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Beyond Energy Futures. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, April 2009, Pages: 352
This book proposes two approaches to inform energy
and technology policies. Given the lack of tools for
sustainability assessments a ‘Sustainability
Assessment Framework’ is proposed for a systematic
approach to tool selection and design of the next
generation of sustainability assessments. The second
approach is based on an attempt to understand the
dynamics of socio-technical transitions. It suggests
that the guidance to socio-technical transitions may
not come from choices made between technologies, but
instead from choices made about desirable futures.
It is argued that both approaches complement each
other in informing energy and technology policy
regarding transitions to future energy systems.
While the sustainability-driven approach allows us
to assess the sustainability of future technologies
and systems, the transition dynamics-driven approach
informs us about the dynamics of the transition
process and urges us to think of transitions in
terms of a desired future and its characteristics
(i.e. sustainability characteristics). Together the
two approaches inform us on how we might think about
choosing and guiding a desirable future.
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