Sustainable Energy Transitions and Regional Growth Paths in the North Sea Basin: A Comparative analysis of North East Scotland and Southern Denmark

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Title
Sustainable Energy Transitions and Regional Growth Paths in the North Sea Basin: A Comparative analysis of North East Scotland and Southern Denmark

CoPED ID
ceeb579a-c72f-4e3e-9a46-56fb21f899a8

Status
Active


Value
No funds listed.

Start Date
Sept. 30, 2021

End Date
Nov. 12, 2024

Description

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Renewable energy technologies have become a central component
of national and global policy frameworks, heralded as a key solution
to the global climate crisis and as a source of green growth. Yet there is comparatively little research on the economic geographies
associated with the transition to renewable energy, and their role in
the development of novel regional growth paths. This project
contributes to growing debates within evolutionary economic
geography (EEG) and sustainable transitions research (STR) on
processes of local and regional path creation and regional economic
branching within the context of sustainable energy transitions. It will
investigate three RQs via a conceptually-engaged case-study
analysis of the regional growth paths of North East Scotland and
Southern Denmark: (1) how national, supra-national and regional
policy and institutional frameworks have enabled and constrained
energy transition processes within the two regions; (2) how regional
energy firms and organisations are fostering energy transitions and
creating new growth paths; and (3) how the two regions are situated
in emerging energy production networks in the North Sea basin.
This project is supported by a collaborative partner - Port Esbjerg -
and will be researched through a combination of questionnaires,
semi-structured interviews, and documentary analysis. These
methods will be grounded in a critical realist framework that
emphasises the importance of spatial differentiation and historical
contingency. Outputs of this study will contribute to EEG and STR
energy transition research and increasing green growth policy
architecture in the UK and Denmark.

Gavin Bridge SUPER_PER
Danny MacKinnon SUPER_PER
Andrea Bailey SUPER_PER
Gareth Powells SUPER_PER

Subjects by relevance
  1. Energy policy
  2. Renewable energy sources
  3. Climate policy
  4. Sustainable development
  5. Economic development
  6. Regional development
  7. EEG
  8. Energy
  9. Regional policy
  10. Economic geography
  11. Regional economy
  12. Climate changes
  13. Growth
  14. Green transition
  15. Denmark
  16. Technology policy
  17. Energy technology
  18. Regional differences

Extracted key phrases
  1. Sustainable Energy Transitions
  2. North Sea Basin
  3. Energy transition research
  4. Novel regional growth path
  5. North East Scotland
  6. Energy transition process
  7. Regional Growth Paths
  8. Renewable energy technology
  9. Energy production network
  10. Regional path creation
  11. Green growth policy
  12. New growth path
  13. Energy firm
  14. Regional economic
  15. Global policy framework

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