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drivers, nuanced views on the basis for and implications of contemporary
energy sector accountability relations.
These scholars generously agreed to engage and contribute insights
based on their empirical work to collectively consider an analytical
approach centred on the study of practices of legitimation. Featuring their
work from fields as varied as human and economic geography, development studies, energy studies, environmental sociology and history enables
the book to speak to colleagues across wide-ranging disciplines and applied
research traditions. This aims to catalyse a greater analytical focus on
accountable energy transitions within environmental governance
scholarship.
In addition, vibrant fields of social science research on the governance
of energy transitions and cognate subjects furnished arguments to engage
with and concepts to inspire and direct critical thinking. A workshop grant
enabled the co-authors to come together in Bergen during 14–17 May
2019, along with authors of 15 manuscripts prepared for a special issue of
the Global Transitions journal on a closely related theme, for two days of
discussions amongst over 20 scholars. For this opportunity, I am grateful
to the Strategic Programme for International Research Collaboration, and
to the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Bergen. In parallel
with this workshop, I co-organised two public exhibitions. The first was
built around the concept of an ‘Idea box for energy transitions’, and the
second was a collaboration within a show titled ‘Potential exceeds the
demand’ by textile artist Margrethe Brekke.
The idea box for energy transitions was a physical invitation to the public to contribute their solutions for energy transitions by putting sheets
with their writing into a slot in a box painted in the yellow colour of the
Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7. This SDG aims to achieve clean
energy for all. I designed the idea box largely from upcycled materials, and
with the assistance of several colleagues, curated workshops to collect
solutions. The idea box was launched at the opening weekend of the
European Green Capital 2019 in Oslo, from where people posted ideas to
Bergen. It was then installed at the Bergen Public Library from January to
March 2019, and carried around to workshops during this period. These
included a workshop on the accountable governance of sustainable energy
transitions during the National SDG Conference 2019, workshops with
teachers and citizens interested in energy, and an event integrated into the
Klimathon (an annual national event on climate adaptation). A group of
colleagues at the Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation built an
drivers, nuanced views on the basis for and implications of contemporary
energy sector accountability relations.
These scholars generously agreed to engage and contribute insights
based on their empirical work to collectively consider an analytical
approach centred on the study of practices of legitimation. Featuring their
work from fields as varied as human and economic geography, development studies, energy studies, environmental sociology and history enables
the book to speak to colleagues across wide-ranging disciplines and applied
research traditions. This aims to catalyse a greater analytical focus on
accountable energy transitions within environmental governance
scholarship.
In addition, vibrant fields of social science research on the governance
of energy transitions and cognate subjects furnished arguments to engage
with and concepts to inspire and direct critical thinking. A workshop grant
enabled the co-authors to come together in Bergen during 14–17 May
2019, along with authors of 15 manuscripts prepared for a special issue of
the Global Transitions journal on a closely related theme, for two days of
discussions amongst over 20 scholars. For this opportunity, I am grateful
to the Strategic Programme for International Research Collaboration, and
to the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Bergen. In parallel
with this workshop, I co-organised two public exhibitions. The first was
built around the concept of an ‘Idea box for energy transitions’, and the
second was a collaboration within a show titled ‘Potential exceeds the
demand’ by textile artist Margrethe Brekke.
The idea box for energy transitions was a physical invitation to the public to contribute their solutions for energy transitions by putting sheets
with their writing into a slot in a box painted in the yellow colour of the
Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7. This SDG aims to achieve clean
energy for all. I designed the idea box largely from upcycled materials, and
with the assistance of several colleagues, curated workshops to collect
solutions. The idea box was launched at the opening weekend of the
European Green Capital 2019 in Oslo, from where people posted ideas to
Bergen. It was then installed at the Bergen Public Library from January to
March 2019, and carried around to workshops during this period. These
included a workshop on the accountable governance of sustainable energy
transitions during the National SDG Conference 2019, workshops with
teachers and citizens interested in energy, and an event integrated into the
Klimathon (an annual national event on climate adaptation). A group of
colleagues at the Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation built an