TY - BOOK ID - 66239091 TI - Pilot Society and the Energy Transition : The co-shaping of innovation, participation and politics AU - Ryghaug, Marianne. AU - Skjølsvold, Tomas Moe. PY - 2021 SN - 3030611841 3030611833 PB - Springer Nature DB - UniCat KW - Environmental policy. KW - Sociology. KW - Energy policy. KW - Energy and state. KW - Environmental geography. KW - Human geography. KW - Environmental Policy. KW - Sociology, general. KW - Energy Policy, Economics and Management. KW - Environmental Geography. KW - Human Geography. KW - Anthropo-geography KW - Anthropogeography KW - Geographical distribution of humans KW - Social geography KW - Anthropology KW - Geography KW - Human ecology KW - Energy and state KW - Power resources KW - State and energy KW - Industrial policy KW - Energy conservation KW - Social theory KW - Social sciences KW - Environment and state KW - Environmental control KW - Environmental management KW - Environmental protection KW - Environmental quality KW - State and environment KW - Environmental auditing KW - Government policy KW - Environmental Policy KW - Sociology, general KW - Energy Policy, Economics and Management KW - Environmental Geography KW - Human Geography KW - Environmental Social Sciences KW - Science and Technology Studies KW - Environmental Studies KW - energy citizenship KW - energy transitions KW - sustainability transitions KW - low carbon energy transitions KW - energy policy KW - social scientific studies of energy transitions KW - open access KW - Central / national / federal government policies KW - Sociology KW - Energy technology & engineering KW - Energy industries & utilities KW - Development & environmental geography UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:66239091 AB - "This important book interrogates scholarship on sustainability transitions with insights from Science and Technology studies (STS) by focusing on pilot projects. The book urges us to look beyond technological solutionism, to examine how the energy transition also requires experimentation and even transformation in social domains. This is a valuable contribution to discussions about how to make energy transitions just, fair and more humane, and it will be an important resource for students and scholars alike. Highly recommended!" - Benjamin K. Sovacool, University of Sussex, UK and Aarhus University Denmark This open access book examines the role of pilot and demonstration projects as crucial devices for conducting innovation in the context of the energy transition. Bridging literature from sustainability transitions and Science and Technology Studies (STS), it argues that such projects play a crucial role, not only in shaping future energy and mobility systems, but in transforming societies more broadly. Pilot projects constitute socio-technical configurations where imagined future realities are materialized. With this as a backdrop, the book explores pilot projects as political entities, focusing on questions of how they gain their legitimacy, which resources are mobilized in their production, and how they can serve as sites of public participation and the production of energy citizenship. The book argues that such projects too often have a narrow technology focus, and that this is a missed opportunity. The book concludes by critically discussing the potential roles of research and innovation policy in transforming how such projects are configured and conducted. Marianne Ryghaug is a professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology where she leads the research group on Energy, Climate and Environment. Over the last twenty years, her work has focused on the linkages between energy and climate policy, technological development and innovation, and public participation. Tomas Moe Skjølsvold is a professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He is the deputy director of the Norwegian Centre for Energy Transition Strategies (NTRANS) and has published extensively on socio-technical aspects of energy transitions, as well as scientific processes within climate and sustainability science over the last years. ER -