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Record Nr.

UNINA9910831874003321

Autore

Ockwell David G.

Titolo

Sustainable energy for all : innovation, technology and pro-poor green transformations / / David Ockwell and Rob Byrne

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Taylor & Francis, 2017

Lodnon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2017

ISBN

1-317-22051-X

1-315-62162-2

1-317-22050-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (213 pages)

Collana

Pathways to Sustainability

Altri autori (Persone)

ByrneRob

Disciplina

621.0420967

Soggetti

Renewable energy sources - Africa, Sub-Saharan

Clean energy industries - Africa, Sub-Saharan

Energy security - Africa, Sub-Saharan

Solar energy - Kenya

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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. Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781138656925_oachapter01.pdf Chapter 6 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781138656925_oachapter06.pdf