Energy Transitions provides a conceptual and empirical approach to stakeholder and citizen involvement in the ongoing energy transition conversation, focusing on projects surrounding energy conversion and efficiency, reducing energy demand, and using new forms of renewable energy sources. Sections review and contrast different approaches to citizen involvement, discuss the challenges of inclusive participation in complex energy policymaking, and provide conceptual foundations for the empirical case studies that constitute the second part of the book. The book is a valuable resource for academics in the field of energy planning and policymaking, as well as practitioners in energy governance, energy and urban planners and participation specialists.
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
Subject Areas: Energy technology & engineering [TH], Energy industries & utilities [KNB]
