Recycling energy landscapes: Addressing the sustainable legacy of the world's largest enterprise

IF 6.9 2区经济学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI:10.1016/j.erss.2024.103906

Martin J. Pasqualetti , Richard C. Smardon

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Abstract

This article examines how energy landscapes can be transformed and how we can apply the niche effect of diffusion and adoption of innovation in recycling such energy landscapes into more sustainable reuse. As such, recycling our energy landscapes helps meet the needs of the present while incorporating prudence, intergenerational equity, precaution, responsibility, and governance. We examine how the energy landscapes of the present we are creating today can be reused indefinity for the benefit of all who come after us. Using examples largely from the United States and Germany, we address (1) an emerging process by seeking a meta-frame to encompass a developing and emerging field and (2) the changing temporal context by project cycle, longitudinal or intergenerational models. We find that the manifest benefits and critical needs for recycling energy landscapes are edging out the past practice of site abandonment. The enhanced recycling potential of renewable energy landscapes will add to the value we reap as we transition away from conventional energy resources.

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Energy Research & Social Science ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES-

CiteScore

14.00

自引率

16.40%

发文量

441

审稿时长

55 days

期刊介绍： Energy Research & Social Science (ERSS) is a peer-reviewed international journal that publishes original research and review articles examining the relationship between energy systems and society. ERSS covers a range of topics revolving around the intersection of energy technologies, fuels, and resources on one side and social processes and influences - including communities of energy users, people affected by energy production, social institutions, customs, traditions, behaviors, and policies - on the other. Put another way, ERSS investigates the social system surrounding energy technology and hardware. ERSS is relevant for energy practitioners, researchers interested in the social aspects of energy production or use, and policymakers. Energy Research & Social Science (ERSS) provides an interdisciplinary forum to discuss how social and technical issues related to energy production and consumption interact. Energy production, distribution, and consumption all have both technical and human components, and the latter involves the human causes and consequences of energy-related activities and processes as well as social structures that shape how people interact with energy systems. Energy analysis, therefore, needs to look beyond the dimensions of technology and economics to include these social and human elements.