Sustainable Energy Transitions and Regional Growth Paths in the North Sea Basin: A Comparative analysis of North East Scotland and Southern Denmark

可再生能源技术已成为国家和全球政策框架的核心组成部分，被视为全球气候危机的关键解决方案和绿色增长的源泉。然而，对与向可再生能源过渡相关的经济地理学及其在开发新的区域增长路径中的作用的研究相对较少。该项目有助于演化经济地理学（EEG）和可持续转型研究（STR）中关于可持续能源转型背景下的地方和区域路径创建和区域经济分支过程的辩论。通过对苏格兰东北部和丹麦南部地区增长路径的概念性案例研究分析，本文将研究三个RQ：（1）国家、超国家和地区政策和制度框架如何在这两个地区内促进和限制能源转型进程;（2）地区能源公司和组织如何促进能源转型并创造新的增长路径;以及（3）这两个地区在北海盆地新兴能源生产网络中的地位。本项目由合作伙伴埃斯比约港支持，将通过问卷调查、半结构化访谈和文献分析相结合的方式进行研究。这些方法将扎根于一个批判现实主义的框架，强调空间差异和历史偶然性的重要性。这项研究的成果将有助于EEG和STR能源转型研究，并增加英国和丹麦的绿色增长政策架构。

Renewable energy technologies have become a central componentof national and global policy frameworks, heralded as a key solutionto the global climate crisis and as a source of green growth. Yet there is comparatively little research on the economic geographiesassociated with the transition to renewable energy, and their role inthe development of novel regional growth paths. This projectcontributes to growing debates within evolutionary economicgeography (EEG) and sustainable transitions research (STR) onprocesses of local and regional path creation and regional economicbranching within the context of sustainable energy transitions. It willinvestigate three RQs via a conceptually-engaged case-studyanalysis of the regional growth paths of North East Scotland andSouthern Denmark: (1) how national, supra-national and regionalpolicy and institutional frameworks have enabled and constrainedenergy transition processes within the two regions; (2) how regionalenergy firms and organisations are fostering energy transitions andcreating new growth paths; and (3) how the two regions are situatedin emerging energy production networks in the North Sea basin.This project is supported by a collaborative partner - Port Esbjerg -and will be researched through a combination of questionnaires,semi-structured interviews, and documentary analysis. Thesemethods will be grounded in a critical realist framework thatemphasises the importance of spatial differentiation and historicalcontingency. Outputs of this study will contribute to EEG and STRenergy transition research and increasing green growth policyarchitecture in the UK and Denmark.