Geographies of energy transition: Space, place and the low-carbon economy
Geographies of energy transition: Space, place and the low-carbon economy
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DOI：
10.1016/j.enpol.2012.10.066
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发表时间：
2013-02-01
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9
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Eyre, Nick
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作者：
Bridge, Gavin;Bouzarovski, Stefan;Eyre, Nick
本文将能源转型作为一个地理过程来考察，涉及当前经济和社会活动的模式和规模的重新配置。本文借鉴了作者在2009至2011年间举办的一系列研讨会，主题为“能源转型的地理：安全、气候、治理”，该研讨会开启了能源研究与人文地理学之间的对话。本文聚焦于英国政府的低碳转型政策，提供了一种概念性的语言来描述和评估向低碳能源转型的地理影响。引入并解释了六个概念：区位、景观、属地、空间分异、尺度和空间嵌入性。举例说明了未来低碳经济的地理位置如何尚未确定，以及一系列不同的--和有争议的--潜在的地理位置未来正在发挥作用。更多地关注向低碳经济过渡将产生的空间和地方，可以帮助更好地理解生活在低碳经济中将是什么样子。它还提供了一种方法来帮助评估可用的选择和途径。(C)2012爱思唯尔有限公司。保留所有权利。
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.