A complexity approach to defining urban energy systems
A complexity approach to defining urban energy systems
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DOI：
10.1016/j.cities.2019.05.027
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发表时间：
2019-12-01
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影响因子：
6.7
通讯作者：
Topp, Kilian
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作者：
Basu, Sumedha;Bale, Catherine S. E.;Topp, Kilian
城市能源系统通常被认为是城市范围内的社会技术系统。然而，最近的文献对这一概念提出了挑战，因为它敦促研究人员关注城市能源系统的更广泛的相互作用和影响，其中社会技术领域也扩展到政治、环境和经济领域。除了部门间的联系外，城市动态环境中能源可持续性的不同因素和多层次治理趋势使城市能源格局变得复杂。因此，有很强的理由建立一种新的城市能源系统概念，建立在对此类系统的这些当代理解的基础上。我们认为，复杂系统方法可以适用于此。在本文中，我们提出了一个以复杂系统理论为整合平面来理解城市能源系统的试点框架。我们回顾了城市能源文献的多个流派，以确定当代的讨论，并构建了这个框架，可以作为研究城市能源系统的不同学术机构的共同本体论理解。最后，我们强调了该框架可以为一些相关社区提供服务的方式。
Urban energy systems have been commonly considered to be socio-technical systems within the boundaries of an urban area. However, recent literature challenges this notion in that it urges researchers to look at the wider interactions and influences of urban energy systems wherein the socio-technical sphere is expanded to political, environmental and economic realms as well. In addition to the inter-sectoral linkages, the diverse agents and multilevel governance trends of energy sustainability in the dynamic environment of cities make the urban energy landscape a complex one. There is a strong case then for establishing a new conceptualisation of urban energy systems that builds upon these contemporary understandings of such systems. We argue that the complex systems approach can be suitable for this. In this paper, we propose a pilot framework for understanding urban energy systems using complex systems theory as an integrating plane. We review the multiple streams of urban energy literature to identify the contemporary discussions and construct this framework that can serve as a common ontological understanding for the different scholarships studying urban energy systems. We conclude the paper by highlighting the ways in which the framework can serve some of the relevant communities.