Energy transition towards renewables is the core of any plausible policy to achieve a low-carbon society and thus avoid the dramatic consequences of climate change. Energy Transition is a complex phenomenon, the trajectories and results of which emerge from the interaction between many technical, institutional, and socio-cultural processes. This publication will focus on the latter and will accept contributions that mainly focus on social innovation processes that have been playing an increasing role in triggering, implementing, and hindering the energy transition in recent years. Among other forms of social innovation, particular attention is devoted to exploring the dynamics and the effects of initiatives inspired by a collective action approach. These initiatives in fact seem to have a great potential in supporting the diffusion of more sustainable models of energy production and consumption and in maximizing the connected environmental and social benefits.\u00a0Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to:\u00a0Interest, motivation, and value in energy transition;\u00a0Energy transition and new social ontology;\u00a0Energy as commons and shared property;\u00a0Social innovation in the frame of energy technical apparatuses;\u00a0The agentic actors of social innovation in the energy field;\u00a0Collective action for energy transition;\u00a0Social innovation as a collective action endeavor;\u00a0Historical and spatial comparative analysis of energy cooperatives;\u00a0Institutional logics and energy communities;\u00a0Collective action and social practices for energy prosumption;\u00a0Collective action as resource mobilization for energy transition;\u00a0The role of cooperation to foster energy democracy;\u00a0The role of social innovation in overtaking energy poverty;\u00a0Energy transition and social inequalities: the stratified world of energy communities.
\nKeywords: energy;\u00a0collective action;\u00a0energy transition;\u00a0renewable energy;\u00a0energy practices;\u00a0resources;\u00a0innovation;\u00a0energy poverty;\u00a0energy democracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","format":"standard","topic":[718,437,308,542,719,650,300,480,491,541,497,706,638],"country":[55],"nsj_language":[57],"class_list":["post-1758","call_for_papers","type-call_for_papers","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","topic-clean-energy","topic-climate-change","topic-complex-systems","topic-energy-production","topic-energy-transition","topic-green-policies","topic-innovation","topic-process-innovation","topic-renewable-energy","topic-renewable-resources","topic-service-innovation","topic-social-impact","topic-social-sustainability","country-switzerland","nsj_language-english"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n