UID:
edocfu_9961426933602883
Format:
1 online resource (213 pages).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-317-22051-X
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1-315-62162-2
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1-317-22050-1
Series Statement:
Pathways to Sustainability
Content:
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
Note:
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.
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-138-65692-5
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9781315621623
