Journal
ENERGY POLICY
Volume 53, Issue -, Pages 331-340Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2012.10.066
Keywords
Geography; Transition; Low-carbon
Funding
- ESRC [RES 451-26-0692]
- Economic and Social Research Council [ES/H001174/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/G040176/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/G007748/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/G040176/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- ESRC [ES/H001174/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- NERC [NE/G007748/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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This paper makes a case for examining energy transition as a geographical process, involving the reconfiguration of current patterns and scales of economic and social activity. The paper draws on a seminar series on the 'Geographies of Energy Transition: security, climate, governance' hosted by the authors between 2009 and 2011, which initiated a dialogue between energy studies and the discipline of human geography. Focussing on the UK Government's policy for a low carbon transition, the paper provides a conceptual language with which to describe and assess the geographical implications of a transition towards low carbon energy. Six concepts are introduced and explained: location, landscape, territoriality, spatial differentiation, scaling, and spatial embeddedness. Examples illustrate how the geographies of a future low-carbon economy are not yet determined and that a range of divergent - and contending - potential geographical futures are in play. More attention to the spaces and places that transition to a low-carbon economy will produce can help better understand what living in a low-carbon economy will be like. It also provides a way to help evaluate the choices and pathways available. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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