Blar i UiS Brage på forfatter "Sareen, Siddharth"
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Drivers of Scalar Biases: Environmental Justice and the Portuguese Solar Photovoltaic Rollout
Sareen, Siddharth (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Studying the dynamics of solar photovoltaic (PV) rollout can generate insights on how policies enable and constrain energy transitions. This energy source has low carbon emissions, and has rapidly become economically ... -
E-scooter regulation: The micro-politics of market-making for micro-mobility in Bergen
Sareen, Siddharth; Remme, Devyn Helen Avhild; Haarstad, Håvard (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 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 ... -
Editorial: Urban energy poverty and positive energy districts.
Sareen, Siddharth; Robinson, Caitlin; Thomson, Harriet; Ochoa, Rigoberto García (Journal article, 2022)Cities are important actors in low-carbon energy transitions. They matter as front-runners, trend-setters and decision-makers. They matter as daily settings for over half of humanity. As cities continue to evolve, urban ... -
Electric Vehicle Paradise? Exploring the Value Chains of Green Extractivism
Remme, Devyn; Sareen, Siddharth; Haarstad, Håvard; Rommetveit, Kjetil (Chapter, 2023)Norway has the world-class ambition to make transport more sustainable and climate friendly. Its electric vehicle (EV) rollout is celebrated by and aspirational for other countries, manifesting the imaginary of technological ... -
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 (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-05)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 ... -
Extracting Users: Regimes of Engagement in Norwegian Smart Electricity Transition
Rommetveit, Kjetil; Foss Ballo, Ingrid; Sareen, Siddharth (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-10)Recent efforts to involve digital technologies and renewables in the electricity grid have placed users at center stage in the legitimation of energy transitions. This move has been paralleled by an emphasis on users and ... -
Getting profitable CCU off the ground: Contingent pathways and Bergen Carbon Solutions
Sareen, Siddharth; Sagmo, Jan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)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. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 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 ... -
Individual agency in the social construction of Green Public Procurement: Emergence and implications in Stavanger Municipality
Edland, Andrea (Master thesis, 2023)Given the urgent global climate challenges we face today, it is imperative for actors at all levels - international, national, and local - to take decisive action. In this context, green public procurement (GPP) emerges ... -
Inkluderende nabolagssentrum - Medvirkningsmetoder i kommunale planprosesser
Espelid, Natasha (Master thesis, 2022)Medvirkningsmetoder i kommunale planprosesser er sentrale for å skape et inkluderende og bærekraftig samfunn. Strand kommune er i gang med kommunesplanens arealdel for 2023-2035, der de har satt som mål å utvikle et ... -
Legitimating power: Solar energy rollout, sustainability metrics and transition politics
Sareen, Siddharth (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 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 ... -
Livssyklusanalyser og bærekraftige omstillinger
Kvitrud, Erlend Kulander (Master thesis, 2022)The social and political barriers to sustainability are often presumed to boil down to misalignments of power and motivation. If only those who have the power to initiate sustainability transitions could be motivated to ... -
Looking back to look forward: Reflections from networked research on energy poverty
Jiglau, George; Bouzarovski, Stefan; Dubois, Ute; Feenstra, Mariëlle; Gouveia, João Pedro; Grossmann, Katrin; Guyet, Rachel; Herrero, Sergio Tirado; Hesselman, Marlies; Robic, Slavica; Sareen, Siddharth; Sinea, Anca; Thomson, Harriet (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Energy poverty is a far-reaching concept that intrinsically bridges numerous fields of study, ranging from engineering to anthropology and medical science to social psychology. The profound implications of energy poverty ... -
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 (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-08)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 (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-02)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 ... -
Nature trails and urban inclusion: The integration of city spaces into Sweden's long trekking trails
King, Katrina (Master thesis, 2023)Cities have long been poorly integrated into nature trails, which are popularly associated with rural areas. Yet these trails can be seen as places of connection between the urban and the rural, constituting a mélange of ... -
Navigating implementation dilemmas in technology- forcing policies: A comparative analysis of accelerated smart meter diffusion in the Netherlands, UK, Norway, and Portugal
Geels, Frank W.; Sareen, Siddharth; Hook, Andrew; Sovacool, Benjamin K. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 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 ... -
New municipalism and the governance of urban transitions to sustainability
Sareen, Siddharth; Wågsæther, Katinka Lund (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Cities play increasingly recognised roles in global climate change responses: as change laboratories, spaces of opportunity, and as administrative and economic hubs that concentrate human and financial resources and needs. ... -
The pandemic as a rupture that follows rules: Comparing governance responses in India, USA, Sweden and Norway
Sareen, Siddharth; Nielsen, Kenneth Bo; Oskarsson, Patrik; Remme, Devyn Helen Avhild (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-06)How a country responds to a rupture such as the COVID-19 pandemic can be revelatory of its governance. Governance entails not only the exercise but also the constitution of authority. The pandemic response thus presents a ... -
Public transportation in Sandnes - A mobility justice perspective
Sæther, Karen Haaland (Master thesis, 2021)Urban mobility is changing. The broad agreement on the need for sustainable mobility transitions has resulted in transport- and mobility-related measures locally and nationally worldwide. New trends in mobility call for ...