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Geographies of Solar Energy Transitions: Conflicts, controversies and cognate aspects

Sareen, Siddharth and Martin, Abigail (Eds). (2024) Geographies of Solar Energy Transitions: Conflicts, controversies and cognate aspects. [Book]. UCL Press: London. Green open access

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Abstract

Solar energy is emerging as the world’s largest growing source of power. In recent years, its rollout and growth have produced effects far beyond electricity generation, including a series of cognate challenges and conflicts in diverse geographies of energy transition. Geographies of Solar Energy Transitions focuses on how solar energy governance (both state-based regulations and more market-driven modes of governance) is evolving to address these conflicts in diverse empirical settings. Chapters and case studies by leading energy scholars explore various issues such as formulating new place-specific solar energy visions and strategies, financing specific deployment scales, expanding or replacing electricity infrastructure, accessing land, resolving conflicts surrounding competing land uses, incorporating charging technologies for transport and storage, adopting flexible energy production/consumption relationships, displacing fossil fuel energy production with renewables, enabling new energy ownership models, and addressing the many environmental and social injustices across the value chain of solar expansion including upstream extractivism and downstream waste. Scholarship typically frames these challenges as tangential to the governance of solar energy transitions. By placing them front and centre, the book draws necessary attention to the many wider changes in society that are continuously developing due to the worldwide adoption of solar power.

Type: Book
Title: Geographies of Solar Energy Transitions: Conflicts, controversies and cognate aspects
ISBN-13: 9781800087309
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.14324/111.9781800087309
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800087309
Language: English
Additional information: Collection © Editors, 2024 Text © Contributors, 2024 Images © Contributors and copyright holders named in captions, 2024 Any third-party material in this book is not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence. Details of the copyright ownership and permitted use of third-party material is given in the image (or extract) credit lines. If you would like to reuse any third-party material not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright owner. This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. This licence allows you to share and adapt the work for non-commercial use providing attribution is made to the author and publisher (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work) and any changes are indicated. Attribution should include the following information: Sareen, S. and Martin, A. (eds.) 2024. Geographies of Solar Energy Transitions: Conflicts, controversies and cognate aspects. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800087309 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/
Keywords: Energy geographies, solar, finance, infrastructure, controversies, transition politics
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10196093
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