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UNINA9910831874003321 |
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Autore |
Ockwell David G. |
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Sustainable energy for all : innovation, technology and pro-poor green transformations / / David Ockwell and Rob Byrne |
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Taylor & Francis, 2017 |
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Lodnon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2017 |
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ISBN |
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1-317-22051-X |
1-315-62162-2 |
1-317-22050-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (213 pages) |
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Collana |
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Pathways to Sustainability |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Renewable energy sources - Africa, Sub-Saharan |
Clean energy industries - Africa, Sub-Saharan |
Energy security - Africa, Sub-Saharan |
Solar energy - Kenya |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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1. Introduction : beyond hardware financing and private sector entrepreneurship -- 2. Innovation systems for technological change and economic development -- 3. Innovation in the context of social practices and socio-technical regimes -- 4. Emergence and articulation of the Kenyan solar PV market -- 5. Policy regime interactions and emerging markets -- 6. Learning from the Kenyan solar PV innovation history -- 7. Conclusion : towards Socio-Technical Innovation System Building. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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