Equity, technological innovation and sustainable behaviour in a low-carbon future

BK Sovacool, P Newell, S Carley, J Fanzo - Nature human behaviour, 2022 - nature.com
The world must ambitiously curtail greenhouse gas emissions to achieve climate stability.
The literature often supposes that a low-carbon future will depend on a mix of technological …

[HTML][HTML] Decarbonizing the food and beverages industry: A critical and systematic review of developments, sociotechnical systems and policy options

BK Sovacool, M Bazilian, S Griffiths, J Kim… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
From farm to fork, food and beverage consumption can have significant negative impacts on
energy consumption, water consumption, climate change, and other environmental …

Sociotechnical transitions for deep decarbonization

FW Geels, BK Sovacool, T Schwanen, S Sorrell - Science, 2017 - science.org
Rapid and deep reductions in greenhouse gas emission are needed to avoid dangerous
climate change. This will necessitate low-carbon transitions across electricity, transport …

[HTML][HTML] International review of district heating and cooling

S Werner - Energy, 2017 - Elsevier
The purpose with this review is to provide a presentation of the background for the current
position for district heating and cooling in the world, with some deeper insights into …

[HTML][HTML] The decarbonisation divide: contextualizing landscapes of low-carbon exploitation and toxicity in Africa

BK Sovacool, A Hook, M Martiskainen, A Brock… - Global Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
Much academic research on low-carbon transitions focuses on the diffusion or use of
innovations such as electric vehicles or solar panels, but overlooks or obscures downstream …

What are we doing here? Analyzing fifteen years of energy scholarship and proposing a social science research agenda

BK Sovacool - Energy Research & Social Science, 2014 - Elsevier
Social science related disciplines, methods, concepts, and topics remain underutilized, and
perhaps underappreciated, in contemporary energy studies research. To make this case, the …

[HTML][HTML] The cultural barriers to a low-carbon future: A review of six mobility and energy transitions across 28 countries

BK Sovacool, S Griffiths - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
This review focuses on how culture can complicate and impede attempts at promoting more
efficient, more sustainable, and often more affordable forms of mobility as well as energy use …

Rethinking the governance of energy infrastructure: Scale, decentralization and polycentrism

A Goldthau - Energy Research & Social Science, 2014 - Elsevier
Providing societies with reliable energy services, fighting energy poverty and mitigating
climate change entail a crucial infrastructure component. Both the energy access and the …

What are the social outcomes of climate policies? A systematic map and review of the ex-post literature

WF Lamb, M Antal, K Bohnenberger… - Environmental …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
It is critical to ensure climate and energy policies are just, equitable and beneficial for
communities, both to sustain public support for decarbonisation and address multifaceted …

A New Family of Proton‐Conducting Electrolytes for Reversible Solid Oxide Cells: BaHfxCe0.8−xY0.1Yb0.1O3−δ

R Murphy, Y Zhou, L Zhang, L Soule… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Reversible solid oxide cells based on ceramic proton conductors have potential to be the
most efficient system for large‐scale energy storage. The performance and long‐term …