Sustainable Energy for All - Innovation, Technology and Pro-Poor Green Transformations

Zusatztext 91733002 Informationen zum Autor David Ockwell is Reader in Geography at the University of Sussex, UK, and Deputy Director of Research in the ESRC STEPS Centre. He is also a Senior Research Fellow in the Sussex Energy Group and a Fellow of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. David sits on the board of the Low Carbon Energy for Development Network. Rob Byrne is Lecturer in SPRU (Science Policy Research Unit) at the University of Sussex, UK. With David, Rob co-convenes the Energy and Climate Research Domain of the ESRC STEPS Centre. He is also a Research Fellow in the Sussex Energy Group and a Fellow of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. Rob sits on the board of the Low Carbon Energy for Development Network and is a member of Climate Strategies. Klappentext This book demonstrates the weaknesses of both the existing academic literature on energy access and the dominant contemporary policy framings of the problem. Through detailed historical analysis it clearly demonstrates the value of a new theoretical perspective that it advocates, based on Socio-Technical Innovation System Building. Zusammenfassung This book demonstrates the weaknesses of both the existing academic literature on energy access and the dominant contemporary policy framings of the problem. Through detailed historical analysis it clearly demonstrates the value of a new theoretical perspective that it advocates, based on Socio-Technical Innovation System Building. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: Beyond Hardware Financing and Private Sector Entrepreneurship 2. Innovation Systems for Technological Change and Economic Development 3. Innovation in the Context of Social Practices and Socio-Technical Regimes 4. Emergence and Articulation of the Kenyan Solar PV Market 5. Policy Regime Interactions and Emerging Markets 6. Learning from the Kenyan Solar PV Innovation History 7. Conclusions: Towards Socio-Technical Innovation System Building ...

Product details

• Authors: Rob Byrne, David Ockwell, David (University of Sussex Ockwell, Ockwell David
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.08.2016
• EAN: 9781138656925
• ISBN: 978-1-138-65692-5
• No. of pages: 214
• Series: Pathways to Sustainability
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature and society: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development, Sustainability, NATURE / Ecology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, Alternative & renewable energy sources & technology, Development economics and emerging economies, Energy resources, Alternative and renewable energy sources and technology, Environmental policy and protocols, Sub-Saharan Africa