Chapter 6

Cosmopolitan governance for sustainable global energy transformation: democratic, participatory-deliberative, and multilayered

Andreas Klinke,    Environmental Policy Institute, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada

Abstract

Global transformations, such as the shift from fossil energy resources toward more renewable and sustainable energy production, ignite dynamics, processes, and forces, which induce new challenges and problems for traditional structures because major changes in society and politics are shifting from established manners, customs, and generally accepted modes of behavior to new norms and values. Such transformations cause epistemological uncertainty and complexity and challenge ontological fundaments and ethical ...

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