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Sustainable Energy for All

Innovation, technology and pro-poor green transformations
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Sustainable Energy for All explores the persistent challenge of electricity access in sub-Saharan Africa, focusing on the Kenyan solar PV market. The authors introduce a novel Socio-Technical Innovation System Building approach, combining historical analysis with practical frameworks to guide future research, policy, and practice towards sustainable energy and poverty reduction.

Available chapters 1 and 6 can be freely accessed as Open Access PDFs via the publisher's website.
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This book is ideal for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners focused on sustainable energy access, socio-technical innovation, and development in sub-Saharan Africa and similar contexts.

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This book demonstrates the weaknesses of both the existing academic literature on energy access and the dominant contemporary policy framings of the problem. Through detailed historical analysis it clearly demonstrates the value of a new theoretical perspective that it advocates, based on Socio-Technical Innovation System Building.

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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 precursor 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 operationalised in practice, facilitating both a detailed plan for future comparative research as well as a clear agenda for policy and practice.

Chapters 1 and 6 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at Taylor & Francis under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license.

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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 precursor 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...
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Highly praised for its timely and action-oriented contribution, the book is recognised for connecting previously disconnected academic fields and moving beyond technical and economic aspects to investigate historical, socio-cultural, and political dimensions of energy access. According to Marcus Power, it offers a sophisticated conceptual framework essential for understanding challenges in sustainable energy access and pro-poor green transformations.

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ISBN: 9781138656932

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 August 2016

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 4 Tables, black and white; 11 Line drawings, black and white; 15 Illustrations, black and white

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 362g

Pages: 214

About the Author

David Ockwell is Reader in Geography at the University of Sussex, UK, and Deputy Director of Research in the ESRC STEPS Centre. He is also a Senior Research Fellow in the Sussex Energy Group and a Fellow of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. David sits on the board of the Low Carbon Energy for Development Network. Rob Byrne is Lecturer in SPRU (Science Policy Research Unit) at the University of Sussex, UK. With David, Rob co-convenes the Energy and Climate Research Domain of the ESRC STEPS Centre. He is also a Research Fellow in the Sussex Energy Group and a Fellow of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. Rob sits on the board of the Low Carbon Energy for Development Network and is a member of Climate Strategies.

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