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S. Sareen (ed.), Enabling Sustainable Energy Transitions,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26891-6_10
CHAPTER 10
Conclusion: Legitimation and Accountability
in Energy Transitions Research
Siddharth Sareen, Timothy Moss, Christian Lund,
Håvard Haarstad, Benjamin Sovacool, and Steven Wolf
Abstract This concluding synthesis argues that practices of legitimation
can empirically deconstruct any given energy transitions case to identify
S. Sareen (*) • H. Haarstad
Department of Geography, Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation,
University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
e-mail: Siddharth.Sareen@uib.no; Havard.Haarstad@uib.no
T. Moss
Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment
Systems (IRI THESys), Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
e-mail: timothy.moss@hu-berlin.de
C. Lund
Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen,
Copenhagen, Denmark
e-mail: clund@ifro.ku.dk
B. Sovacool
Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex, Falmer, UK
e-mail: b.sovacool@sussex.ac.uk
S. Wolf
Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
e-mail: saw44@cornell.edu