Cross-Border Renewable Energy Transitions: Lessons from Europe's Upper Rhine Region

ISBN-13: 9781032059389 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 244 str.

Philippe Hamman

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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