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To conclude, we come full circle to the urgency of the climate change
challenge, the need for sustainable energy transitions, and the conundrum
that such sociotechnical transitions are feasible and desperately needed
despite which they are held back in a wide variety of ways. The response
unpacked by means of an accountability-centred analytical approach is that
a dynamic configuration of legitimation practices that constrain and enable
sustainable energy transitions manifest this conundrum. Identifying and
evidencing these practices as applied researchers and analytically oriented
practitioners, we can unravel the present conundrum and advance accountable governance for sustainable energy transitions. We trust that the pointers and reflections offered in this book will motivate and equip colleagues
to support this endeavour.
RefeRences
Blühdorn, I. (2007). Sustaining the unsustainable: Symbolic politics and the politics of simulation. Environmental Politics, 16, 251–275.
International Energy Agency. (2017). World energy outlook 2017. Paris: OECD.
Kraft, B., & Wolf, S. (2018). Through the lens of accountability: Analyzing legitimacy in environmental governance. Organization & Environment, 31, 70–92.
https://doi.org/10.1177/1086026616680682
Lund, C. (2016). Rule and rupture. State formation through the production of
property and citizenship. Development and Change, 47(6), 1199–1228.
Miller, C. (2005). New civic epistemologies of quantification: Making sense of
indicators of local and global sustainability. Science, Technology and Human
Values, 30, 403–432.
Mitchell, W. J., Borroni-Bird, C. E., & Burns, L. D. (2010). Reinventing the automobile personal urban mobility for the 21st century. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Sareen, S. (2019a). Practices of legitimation and accountability crises in a range of
energy transitions. In Enabling sustainable energy transitions: Practices of legitimation and accountable governance. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Sareen, S. (2019b). A typology of practices of legitimation to categorise accountability relations. In Enabling sustainable energy transitions: Practices of legitimation and accountable governance. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Swyngedouw, E. (2010). Apocalypse forever? Post-political populism and the
spectre of climate change. Theory, Culture & Society, 27, 213–232.
Tran, M., Banister, D., Bishop, J. D. K., & McCulloch, M. D. (2012). Realizing
the electric-vehicle revolution. Nature Climate Change, 2, 328–333.
S. SAREEN ET AL.
To conclude, we come full circle to the urgency of the climate change
challenge, the need for sustainable energy transitions, and the conundrum
that such sociotechnical transitions are feasible and desperately needed
despite which they are held back in a wide variety of ways. The response
unpacked by means of an accountability-centred analytical approach is that
a dynamic configuration of legitimation practices that constrain and enable
sustainable energy transitions manifest this conundrum. Identifying and
evidencing these practices as applied researchers and analytically oriented
practitioners, we can unravel the present conundrum and advance accountable governance for sustainable energy transitions. We trust that the pointers and reflections offered in this book will motivate and equip colleagues
to support this endeavour.
RefeRences
Blühdorn, I. (2007). Sustaining the unsustainable: Symbolic politics and the politics of simulation. Environmental Politics, 16, 251–275.
International Energy Agency. (2017). World energy outlook 2017. Paris: OECD.
Kraft, B., & Wolf, S. (2018). Through the lens of accountability: Analyzing legitimacy in environmental governance. Organization & Environment, 31, 70–92.
https://doi.org/10.1177/1086026616680682
Lund, C. (2016). Rule and rupture. State formation through the production of
property and citizenship. Development and Change, 47(6), 1199–1228.
Miller, C. (2005). New civic epistemologies of quantification: Making sense of
indicators of local and global sustainability. Science, Technology and Human
Values, 30, 403–432.
Mitchell, W. J., Borroni-Bird, C. E., & Burns, L. D. (2010). Reinventing the automobile personal urban mobility for the 21st century. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Sareen, S. (2019a). Practices of legitimation and accountability crises in a range of
energy transitions. In Enabling sustainable energy transitions: Practices of legitimation and accountable governance. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Sareen, S. (2019b). A typology of practices of legitimation to categorise accountability relations. In Enabling sustainable energy transitions: Practices of legitimation and accountable governance. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Swyngedouw, E. (2010). Apocalypse forever? Post-political populism and the
spectre of climate change. Theory, Culture & Society, 27, 213–232.
Tran, M., Banister, D., Bishop, J. D. K., & McCulloch, M. D. (2012). Realizing
the electric-vehicle revolution. Nature Climate Change, 2, 328–333.
S. SAREEN ET AL.