Sustainable Energy for All: Innovation, Technology and Pro-Poor Green Transformations

Sustainable Energy for All: Innovation, Technology and Pro-Poor Green Transformations
ISBN-10
1138656933
ISBN-13
9781138656932
Series
Sustainable Energy for All
Category
Clean energy industries
Pages
214
Language
English
Published
2016-07-29
Publisher
Routledge
Authors
David G. Ockwell, Rob Byrne

Description

Despite decades of effort and billions of dollars spent, two thirds of people in sub-Saharan Africa still lack access to electricity, a vital pre-cursor to economic development and poverty reduction. Ambitious international policy commitments seek to address this, but scholarship has failed to keep pace with policy ambitions, lacking both the empirical basis and the theoretical perspective to inform such transformative policy aims. " Sustainable Energy for All" aims to fill this gap. Through detailed historical analysis of the Kenyan solar PV market the book demonstrates the value of a new theoretical perspective based on Socio-Technical Innovation System Building. Importantly, the book goes beyond a purely academic critique to detail exactly how a Socio-Technical Innovation System Building approach might be operationalized in practice, facilitating both a detailed plan for future comparative research as well as a clear agenda for policy and practice. These plans are based on a systemic perspective that is more fit for purpose to inform transformative policy ambitions like the UN s Sustainable Energy for All by 2030 initiative and to underpin pro-poor pathways in sustainable energy access. This book will be of interest to academic researchers, policy makers and practitioners in the field of sustainable energy access and low carbon development more broadly. "

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