Improvements in energy efficiency and reductions in energy demand are expected to
contribute more than half of the reduction in global carbon emissions over the next few …

Building from two strands of literature within “Sociotechnical agendas: Reviewing future
directions for energy and climate research”, this perspective piece seeks to open a …

An almost inexhaustible number of conceptual approaches has arisen in the past few
decades to seek to explain the interlinked phenomena of energy transitions, low-carbon …

Technological innovations seem to be among the great promises for achieving the urgent
modernisation of economies towards carbon-neutrality. Ranging from fusion energy, bio …

As the chapters in this Handbook illustrate, despite increases in our understanding of the
issues raised by the challenge of environmental, social and economic sustainability …

Effective mitigation of climate change will require far-reaching transformations of electricity,
heat, agricultural, transport, and other systems. The energy studies and modeling research …

The energy landscape is changing dramatically. It is populated by many different and
discrete energy transitions happening simultaneously in across different sectors, with …

This paper firstly assesses the usefulness of Christensen's disruptive innovation framework
for low-carbon system change, identifying three conceptual limitations with regard to the unit …

The challenges of sustainable development (and climate change and peak oil, in particular)
demand system-wide transformations in sociotechnical systems of provision. An academic …

The sheer complexity of sustainability transitions makes it vital to develop simplifying
conceptual frameworks. Starting from the contrast between the mainstream innovation …