Cross-Border Renewable Energy Transitions: Lessons from Europe's Upper Rhine Region

This book explores the renewable energy transition from a local, national, and transnational perspective, providing insights into current developments in the Upper Rhine Region that can serve as an international model. It adopts a multidisciplinary approach anchored in the social sciences, exploring how concrete regional projects emerge and the role of institutional regulations, economic levers, and social interactions in the process.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 244 pages
Publication date: 29 January 2024
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This comprehensive exploration delves into the intricate and multifaceted challenge of transitioning to renewable energy from local, national, and transnational perspectives, offering valuable insights into current developments in the Upper Rhine Region. Organized around the examination of stakeholder concerns, the volume begins by presenting a framework for public action and modeling, followed by a triple complementary focus from the perspectives of law, economics, and sociology. This multidisciplinary approach is firmly rooted in the social sciences, while also exploring the growing debates surrounding technological issues in the implementation of the ecological transition.

Focusing specifically on the Upper Rhine Region, which encompasses France, Germany, and Switzerland, the contributions within analyze how concrete regional projects emerge and the various actors involved in their implementation. From this analysis, it becomes evident that real-world energy transition modes can be best understood as ongoing transactional processes that involve institutional regulations, economic levers, and barriers, as well as social interactions.

This book is of immense interest to advanced students and scholars engaged in the study of renewable energy transition, stakeholder issues, environment and sustainability studies, as well as those who are passionate about the methodological aspects of the social sciences, particularly within the fields of sociology, law, economy, geography, political science, urbanism, and planning. By delving into the complexities of the renewable energy transition, this book provides valuable insights and perspectives that will contribute to the ongoing discourse and efforts towards a sustainable future.

Weight: 453g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032062112