TY  - BOOK
TI  - Pilot Society and the Energy Transition: The co-shaping of innovation, participation and politics
SN  - 978-3-030-61184-2
PY  - 2021///
PB  - Springer Nature
KW  - Central / national / federal government policies
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Energy technology and engineering
KW  - Human geography
KW  - Physical geography and topography
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Development & environmental geography
KW  - energy citizenship
KW  - Energy industries & utilities
KW  - energy policy
KW  - Energy Policy, Economics and Management
KW  - Energy technology & engineering
KW  - energy transitions
KW  - Environmental Geography
KW  - Environmental Policy
KW  - Environmental Social Sciences
KW  - Environmental Studies
KW  - Human Geography
KW  - low carbon energy transitions
KW  - open access
KW  - Science and Technology Studies
KW  - social scientific studies of energy transitions
KW  - Sociology, general
KW  - sustainability transitions
N1  - Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/35061
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/43290/1/2021_Book_PilotSocietyAndTheEnergyTransi.pdf
ER  -