Energy and society

Main goals of the conference are the exchange of knowledge between scientists from different countries and identifying the most actual challenges for sociology of energy, but also networking which enables finding research partners, discussing possibility of scientific and educational coopearation.

We encourage submissions on a wide variety of topics, including but not limited to the following:

• Energy policies as public policies: social impacts of energy transitions, socially conscious shaping of transitions.
• Structural changes to the energy system and changes in society: decentralization, shifts from "big players" to a multitude of actors, from consumer to prosumer.
• Energy transition as local project: local initiatives, citizen power plants, local strategies, and the interplay of governance levels.
• Conceptual approaches to energy transition research: existing concepts-new applications, innovations in theory.
• Energy transition in context: national and regional conditions, paradigms and pathways, energy cultures.
• Interlinking socio-technical systems: energy – water, energy – waste, energy-food.
• Practice, materiality, energy and social change: innovations in practice, embeddedness, technology and change.
• Energy poverty, justice and development: energy poverty research and concepts, environmental justice, political and personal conceptions.
• Public acceptability: implications for energy system transitions, approaches to understanding acceptability.
• Energy demand, markets and innovation: the shaping of demand, implications of energy market innovation for demand.

Please send your abstracts of no more than 250 words by 15th of January 2014 via e-mail: Energyandsociety@uj.edu.pl

Notifications of acceptance will be given by 7th February 2014.