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dc.contributor.authorGregg, Jay Sterling
dc.contributor.authorNyborg, Sophie
dc.contributor.authorHansen, Meiken
dc.contributor.authorSchwanitz, Valeria Jana
dc.contributor.authorWierling, August
dc.contributor.authorZeiss, Jan Pedro
dc.contributor.authorDelvaux, Sarah
dc.contributor.authorSaenz, Victor
dc.contributor.authorPolo-Alvarez, Lucia
dc.contributor.authorCandelise, Chiara
dc.contributor.authorGilcrease, Winston
dc.contributor.authorArrobbio, Osman
dc.contributor.authorSciullo, Alessandro
dc.contributor.authorPadovan, Dario
dc.date.accessioned2020-02-24T12:29:21Z
dc.date.available2020-02-24T12:29:21Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.citationGregg, Jay Sterling, Sophie Nyborg, Meiken Hansen, Valeria Jana Schwanitz, August Wierling, Jan Pedro Zeiss, Sarah Delvaux, et al. “Collective Action and Social Innovation in the Energy Sector: A Mobilization Model Perspective.” Energies 13, no. 3 (February 4, 2020): 651. doi:10.3390/en13030651.en
dc.identifier.issn1996-1073en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11556/883
dc.description.abstractThis conceptual paper applies a mobilization model to Collective Action Initiatives (CAIs) in the energy sector. The goal is to synthesize aspects of sustainable transition theories with social movement theory to gain insights into how CAIs mobilize to bring about niche-regime change in the context of the sustainable energy transition. First, we demonstrate how energy communities, as a representation of CAIs, relate to social innovation. We then discuss how CAIs in the energy sector are understood within both sustainability transition theory and institutional dynamics theory. While these theories are adept at describing the role energy CAIs have in the energy transition, they do not yet offer much insight concerning the underlying social dimensions for the formation and upscaling of energy CAIs. Therefore, we adapt and apply a mobilization model to gain insight into the dimensions of mobilization and upscaling of CAIs in the energy sector. By doing so we show that the expanding role of CAIs in the energy sector is a function of their power acquisition through mobilization processes. We conclude with a look at future opportunities and challenges of CAIs in the energy transition.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThis research was conducted under the COMETS (Collective action Models for Energy Transition and Social Innovation) project, funded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Program of the European Commission, grant number 837722.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisherMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)en
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.titleCollective Action and Social Innovation in the Energy Sector: A Mobilization Model Perspectiveen
dc.typejournal articleen
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/en13030651en
dc.relation.projectIDinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/837722/EU/COllective action Models for Energy Transition and Social Innovation/COMETSen
dc.rights.accessRightsopen accessen
dc.subject.keywordsCollective actionen
dc.subject.keywordsSocial innovationen
dc.subject.keywordsMobilization modelen
dc.subject.keywordsEnergy communitiesen
dc.subject.keywordsEnergy collectivesen
dc.issue.number3en
dc.journal.titleEnergiesen
dc.page.initial651en
dc.volume.number13en


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