Pub Date : 2025-02-11DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.103954
Rebeka Sträter , Richard Lüchinger , Guillaume Zumofen
Seasonal thermal energy storage (STES) is a key technology to address the seasonal intermittency of renewable energy sources and decarbonise the energy sector. Different STES solutions are market-ready or being developed, resulting in a diverse technology landscape. While this diversity adds complexity, it also presents a valuable feature that can support STES diffusion by offering adaptable solutions for diverse needs and preferences. We add a social acceptance lens to STES and examine how laypeople of the general public evaluate different STES technologies at a building and district level. We do so in a proactive manner, i.e., investigating technology acceptance before its (widespread) popularity and diffusion, to capture and compare initial acceptance patterns of STES technologies and derive potential implications of STES and its technological diversity. Empirically, we analyse and present novel cross-section survey data collected in 2022 and 2023 among Swiss residents (N = 589), capturing market and community acceptance of five different STES technologies. Our results suggest that STES technologies exhibit different ‘starting points’ regarding acceptance, with borehole, water and, to a certain extent, latent heat energy storage technologies reaching higher acceptance than ice and thermochemical energy storage technologies.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-10DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.103974
Jenny von Platten , Kathy Davies , Sarah Kilpeläinen , Andreea Vornicu , Aimee Ambrose , Jenny Palm
Home heating transitions influence sociocultural practices and bring about structural changes in daily life. To uncover the power dynamics underpinning these transformations, this paper applies a visionary framework for feminist energy systems designed to challenge hegemonic and unsustainable energy cultures in pursuit of a more just and equitable future. Drawing on the framework's political, economic, socio-ecological, and technological dimensions, we analyse a pan-European collection of 284 oral histories, documenting individuals' memories of past heating arrangements and transitions to new heating systems, collected through the JustHeat project. The project aims to combine reflections on past experiences with visions for the future, revealing new insights into the conditions of contemporary home heating transitions.
The research, conducted across Sweden, Finland, Romania, and the UK, deepens our understanding of how heating transitions have driven sociocultural shifts, such as the shift from warming bodies to heating spaces and from embodied to concealed heating practices. While these changes may have offered greater convenience, our findings reveal that they often came at the expense of reduced enjoyment, less social interaction, and decreased care work associated with keeping warm. By applying the feminist energy systems framework to our findings, this study highlights how dominant power structures, including technomasculinity and ‘green growth’ ideologies, have shaped home heating transitions, de-politicised them, and overlooked relational aspects of energy systems in favour of increased productivity and efficiency. These findings support challenging hegemonic power structures to envision and realise more desirable and inclusive energy transitions, grounded in care, equity and relational sustainability.
{"title":"From warming bodies to heating spaces: Using feminist energy justice and oral histories to unpack home heating transitions in Europe, 1945-present","authors":"Jenny von Platten , Kathy Davies , Sarah Kilpeläinen , Andreea Vornicu , Aimee Ambrose , Jenny Palm","doi":"10.1016/j.erss.2025.103974","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erss.2025.103974","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Home heating transitions influence sociocultural practices and bring about structural changes in daily life. To uncover the power dynamics underpinning these transformations, this paper applies a visionary framework for feminist energy systems designed to challenge hegemonic and unsustainable energy cultures in pursuit of a more just and equitable future. Drawing on the framework's political, economic, socio-ecological, and technological dimensions, we analyse a pan-European collection of 284 oral histories, documenting individuals' memories of past heating arrangements and transitions to new heating systems, collected through the JustHeat project. The project aims to combine reflections on past experiences with visions for the future, revealing new insights into the conditions of contemporary home heating transitions.</div><div>The research, conducted across Sweden, Finland, Romania, and the UK, deepens our understanding of how heating transitions have driven sociocultural shifts, such as the shift from warming bodies to heating spaces and from embodied to concealed heating practices. While these changes may have offered greater convenience, our findings reveal that they often came at the expense of reduced enjoyment, less social interaction, and decreased care work associated with keeping warm. By applying the feminist energy systems framework to our findings, this study highlights how dominant power structures, including technomasculinity and ‘green growth’ ideologies, have shaped home heating transitions, de-politicised them, and overlooked relational aspects of energy systems in favour of increased productivity and efficiency. These findings support challenging hegemonic power structures to envision and realise more desirable and inclusive energy transitions, grounded in care, equity and relational sustainability.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48384,"journal":{"name":"Energy Research & Social Science","volume":"121 ","pages":"Article 103974"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143377536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-02-09DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.103970
Daniel Goodwin , Fred Gale , Heather Lovell , Kim Beasy , Hannah Murphy , Marian Schoen
In this article, we draw on findings from a mixed-methods international survey of experts in the energy sector (n = 179) to better understand the role of legitimacy theory in informing the development of renewable hydrogen standards, certification, and labelling (SCL). The investigation is viewed through two conceptions of legitimacy: the sociological legitimacy of increasing the availability of renewable hydrogen technologies and the normative legitimacy of democratic SCL governance. Results revealed that respondents reacted positively to survey statements representing sociological legitimacy, whereas qualitative data exposed some concerns with pragmatic and cognitive legitimacy such as a lack of immediate benefits and poor comprehensibility stemming from sources including economics and energy strategy. Respondents' ratings of the democratic legitimacy of hydrogen SCLs indicated inputs were perceived to have the most legitimacy followed by throughputs, then outputs. The analysis revealed some evidence that features of scheme design and governance may influence experts' evaluations of schemes. Moreover, results indicated an opportunity to increase awareness and knowledge of SCLs within the expert community and societally. This study provides evidence to support the premise that hydrogen SCLs would benefit from pursuing diversity in stakeholder participation, enhancing process transparency, and judging the efficacy of outputs against both decarbonisation and sustainability goals. Attention to these democratic factors, among others, would enhance the capacity of SCLs to contribute to the sociological legitimation of renewable hydrogen technologies.
{"title":"Expert views on the legitimacy of renewable hydrogen certification schemes","authors":"Daniel Goodwin , Fred Gale , Heather Lovell , Kim Beasy , Hannah Murphy , Marian Schoen","doi":"10.1016/j.erss.2025.103970","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erss.2025.103970","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this article, we draw on findings from a mixed-methods international survey of experts in the energy sector (<em>n</em> = 179) to better understand the role of legitimacy theory in informing the development of renewable hydrogen standards, certification, and labelling (SCL). The investigation is viewed through two conceptions of legitimacy: the sociological legitimacy of increasing the availability of renewable hydrogen technologies and the normative legitimacy of democratic SCL governance. Results revealed that respondents reacted positively to survey statements representing sociological legitimacy, whereas qualitative data exposed some concerns with pragmatic and cognitive legitimacy such as a lack of immediate benefits and poor comprehensibility stemming from sources including economics and energy strategy. Respondents' ratings of the democratic legitimacy of hydrogen SCLs indicated inputs were perceived to have the most legitimacy followed by throughputs, then outputs. The analysis revealed some evidence that features of scheme design and governance may influence experts' evaluations of schemes. Moreover, results indicated an opportunity to increase awareness and knowledge of SCLs within the expert community and societally. This study provides evidence to support the premise that hydrogen SCLs would benefit from pursuing diversity in stakeholder participation, enhancing process transparency, and judging the efficacy of outputs against both decarbonisation and sustainability goals. Attention to these democratic factors, among others, would enhance the capacity of SCLs to contribute to the sociological legitimation of renewable hydrogen technologies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48384,"journal":{"name":"Energy Research & Social Science","volume":"121 ","pages":"Article 103970"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143372201","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-02-08DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.103966
Ivelina Mirkova, Noemi Padrón-Fumero
Achieving a just transition is essential for addressing the climate emergency, particularly in tourism-dependent island economies that face unique vulnerabilities such as environmental pressures, small-scale electricity networks, and heavy reliance on tourism. This study investigates how political dynamics, economic dependencies, and equity concerns influence stakeholder perceptions in tourism-dependent island economies, offering guidance for governance frameworks aimed at sustainable and inclusive outcomes. Framed within the concept of “just transition,” it addresses the multi-sectoral challenges of energy transitions, climate resilience, and sustainability, integrating environmental, social, and economic justice across key sectors like transportation, water management, and tourism. To explore this, we use a mixed-methods approach, engaging 36 stakeholders from various sectors to explore essential elements for a fair transition, including access to information, stakeholder engagement, transparency, and governance. Our findings using Q methodology reveal a range of views influenced by political contexts, from skepticism about policy effectiveness to debates on energy management strategies. The analysis suggests that framing transition issues in a way that prioritizes collaborative problem-solving over ideological divides can reduce polarization, enhance focus on shared goals, and improve perceptions of fairness and inclusiveness making discussions more pragmatic and solution-oriented. To effectively address the social and environmental challenges faced by island regions, policymakers must develop inclusive frameworks that integrate transparent policy evaluation, stakeholder collaboration, and adaptive governance.
{"title":"From vulnerability to resilience: Empowering stakeholder-driven just transitions in island tourism economies","authors":"Ivelina Mirkova, Noemi Padrón-Fumero","doi":"10.1016/j.erss.2025.103966","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erss.2025.103966","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Achieving a just transition is essential for addressing the climate emergency, particularly in tourism-dependent island economies that face unique vulnerabilities such as environmental pressures, small-scale electricity networks, and heavy reliance on tourism. This study investigates how political dynamics, economic dependencies, and equity concerns influence stakeholder perceptions in tourism-dependent island economies, offering guidance for governance frameworks aimed at sustainable and inclusive outcomes. Framed within the concept of “just transition,” it addresses the multi-sectoral challenges of energy transitions, climate resilience, and sustainability, integrating environmental, social, and economic justice across key sectors like transportation, water management, and tourism. To explore this, we use a mixed-methods approach, engaging 36 stakeholders from various sectors to explore essential elements for a fair transition, including access to information, stakeholder engagement, transparency, and governance. Our findings using Q methodology reveal a range of views influenced by political contexts, from skepticism about policy effectiveness to debates on energy management strategies. The analysis suggests that framing transition issues in a way that prioritizes collaborative problem-solving over ideological divides can reduce polarization, enhance focus on shared goals, and improve perceptions of fairness and inclusiveness making discussions more pragmatic and solution-oriented. To effectively address the social and environmental challenges faced by island regions, policymakers must develop inclusive frameworks that integrate transparent policy evaluation, stakeholder collaboration, and adaptive governance.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48384,"journal":{"name":"Energy Research & Social Science","volume":"121 ","pages":"Article 103966"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143350312","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}
Pub Date : 2025-02-08DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.103968
Stefan Ćetković, Jules Bertemes
While the literature on community acceptance of renewable energy projects has largely focused on public acceptance, the factors behind the political approval of renewable energy projects by local decision-makers have remained largely unexplored. In this article, we address this gap by investigating the relationship between the party composition of local parliaments, national election results and deployment of large-scale solar energy projects focusing empirically on the German Federal State of Bavaria during 2008–2020. We find that the party composition of the local parliaments in Bavaria has a strong and robust effect on the likelihood that a municipality will witness the implementation of solar parks. We particularly find that the major negative effect on the deployment of solar parks is associated with the strong presence of the independent local parties in the local parliaments. The success of the Green Party and the far-right populists in national elections has found to be less relevant for the local solar park deployment.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-08DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.103960
Maryem El Farsaoui , Joao M. Uratani , Mohammad Abu Zahra , Steve Griffiths
Carbon capture, utilisation and storage, often referred to simply as CCUS, refers to a suite of technologies to decarbonise many hard-to-abate industries. However, commercial-scale adoption of CCUS technologies faces critical barriers related to application scope, societal acceptance, and financing. Here we propose how fossil energy-exporting countries are uniquely situated to expedite CCUS deployment at scale. Using a sociotechnical systems perspective, we show how one such country, the United Arab Emirates, serves as an important case study for addressing eight different sociotechnical barriers to CCUS adoption. We evaluate the elements that are addressed by factors related to local context and those which represent opportunities for application in other geographies. We argue that scaling-up CCUS is both a duty and opportunity for countries like the UAE as they decarbonise their industries and economies.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-08DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.103964
Khoi Hua, Eva Brungard, Kelly Lynn Anderson, Shannon Halinski, John A. Rupp, John D. Graham
Presidents are important agenda setters in the U.S. policy making process, but the field of presidential studies has paid little attention toward critical minerals and materials policy. This article evaluates the efforts by Presidents Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden to spur the development of a domestic mining and processing sector to supply processed critical minerals and materials for electric vehicles. We focus on seven minerals and materials likely to be essential to batteries and magnet production in the near- and medium-term: cobalt, copper, graphite, lithium, manganese, neodymium, and nickel. Sourcing of these critical minerals and materials within the U.S. is seen as important from security, environmental, and economic perspectives. This article reveals a stunning paradox: three presidents, coming from different political parties and having a multitude of policy disagreements, uniformly agreed for fifteen years (2009–2023) that expanding mining and processing of critical minerals and materials in the U.S. is a national priority. Nevertheless, despite numerous presidential speeches, executive orders, agency activities, permitting processes, and subsidy/loan programs, minimal progress was made in stimulating additional U.S. mines for critical minerals and materials. Our analysis also explores why presidential agendas on critical minerals and materials policy did not lead to any meaningful change, highlighting systemic challenges, policy inconsistencies, and broader barriers, as well as suggestions for future research on how to make progress for the development of a robust U.S. supply chain to support the electric vehicle transition.
{"title":"Presidential agendas without success: United States critical minerals and materials policy to support the electric vehicle transition","authors":"Khoi Hua, Eva Brungard, Kelly Lynn Anderson, Shannon Halinski, John A. Rupp, John D. Graham","doi":"10.1016/j.erss.2025.103964","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erss.2025.103964","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Presidents are important agenda setters in the U.S. policy making process, but the field of presidential studies has paid little attention toward critical minerals and materials policy. This article evaluates the efforts by Presidents Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden to spur the development of a domestic mining and processing sector to supply processed critical minerals and materials for electric vehicles. We focus on seven minerals and materials likely to be essential to batteries and magnet production in the near- and medium-term: cobalt, copper, graphite, lithium, manganese, neodymium, and nickel. Sourcing of these critical minerals and materials within the U.S. is seen as important from security, environmental, and economic perspectives. This article reveals a stunning paradox: three presidents, coming from different political parties and having a multitude of policy disagreements, uniformly agreed for fifteen years (2009–2023) that expanding mining and processing of critical minerals and materials in the U.S. is a national priority. Nevertheless, despite numerous presidential speeches, executive orders, agency activities, permitting processes, and subsidy/loan programs, minimal progress was made in stimulating additional U.S. mines for critical minerals and materials. Our analysis also explores why presidential agendas on critical minerals and materials policy did not lead to any meaningful change, highlighting systemic challenges, policy inconsistencies, and broader barriers, as well as suggestions for future research on how to make progress for the development of a robust U.S. supply chain to support the electric vehicle transition.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48384,"journal":{"name":"Energy Research & Social Science","volume":"121 ","pages":"Article 103964"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143372203","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}
Pub Date : 2025-02-06DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.103969
Yi Lu, Gayani Karunasena, Chunlu Liu
To meet Australia's 2030 goal of a zero-energy and carbon-ready residential building industry, new homes must attain high-performance ratings that are beyond-compliance. However, recent Nationwide House Energy Rating Scheme (NatHERS) data shows that most new residential projects in Victoria (Australia) were designed to meet only the minimum compliance level, without going beyond-compliance. Apart from the commonly examined reasons related to clients and policymakers, an underexplored aspect is the diverse behaviors of building practitioners during the compliance process. To effectively motivate different building practitioners to achieve beyond-compliance outcomes, a fundamental yet unanswered question is: how to segment building practitioners based on behavior constructs. To fill this gap, the study conducts a cluster analysis to explore segments of building practitioners with different beyond-compliance behaviors. Data were collected from a questionnaire survey of 73 residential building practitioners in Victoria, including architects/draftspersons, builders, and thermal performance assessors. Victoria was selected because many new Victorian houses still fail to achieve beyond-compliance, highlighting the importance of exploration. Three clusters of building practitioners were identified: lingerer, characterized by low subjective norms, perceived behavioral control; close-follower, marked by high normative alignment but low attitudes; and leader, distinguished by strong attitudes, subjective norms. The most significant difference between clusters was the subjective norms driven by clients' requests. As the first clustering study to segment building practitioners based on beyond-compliance behaviors, the findings facilitate building practitioners to identify key areas for self-improvement, and also help policymakers develop tailored strategies to promote different segments of building practitioners to go beyond-compliance.
{"title":"Exploring beyond-compliance behaviors of Australian building practitioners: A cluster analysis","authors":"Yi Lu, Gayani Karunasena, Chunlu Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.erss.2025.103969","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.erss.2025.103969","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>To meet Australia's 2030 goal of a zero-energy and carbon-ready residential building industry, new homes must attain high-performance ratings that are beyond-compliance. However, recent Nationwide House Energy Rating Scheme (NatHERS) data shows that most new residential projects in Victoria (Australia) were designed to meet only the minimum compliance level, without going beyond-compliance. Apart from the commonly examined reasons related to clients and policymakers, an underexplored aspect is the diverse behaviors of building practitioners during the compliance process. To effectively motivate different building practitioners to achieve beyond-compliance outcomes, a fundamental yet unanswered question is: how to segment building practitioners based on behavior constructs. To fill this gap, the study conducts a cluster analysis to explore segments of building practitioners with different beyond-compliance behaviors. Data were collected from a questionnaire survey of 73 residential building practitioners in Victoria, including architects/draftspersons, builders, and thermal performance assessors. Victoria was selected because many new Victorian houses still fail to achieve beyond-compliance, highlighting the importance of exploration. Three clusters of building practitioners were identified: lingerer, characterized by low subjective norms, perceived behavioral control; close-follower, marked by high normative alignment but low attitudes; and leader, distinguished by strong attitudes, subjective norms. The most significant difference between clusters was the subjective norms driven by clients' requests. As the first clustering study to segment building practitioners based on beyond-compliance behaviors, the findings facilitate building practitioners to identify key areas for self-improvement, and also help policymakers develop tailored strategies to promote different segments of building practitioners to go beyond-compliance.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48384,"journal":{"name":"Energy Research & Social Science","volume":"121 ","pages":"Article 103969"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143264967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-02-06DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.103971
Lukas Slothuus
The study of policies limiting the production of fossil fuels must be appropriately historicised. Contextualising these policies within a longer-term historical and wider geopolitical perspective helps illuminate the political dynamics and trajectories that variably give rise to, or prevent, such supply-side policies. Attention to this longer history furthermore helps understand the origins of the long-standing, powerful resistance to moving away from producing fossil fuels and how it might be overcome. In this article, I make the case for historicising fossil fuel supply-side policies following broader moves toward historicising the climate crisis. I contribute both conceptually and methodologically to the emerging literature on fossil fuel supply-side policies and broader politics of energy and climate. I chart the limited short-term past and present scope of the academic literature on these policies. I outline the necessary resources and tools, conceptual and practical, for better incorporating a historical dimension, both temporally and geopolitically. These include archival research, analysis of historical policy documents, interviews to construct oral histories and testimonies, as well as engagement with the secondary history literature. I illustrate these points with reference to the prominent supply-side example of Denmark, the first significant oil and gas producer to implement a phaseout policy, before reflecting on how to apply these lessons of historicization to other examples.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-06DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2025.103948
Benjamin K. Sovacool , Frank W. Geels , Allan Dahl Andersen , Michael Grubb , Andrew J. Jordan , Florian Kern , Paula Kivimaa , Matthew Lockwood , Jochen Markard , James Meadowcroft , Jonas Meckling , Brendan Moore , Rob Raven , Karoline S. Rogge , Daniel Rosenbloom , Tobias S. Schmidt , Johan Schot , Darren Sharp , Janet Stephenson , Irja Vormedal , Kejia Yang
Given that several low-carbon transitions are now accelerating, what can we say about the drivers, conditions, mechanisms, and dynamics of acceleration? This question is widely discussed in policy and academic circles, but so far there is little attempt to develop a more comprehensive answer that considers the pluralistic and heterogeneous nature of what acceleration is, how it comes about, and how it can be studied moving forward. To provide a more comprehensive approach to the phenomenon of acceleration, this paper offers a prismatic perspective that mobilizes insights from several social science disciplines and fields that have engaged with acceleration and links them to sustainability transitions. The objectives of the paper are threefold: to map out concepts or tools that are useful for better understanding or interpreting acceleration; to reflect on prominent themes and topics; and to identify research gaps and fruitful directions. Written by an interdisciplinary and authoritative team of authors, the paper draws from a wide range of concepts including but not limited to feedback theory from political science, incumbent reorientation and innovation races from business and management literature, cultural theory and public acceptance from socio-cultural studies, along with insights from consumption studies and sociology. It draws on this corpus to identify five singular dimensions of acceleration (economics, technology, business, policy, and behavior/culture) as well as four multi-dimensional mechanisms (tipping points, multi-system interactions, threshold dynamics and deep leverage points). It then examines underlying drivers and understandings of acceleration before synthesizing perspectives and charting directions for future research.
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