Routledge Studies in Energy Transitions
About the Book Series
Considerable interest exists today in energy transitions. Whether one looks at diverse efforts to decarbonize, or strategies to improve the access levels, security and innovation in energy systems, one finds that change in energy systems is a prime priority.
Routledge Studies in Energy Transitions aims to advance the thinking which underlies these efforts. The series connects distinct lines of inquiry from geopolitics and politics, planning and policy, industry and management, history of technology, and science, technology and society. In doing so, it provides primary references that function like a set of international, technical meetings. Single and co-authored monographs are welcome, as well as edited volumes relating to themes, like resilience and system risk.
Key focus areas: Geopolitics, governance and policy levers; adoption practices and stakeholder rationales; industries, the supply chain and the circular economy; resilience, safety and security; new business models and market redesign; innovation systems; economies in transitions; technology change; etc. Writing on different types of energy transitions is encouraged.
Dr. Kathleen Araújo is the Director of the Energy Policy Institute with the Center for Advanced Energy Studies, a consortium of public universities, Idaho National Laboratory, and industry. She is also Professor of Sustainable Energy Systems, Innovation and Policy at Boise State University, USA.
If you are interested in submitting a proposal for this series, please contact Annabelle Harris, Editor for Environment and Sustainability: [email protected]
Series Advisory Board
Morgan Bazilian, Columbia University, Center for Global Energy Policy (US)
Thomas Birkland, North Carolina State University (US)
Aleh Cherp, Central European University (CEU, Budapest) and Lund University
Mohamed El-Ashry, UN Foundation
Jose Goldemberg, Universidade de Sao Paolo (Brasil) and UN Development Program, World Energy Assessment
Michael Howlett, Simon Fraser University (Canada)
Jon Ingimarsson, Landsvirkjun, National Power Company (Iceland)
Michael Jefferson, ESCP Europe Business School
Jessica Jewell, IIASA (Austria)
Florian Kern, University of Sussex, Science Policy Research Unit and Sussex Energy Group (United Kingdom)
Derk Loorbach, DRIFT (Netherlands)
Jochen Markard, ETH (Switzerland)
Nabojsa Nakicenovic, IIASA (Austria)
Martin Pasqualetti, Arizona State University, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning (US)
Mark Radka, UN Environment Programme, Energy, Climate, and Technology
Rob Raven, Utrecht University (Netherlands)
Roberto Schaeffer, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Energy Planning Program, COPPE (Brasil)
Miranda Schreurs, Technische Universität Mūnchen, Bavarian School of Public Policy (Germany)
Vaclav Smil, University of Manitoba and Royal Society of Canada (Canada)
Benjamin Sovacool, Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex, UK
Regional Energy Transitions in Australia: From Impossible to Possible
1st Edition
Edited
By Gareth A. S. Edwards, John Wiseman, Amanda Cahill
January 12, 2026
This book provides an accessible and critical appraisal of Australia’s regional energy transition initiatives. The book begins by situating Australian energy transition in the context of Australian and international debates about climate change and energy transition. It then explores how energy ...
Organizing the Dutch Energy Transition
1st Edition
Edited
By Hans van Kranenburg, Sjors Witjes
September 29, 2025
This book addresses learnings from the energy transition in the Netherlands. This book brings together contributions from experts in academia and practice to the Dutch energy transition by sharing their knowledge and experience gained over many years and from different roles and responsibilities. ...
Cross-Border Renewable Energy Transitions: Lessons from Europe's Upper Rhine Region
1st Edition
Edited
By Philippe Hamman
January 29, 2024
This book explores the intrinsically multiscale issue of renewable energy transition from a local, national and transnational perspective, and provides insights into current developments in the Upper Rhine Region that can serve as an international model. Organised around the exploration of ...
Energy Transition in the Baltic Sea Region: Understanding Stakeholder Engagement and Community Acceptance
1st Edition
Edited
By Farid Karimi, Michael Rodi
September 25, 2023
This book analyses the potential for active stakeholder engagement in the energy transition in the Baltic Sea Region (BSR) in order to foster clean energy deployment. Public acceptability and bottom-up activities can be critical for enduring outcomes to an energy transition. As a result, it is ...
Energy Access and Forced Migration
1st Edition
Edited
By Owen Grafham
August 02, 2021
This edited collection brings together a selection of expert authors and draws on a wide range of case studies, geographies, and perspectives to explore the links between forced migration and energy access. This book addresses the paucity of academic study on how energy is delivered to the millions...
Energy Transitions and Social Psychology: A Sociotechnical Perspective
1st Edition
By Paul Upham, Paula Bögel, Katinka Johansen
September 30, 2020
This book explains how social psychological concepts can be closely integrated with sociotechnical perspectives of energy transitions. It shows the value of actor-centred analysis that acknowledges the role of individual-level processes within their wider contexts of energy supply and use. In this ...
Narratives of Low-Carbon Transitions: Understanding Risks and Uncertainties
1st Edition
Edited
By Susanne Hanger-Kopp, Jenny Lieu, Alexandros Nikas
September 30, 2020
"The Open Access version of this book, available at https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429458781, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license." This book examines the uncertainties underlying various strategies for a low-carbon future. Most ...
Transitions in Energy Efficiency and Demand: The Emergence, Diffusion and Impact of Low-Carbon Innovation
1st Edition
Edited
By Kirsten E.H. Jenkins, Debbie Hopkins
September 30, 2020
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781351127264, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. Meeting the goals enshrined in the Paris Agreement and limiting global ...
Energy as a Sociotechnical Problem: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Control, Change, and Action in Energy Transitions
1st Edition
Edited
By Christian Büscher, Jens Schippl, Patrick Sumpf
June 30, 2020
Energy as a Sociotechnical Problem offers an innovative approach to equip interdisciplinary research on sociotechnical transitions with coherence and focus. The book emphasizes sociotechnical problems in three analytical dimensions:- In the control dimension, contributing authors examine how ...
Petroleum Industry Transformations: Lessons from Norway and Beyond
1st Edition
Edited
By Taran Thune, Ole Andreas Engen, Olav Wicken
June 30, 2020
Taking the case of the Norwegian petroleum industry as its vantage point, the book discusses the question of industrial transformations in resource-based industries. The book presents new, empirically-based analyses of the development of the petroleum industry, with an emphasis on three ongoing ...
Sustainable Energy Transformations, Power and Politics: Morocco and the Mediterranean
1st Edition
By Sharlissa Moore
June 30, 2020
This book analyses energy transitions and the opportunities and challenges for building sustainable energy systems to improve human capabilities while protecting the environment. Sufficient and secure energy supply is critical to human thriving and socioeconomic development. Yet energy systems are ...
Visions of Energy Futures: Imagining and Innovating Low-Carbon Transitions
1st Edition
By Benjamin K. Sovacool
March 04, 2019
This book examines the visions, fantasies, frames, discourses, imaginaries, and expectations associated with six state-of-the-art energy systems—nuclear power, hydrogen fuel cells, shale gas, clean coal, smart meters, and electric vehicles—playing a key role in current deliberations about ...