[HTML][HTML] Barriers to powering past coal: Implications for a just energy transition in South Africa

P Mirzania, JA Gordon, N Balta-Ozkan… - Energy Research & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The feasibility of South Africa's just energy transition, as dictated by the speed of
phasing out coal and scaling up renewables, will rest on a range of techno-economic, socio …

[HTML][HTML] South Africa's energy transition–unraveling its political economy

J Hanto, A Schroth, L Krawielicki, PY Oei… - Energy for Sustainable …, 2022 - Elsevier
The concept of a low-carbon transition is increasingly gaining traction in South Africa. This
constitutes a major technical, social and political challenge as the national energy sector …

Rule of law, corruption control, governance, and economic growth in managing renewable and nonrenewable energy consumption in South Asia

H Mahmood, M Tanveer, M Furqan - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Strong governance is vital for developing environmental policies to promote renewable
energy consumption and discourage nonrenewable energy sources. The present research …

[HTML][HTML] South Africa power reforms: The Path to a dominant renewable energy-sourced grid

OJ Ayamolowo, PT Manditereza, K Kusakana - Energy Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
South Africa power system has undergone several power reforms from the pre-apartheid to
post-apartheid era under various administrations in a bid to meet the increasing energy …

Urban governance and autonomous vehicles

Y Aoyama, LFA Leon - Cities, 2021 - Elsevier
The development and deployment of autonomous vehicles is inseparable from the
questions about the future development of cities. Urban governance is vital in ensuring the …

[HTML][HTML] Solar energy at the peri-urban frontier: An energy justice study of urban peripheries from Burkina Faso and South Africa

R Cantoni, F Caprotti, J de Groot - Energy Research & Social Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Most of the global population that lack access to electricity services live in sub-Saharan
Africa. Peri-urban areas of large African cities, often characterized by the presence of …

Norm domestication challenges for local climate actions: A lesson from Arizona, USA

M Yazar - Environmental Policy and Governance, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Research on norm domestication in multi‐level governance structures is overlooked in
urban climate governance and policy literature. This paper conceptualizes multi‐scalar …

Is the grid people or product? Relational infrastructure networks in Cape Town's energy-housing nexus

C Lemanski, R Massey - Urban Geography, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Although urban infrastructure is widely recognized as a physical-material representation of
socio-political processes, infrastructure networks remain overwhelmingly conceived as …

Smart and disruptive infrastructures: Re-building knowledge on the informal city

K Bobbins, F Caprotti, J de Groot, W Pailman… - Urban …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Smart urbanism is an established research area in geography and the social sciences. We
draw on 'worlding-provincialising'strategies identified in an Urban Studies Special Issue …

Urban electric hybridization: exploring the politics of a just transition in the Western Cape (South Africa)

S Jaglin - Journal of Urban Technology, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Focusing on the adoption of rooftop solar photovoltaics (PV) by high-income households
and businesses in the Western Cape, South Africa, the article analyzes its effects on the …