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DOI | 10.1016/j.enpol.2017.08.006 |
The landscape of energy initiatives in sub-Saharan Africa: Going for systemic change or reinforcing the status quo? | |
Baptista, Idalina1; Plananska, Jana1,2 | |
2017-11-01 | |
发表期刊 | ENERGY POLICY |
ISSN | 0301-4215 |
EISSN | 1873-6777 |
出版年 | 2017 |
卷号 | 110页码:43473 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | England; Czech Republic |
英文摘要 | This article examines recent interventions by major players in sub-Saharan Africa's energy sector and asks whether they acknowledge or seek to address energy as a complex problem and energy systems as socio-technical systems. Several scholars have begun advocating the socio-technical approach to energy by noting that the mainstream conceptualization of energy challenges in strictly technological or economic terms does not capture the complexity and inertia inherent to energy systems. Moreover, the article also seeks to examine how well have recent interventions integrated pro-poor and low-carbon concerns, two of the major tenets of UN's Sustainable Development Goal 7. Findings suggest that initiatives studied take only partial consideration of key aspects of a socio-technical approach to the energy problem. Nonetheless, the initiatives have taken on board pro-poor and low-carbon concerns to a certain extent. Two main policy implications are drawn from this study: a continued focus on status quo approaches has the potential to generate investment inefficiencies; and an effective low carbon transition will require a broader discussions about the types of lifestyles people in sub-Saharan Africa aspire to. |
英文关键词 | Energy transitions Sub-Saharan Africa Electricity access Renewable energy Socio-technical approach |
领域 | 气候变化 |
收录类别 | SCI-E ; SSCI |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000417660800001 |
WOS关键词 | POLITICAL-ECONOMY ; SPECIAL-ISSUE ; GOVERNANCE ; TRANSITIONS ; CHALLENGES ; POVERTY ; POWER ; URBANIZATION ; ACCESS ; SECTOR |
WOS类目 | Economics ; Energy & Fuels ; Environmental Sciences ; Environmental Studies |
WOS研究方向 | Business & Economics ; Energy & Fuels ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology |
引用统计 | |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/18221 |
专题 | 气候变化 |
作者单位 | 1.Univ Oxford, Dept Continuing Educ, Sustainable Urban Dev Programme, Rewley House,1 Wellington Sq, Oxford OX1 2JA, England; 2.Klasterem 371, Tabor 39003, Czech Republic |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Baptista, Idalina,Plananska, Jana. The landscape of energy initiatives in sub-Saharan Africa: Going for systemic change or reinforcing the status quo?[J]. ENERGY POLICY,2017,110:43473. |
APA | Baptista, Idalina,&Plananska, Jana.(2017).The landscape of energy initiatives in sub-Saharan Africa: Going for systemic change or reinforcing the status quo?.ENERGY POLICY,110,43473. |
MLA | Baptista, Idalina,et al."The landscape of energy initiatives in sub-Saharan Africa: Going for systemic change or reinforcing the status quo?".ENERGY POLICY 110(2017):43473. |
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