Skip to content Skip to navigation
University of Warwick
  • Study
  • |
  • Research
  • |
  • Business
  • |
  • Alumni
  • |
  • News
  • |
  • About

University of Warwick
Publications service & WRAP

Highlight your research

  • WRAP
    • Home
    • Search WRAP
    • Browse by Warwick Author
    • Browse WRAP by Year
    • Browse WRAP by Subject
    • Browse WRAP by Department
    • Browse WRAP by Funder
    • Browse Theses by Department
  • Publications Service
    • Home
    • Search Publications Service
    • Browse by Warwick Author
    • Browse Publications service by Year
    • Browse Publications service by Subject
    • Browse Publications service by Department
    • Browse Publications service by Funder
  • Help & Advice
University of Warwick

The Library

  • Login
  • Admin

A complexity approach to defining urban energy systems

Tools
- Tools
+ Tools

Basu, Sumedha, Bale, Catherine S. E., Wehnert, Timon and Topp, Kilian (2019) A complexity approach to defining urban energy systems. Cities, 95 . 102358. doi:10.1016/j.cities.2019.05.027

[img]
Preview
PDF
WRAP-complexity-defining-urban-energy-Basu-2019.pdf - Published Version - Requires a PDF viewer.
Available under License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.

Download (1652Kb) | Preview
Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2019.05.027

Request Changes to record.

Abstract

Urban energy systems have been commonly considered to be socio-technical systems within the boundaries of an urban area. However, recent literature challenges this notion in that it urges researchers to look at the wider interactions and influences of urban energy systems wherein the socio-technical sphere is expanded to political, environmental and economic realms as well. In addition to the inter-sectoral linkages, the diverse agents and multilevel governance trends of energy sustainability in the dynamic environment of cities make the urban energy landscape a complex one. There is a strong case then for establishing a new conceptualisation of urban energy systems that builds upon these contemporary understandings of such systems. We argue that the complex systems approach can be suitable for this. In this paper, we propose a pilot framework for understanding urban energy systems using complex systems theory as an integrating plane. We review the multiple streams of urban energy literature to identify the contemporary discussions and construct this framework that can serve as a common ontological understanding for the different scholarships studying urban energy systems. We conclude the paper by highlighting the ways in which the framework can serve some of the relevant communities.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Cities and towns -- Energy consumption, Power resources -- Research, Energy development -- Environmental aspects, Sustainable urban development, City planning -- Philosophy, Complexity (Philosophy)
Journal or Publication Title: Cities
Publisher: Elsevier Inc.
ISSN: 0264-2751
Official Date: December 2019
Dates:
DateEvent
December 2019Published
27 June 2019Available
24 May 2019Accepted
Volume: 95
Article Number: 102358
DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2019.05.027
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Open Access
RIOXX Funder/Project Grant:
Project/Grant IDRIOXX Funder NameFunder ID
EP/K022288/1[EPSRC] Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Councilhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000266
UNSPECIFIEDInternational Climate Protection FellowshipUNSPECIFIED
UNSPECIFIEDAlexander von Humboldt-Stiftunghttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100005156
UNSPECIFIEDWuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energyhttp://viaf.org/viaf/265659231

Request changes or add full text files to a record

Repository staff actions (login required)

View Item View Item

Downloads

Downloads per month over past year

View more statistics

twitter

Email us: wrap@warwick.ac.uk
Contact Details
About Us