Cross-Border Renewable Energy Transitions

This book explores the intrinsically multiscale issue of renewable energy transition from a local, national and transnational perspective. Of interest to advanced students and scholars focusing on renewable energy transition, stakeholder issues, environment and sustainability studies.

Autorentext

Philippe Hamman is Full Professor of Sociology at the Institute for Urbanism and Regional Development, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Strasbourg, France.

Inhalt

Part I: From conceptual framework to regional prospective modelling 1. Renewable energy transition beyond borders in Europe: From a literature review to a case study in the Upper Rhine Region 2. A regional cross-border approach to the energy transition: Political context and decarbonisation pathways, renewable energy potentials, and two energy system models Part II: Regulatory frameworks and cross-border cooperation issues 3. Franco-German cross-border cooperation on hydropower implementation: Regulatory issues and future challenges 4. Franco-German partnerships for the production of photovoltaic energy: The difficulties of a cross-border cooperation for renewable energies 5. Deep geothermal energy versus transboundary environmental protection: The law as a conciliation tool? Part III: Economic barriers, opportunities and incentives 6. Chances and barriers to European transnational collaboration in the development of a sustainable energy market: Potentials in the Upper Rhine Region 7. The political economy of a transnational and sustainable electricity market: The expansion of the Trinational Metropolitan Region Upper Rhine (TMO) Part IV: Sociological interplays: key actors and citizen participation 8. Renewable energies in the Upper Rhine Region from a stakeholder viewpoint: Projects, territorialisation and networks in the making 9. Citizen energy cooperatives in the Upper Rhine Region: Commoning issues in the transition towards a decarbonised and decentralised future