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Imagining a hydrogen economy: From grand technological utopia to enabler of the energy transition in three waves since the 1970s 想象氢经济：从宏大的技术乌托邦到20世纪70年代以来三波能源转型的推动者

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Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2025-05-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104084

Laurens S.F. Frowijn , David M. Baneke , Gert Jan Kramer

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Heating up, cooling off: exploring cooling behaviours at home in Aotearoa New Zealand 升温，降温：探索新西兰奥特罗阿家中的降温行为

IF 6.9 2区经济学

Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2025-05-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104128

Kimberley Clare O'Sullivan , Rachel Kowalchuk Dohig , Zhiting Chen , Terence Jiang , Nevil Pierse , Mylène Riva , Runa R. Das

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Regional preconditions and sustainability transition pathways: Insights from circular, bio-based and resource-efficient building material innovations in Vietnam 区域先决条件和可持续性过渡途径：来自越南循环、生物基和资源节约型建筑材料创新的见解

IF 6.9 2区经济学

Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2025-05-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104133

Ravi Jayaweera , Sebastian Losacker , Le Thi Song , Dirk Schwede

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Headlining justice from coalfields to clean futures: How the Australian newsprint media frames a just energy transition 从煤田到清洁未来的头条正义：澳大利亚新闻纸媒体如何构建公正的能源转型

IF 6.9 2区经济学

Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2025-05-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104131

Rachel Walters , Megan Farrelly , Wikke Novalia , Rob Raven

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Norwegian–Polish carbon capture and storage network: Bilateral collaboration for European climate action 挪威-波兰碳捕集与封存网络：欧洲气候行动的双边合作

IF 6.9 2区经济学

Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2025-05-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104106

Mohammad Nooraiepour , Pawel Gladysz , Eirik Melaaen

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The cohort effect in solar energy and nuclear power: unveiling collective agency in energy transitions 太阳能和核能的群体效应：揭示能源转型中的集体作用

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Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2025-05-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104112

J. Stanković, Michiel Bron

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Heating up the energy transition: Comparing energy justice and energy decision-making in individual and collective heating systems to support a just heat transition 加热能源转换：比较个人和集体供暖系统的能源正义和能源决策，以支持公正的热转换

IF 6.9 2区经济学

Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2025-05-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104132

Vanja Djinlev , BinBin J. Pearce

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Too hot to handle? Governance, markets, and the slow burn of geothermal energy in Taiwan 太热了？治理、市场与台湾地热能的缓慢燃烧

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Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2025-05-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104123

Chun-Po Hsieh , Yuwen Liu

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Quantitative analysis of everyday temporality: A practice-based approach in understanding energy peak (in)flexibility 日常时间性的定量分析：一种基于实践的方法来理解能量峰值（在）灵活性

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Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2025-05-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104075

Pui Ting Sahin , Henrike Rau

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Constructing energy futures: Lessons from Reflexive Public Reason in China and Taiwan 建构能源未来：中国与台湾自反性公共理性的经验教训

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Energy Research & Social Science Pub Date : 2025-05-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.104091

Tadeusz Józef Rudek

{"title":"Constructing energy futures: Lessons from Reflexive Public Reason in China and Taiwan","authors":"Tadeusz Józef Rudek","doi":"10.1016/j.erss.2025.104091","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erss.2025.104091","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper explores the application of Reflexive Public Reason (RPR) and the Capturing Invisible Protocol (CIP) in addressing the complexities of energy transitions in China and Taiwan. RPR is a framework that emphasizes reflexivity, co-production and the critical role of imaginaries in shaping energy policy and managing uncertainty and risk. Through a comparative analysis of energy transitions in China and Taiwan, the study highlights sociotechnical imaginaries (STI) and civic epistemologies that guide their approaches to managing uncertainty and risk. As a result, this paper identifies two models of managing uncertainty and risk, China's flexible experimentation model and Taiwan's internally diverse civic epistemology. Building on this comparative dimension, I offer valuable insights for energy transitions around the world and the relationship between different visions of the future, risks and uncertainties, and resilience. Lessons from Chinese and Taiwanese energy transitions can be used as case studies of how resilience to the unknown in energy transitions can be approached differently. I argue that increasing awareness of the relationships between imaginaries, uncertainties, and risks by incorporating reflexivity into energy policy can help to increase resilience of energy transition. Furthermore, this paper argues for the adoption of CIP to systematically map visions, expert knowledge, and governance models. This paper contributes to the discussion on how the energy transition can be governed in different sociopolitical orders and shaped by different sociotechnical imaginaries.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48384,"journal":{"name":"Energy Research & Social Science","volume":"125 ","pages":"Article 104091"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143946909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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