Complex Systems and Social Practices in Energy Transitions Framing E
This book offers an interdisciplinary discussion of the fundamental issues concerning policies for sustainable transition to renewable energies from the perspectives of sociologists, physicists, engineers, economists, anthropologists, biologists, ecologis
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Complex Systems and Social Practices in Energy Transitions Framing Energy Sustainability in the Time of Renewables
Green Energy and Technology
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Nicola Labanca Editor
Complex Systems and Social Practices in Energy Transitions Framing Energy Sustainability in the Time of Renewables
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Editor Nicola Labanca European Commission, Directorate-General Joint Research Centre Unit C.02 Energy Efficiency and Renewables Ispra, VA Italy
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ISSN 1865-3529 Green Energy and Technology ISBN 978-3-319-33752-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-33753-1
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Foreword
The social, ecological, and economic effects of a radical transition from fossil energy to renewable energies cannot be known, but there is a history of human civilization that can inform our thinking. As a hunter/gatherer society, we accessed high-gain food energy and low-gain fuel (wood). Moving about the land allowed a renewal of both once a local area was depleted. As human population
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