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Complex Systems and Social Practices in Energy Transitions: Framing Energy Sustainability in the Time of Renewables

Complex Systems and Social Practices in Energy Transitions: Framing Energy Sustainability in the Time of Renewables

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Series: Green Energy and Technology

Business GeneralTechnology & EngineeringEnvironmental Studies

ISBN10: 3319815938
ISBN13: 9783319815930
Publisher: Springer
Published: Jul 17 2018
Pages: 337
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.76 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The Social Construction of Complex Systems.- Complexification in the Energiewende.- Present Energy Metabolism and the Future of Renewables.- Hierarchies, Power and the Problem of Governing Complex Systems.- Community-based Initiatives to Enhance the Sustainability of Energy Systems.- Convergence of Biophysical and Socioeconomic Models of Resource Systems in the Long Term Based on a Complex Systems Approach.- Energy Conservation Policies in the Light of the Energetics of Evolution.- Ontological Fallacies Linked to Energy, Time and Information.- Energy, Time and Social Practice: From Abstractions to Dynamic Processes.- How Flexible are Households in their Energy Consumption? An Analysis of the Rhythm of Everyday Life and its Consequences for Peak Shaving.- Two Political Views on Energy: The Mechanic and Experimental Regimes of Bodies.- Radical Transitions from Fossil Fuel to Renewables: A Change of Posture.- Decomposing Energy Grids: Energy and Power Between Corporate Actors and Final Users.- Complex Adaptive Systems and Energy-saving Social Practices.- Grid Dependencies in the Time of Renewables.

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