[HTML][HTML] Unsettling mainstream academic debates on community-based energy governance: Exploring the Japanese experience

H Koga, S Bouzarovski, S Petrova - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2025 - Elsevier
Community-based energy governance (CEG), in which citizens or communities play a
central role, has attracted sufficient attention in the context of efforts to achieve a democratic …

[HTML][HTML] Out of steam? A social science and humanities research agenda for geothermal energy

RC Spijkerboer, E Turhan, A Roos, M Billi… - Energy Research & …, 2022 - Elsevier
The potential of geothermal energy for energy transition is increasingly recognized by
governments around the world. Whether geothermal energy is a sustainable source of heat …

Green and just regional path development

W Eadson, B van Veelen - Regional Studies, Regional Science, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Path development and path creation are prevalent concepts in efforts to understand regional
economic change and innovation. A recent focus has been on 'green'path development …

[HTML][HTML] Vicarious scale and instrumental imaginaries in community sustainable transitions

GT Aiken, W Eadson, K Hobson, L Dinnie - Global Environmental Change, 2022 - Elsevier
Community initiatives are often charged with scaling-up: growing, deepening their impacts,
and seeding off new projects. The desire to scale-up comes from both within the community …

[HTML][HTML] Energy democracy: A digital future?

E Judson, O Fitch-Roy, I Soutar - Energy Research & Social Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Academic exploration of energy democracy has produced a rich theorization of its
foundations that exhibits significant pluralism in response to different geographic, social …

[HTML][HTML] Mapping the spatial turn in social science energy research. A computational literature review

D Abel, J Lieth, S Jünger - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
Social science scholars have identified a “spatial turn” in energy research over the last three
decades. This article systematically reviews the literature on energy, space, and place and …

[HTML][HTML] Who has the power? Reflections on citizen engagement in district heating schemes in the UK and Sweden

R Bull, W Eadson - Energy Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
District heating (DH) schemes linked to Energy from Waste (EfW) and Biomass facilities
have been championed for their potential to decarbonise heating yet their role in energy …

Community-based energy governance and the political: Towards a post-foundational energy democracy

H Koga, S Petrova… - Progress in Environmental …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Community-based energy governance (CEG) is increasingly seen as reconfiguring existing
socio-environmental power dynamics, contributing to just and democratic energy transitions …

A tale of two coals: the politics of time in coal phase out

B van Veelen - Environmental Politics, 2025 - Taylor & Francis
Collective social and political imaginaries of energy transitions are underpinned by a
particular temporality of linear, teleological paths of progress and modernity, conjuring an …

Renewable energy policy and governance in West Sumatera Province: an overview

H Fajri, AD Akmal, B Saputra, QP Ilham… - … Series: Earth and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract West Sumatera Province is the province with the highest renewable energy mix
target in Indonesia. To realize this target, the Province of West Sumatera has designed a …