Blar i Department of Geography på forfatter "Sareen, Siddharth"
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Accountability and sustainability transitions
Sareen, Siddharth; Wolf, Steven A. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)What constitutes a sustainability transition? We identify sustainability transitions as premised on shifts in accountability relations – assessments of conformance with institutional controls coupled with application of ... -
Adivasiness as Caste Expression and Land Rights Claim-Making in Central-Eastern India
Sareen, Siddharth; Oskarsson, Patrik (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)The adivasi population represents a special case in India’s new land wars. Strong individual and community rights to agricultural and forest lands have been enacted for this group based on notions of adivasi identities as ... -
Beyond automobility? Lock-in of past failures in low-carbon urban mobility innovations
Haarstad, Håvard; Sareen, Siddharth; Kandt, Jens; Coenen, Lars Martel Antoine; Cook, Matthew (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Automobility, including the infrastructures, technologies and institutions that created high dependence on private car use, has led to significant environmental and climate problems and notably high carbon emissions. Now ... -
Climate targets as more than rhetoric: Accounting for Norway’s Zero Growth Objective
Haarstad, Håvard; Sareen, Siddharth; Wanvik, Tarje Iversen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Climate-related targets for cities abound, but it is unclear how important they are in driving actual transformations. Scholars have often taken a skeptical view of official climate discourses, including their ambitious ... -
Cross-sectoral metrics as accountability tools for twin transitioning energy systems
Sareen, Siddharth (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)As energy systems become ever more closely intertwined in order to enable electrification and real-time coordination across sectors, tracking the nature of change to ensure accountability during complex implementation ... -
Decision-making and scalar biases in solar photovoltaics roll-out
Sareen, Siddharth; Haarstad, Håvard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Rapid roll-out of solar photovoltaic (PV) energy is a key component of decarbonising energy systems. Yet clear risks are involved, including footprints from land use and infrastructure as well as socio-economic inequalities. ... -
Desert geographies: solar energy governance for just transitions
Sareen, Siddharth; Shokrgozar, Shayan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)While sustainability statements crowd national and urban visions, unjust implementation of lower-carbon energy infrastructures for climate mitigation manifests in contexts of marginal rurality. We focus on solar energy ... -
Double energy vulnerability in the Norwegian low-carbon urban transport transition
Sareen, Siddharth; Waage, Markus; Smirnova, Polina; Boakye Botah, Jeffery; Loe, Morten Ryen (Journal article, 2022)Household energy poverty and transport energy poverty are increasingly recognised as entangled in energy social science. The intersection of these related phenomena is growing due to twin transitions of decarbonisation and ... -
E-scooter regulation: The micro-politics of market-making for micro-mobility in Bergen
Sareen, Siddharth; Remme, Devyn Helen Avhild; Haarstad, Håvard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Micro-mobility market-making represents an under-studied but important aspect of urban transport sustainability transitions. Micro-mobility roll-out combines several critical elements: decarbonisation, digitalisation and ... -
Enabling a just energy transition through solidarity in research
Sareen, Siddharth; Girard, Bérénice; Lindkvist, Peter Mathias; Sveinsdóttir, Anna Guðbjört; Kristiansen, Silje; Laterza, Vito; Støen, Mariel Cristina; Langhelle, Oluf (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)A just energy transition is as much about acknowledging and acting on the socio-material needs of marginalised classes and groups as about informing inclusive and deliberative policy-making towards more equitable energy ... -
Enabling Sustainable Energy Transitions: Practices of legitimation and accountable governance
Sareen, Siddharth (Book; Peer reviewed, 2019)This open access book reframes sustainable energy transitions as being a matter of resolving accountability crises. It demonstrates how the empirical study of several practices of legitimation can analytically deconstruct ... -
Ethics of quantification: illumination, obfuscation and performative legitimation
Saltelli, Andrea; Rommetveit, Kjetil; Sareen, Siddharth (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The increasing use of quantification in all spheres of society is paralleled by the rise of digitalisation. These intertwining developments not only revolutionise data treatment, but also its societal effects. On the one ... -
European energy poverty metrics: Scales, prospects and limits
Sareen, Siddharth; Thomson, Harriet; Herrero, Sergio Tirado; Gouveia, Joao Pedro; Lippert, Ingmar; Lis, Aleksandra (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Energy poverty, a condition whereby people cannot secure adequate home energy services, is gaining prominence in public discourse and on political and policy agendas. As its measurement is operationalised, metrical ... -
Getting profitable CCU off the ground: Contingent pathways and Bergen Carbon Solutions
Sareen, Siddharth; Sagmo, Jan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)As carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS) gains policy traction and pilot project funding, CCS usually gets the limelight, whereas CCU is often overlooked. CCU, if feasible, has two potential advantages: it obviates ... -
Global sustainability, innovation and governance dynamics of national smart electricity meter transitions
Sovacool, Benjamin K.; Hook, Andrew; Sareen, Siddharth; Geels, Frank W. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Smart electricity meters are a central feature of any future smart grid, and therefore represent a rapid and significant household energy transition, growing by our calculations from less than 23.5 million smart meters in ... -
Legitimacy and accountability in the governance of sustainable energy transitions
Sareen, Siddharth; Haarstad, Håvard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)How can we enable equitable decarbonisation? There is a wide gap between power to make transformative decisions, on the one hand, and agency on the part of those affected by climate change, on the other. We converge scholarly ... -
Legitimating power: Solar energy rollout, sustainability metrics and transition politics
Sareen, Siddharth (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Increasing recognition of the irrefutable urgency to address the global climate challenge is driving mitigation efforts to decarbonise. Countries are setting targets, technological innovation is making renewable energy ... -
A matter of time: Explicating temporality in science and technology studies and Bergen's car-free zone development
Sareen, Siddharth; Remme, Devyn; Wågsæther, Katinka; Haarstad, Håvard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)In their article on ‘sociotechnical matters’, Hess and Sovacool (2020) draw on extant STS scholarship to unpack ‘the black box’ of sociotechnical contributions to social science studies of energy. Notably absent in their ... -
Multiscalar Practices of Fossil Fuel Displacement
Sareen, Siddharth; Grandin, Jakob Olof; Haarstad, Håvard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)As renewable energy sources increasingly outcompete fossil fuels on cost and efficiency, novel questions arise around how, when, and where renewables can displace fossil energy. We need to understand fossil fuel displacement ... -
Navigating implementation dilemmas in technology-forcing policies: A comparative analysis of accelerated smart meter diffusion in the Netherlands, UK, Norway, and Portugal (2000-2019)
Geels, Frank W.; Sareen, Siddharth; Hook, Andrew; Sovacool, Benjamin K. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This paper addresses the implementation of technology-forcing policies in open-ended diffusion processes that involve companies and regulators as well as consumers and civil society actors. Mobilising insights from the ...