Responsive Organising for Low Emission Societies

ROLES将确定欧洲城市地区如何通过能源基础设施的数字化加速能源系统的脱碳，同时创造社会效益。尽管公民渴望社会脱碳，但以公正的方式脱碳的行动面临结构性限制。新的研究表明，未能加速深度脱碳是一场问责危机。在能源基础设施数字化方面缺乏问责制可能会加剧社会排斥，并可能导致数据的不公平提取和使用。ROLES将制定改善公民参与和机构的战略，通过探索城市地区的定制途径来解决这一问责危机。它将研究三个中等规模（人口10万至30万）欧洲城市地区的能源基础设施数字化。第一阶段（第三阶段）将确定能源基础设施数字化的途径，这些途径既低碳又有利于低收入群体。它将专注于卑尔根的电动交通枢纽、布莱顿的太阳能社区和特伦托的智能能源监测。通过与政府、企业、民间社会和边缘化群体的多方利益相关者访谈和3次小规模调查（30人），它将共同产生关于每个城市地区数字化需求和举措的结构化、深入的知识。这将包括各种政策组合以及公民的应对战略和参与模式。第二阶段将确定数字化沿着第一阶段开发的途径快速传播的限制和有利条件。它将让利益相关者参与公共活动的讨论，以制定通过数字化加速深度脱碳的途径。我们将采用权力立方体分析-分析权力的水平，空间和形式及其相互关系的社会科学工具-以确定每个途径的政治经济权力动态。最后，第三阶段将提供一个关于响应组织的工具包，以加速能源基础设施的数字化，实现欧洲中型城市地区的深度脱碳。此外，学术成果将讨论响应组织的动态和跨案件。

ROLES will identify how European city-regions can accelerate decarbonisation of energy systems through digitalisation of energy infrastructure, in ways that also create societal benefits. Despite citizen aspirations to decarbonise society, actions that decarbonise in just ways face structural limits. Emerging research suggests that the failure to accelerate deep decarbonisation is a crisis of accountability. Lack of accountability in digitalising energy infrastructure can exacerbate social exclusion and risks inequitable extraction and use of data. ROLES will develop strategies for improving citizen involvement and agency to tackle this accountability crisis by exploring customisable pathways for city-regions. It will examine digitalisation of energy infrastructure in three mid-sized (population 100,000-300,000) European city-regions. Phase I (of III) will identify pathways to digitalise energy infrastructure that are both low carbon and beneficial to low income groups. It will focus on electric mobility hubs in Bergen, solar energy neighbourhoods in Brighton, and smart energy monitoring in Trento. Using multi-stakeholder interviews and 3 small-scale surveys (thirty people) with government, business, civil society, and marginalised groups, it will co-produce structured, in-depth knowledge about digitalisation needs and initiatives in each city-region. These will include the range of policy mixes and citizens' coping strategies and modes of engagement. Phase II will identify constraining and enabling conditions for rapid diffusion of digitalisation along the pathways developed in Phase I. It will involve stakeholders in discussions at public events to develop pathways to accelerate deep decarbonisation through digitalisation. We will employs power cube analysis - a social science tool for analysing the levels, spaces and forms of power, and their interrelationship - to identify political economic power dynamics for each pathway. Finally, Phase III will deliver a toolkit on responsive organising to accelerate the digitalisation of energy infrastructure for deep decarbonisation in mid-sized European city-regions. In addition, academic outputs will discuss dynamics of responsive organising in and across the cases.