Resilience and agency in mature energy transitions

How can energy systems (with their technical and social parts) remain resilient and functional although it is undergoing fundamental changes?
How do urban utility companies (Stadtwerke / services industriels) contribute to the transition and the resilience of the Swiss and German energy system – in its social and technical domains?

Susan Mühlemeier, PhD Student at the Laboratory for Human Environment Relations in Urban Systems (HERUS) will present answers to these questions during her Public PhD Defence.

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Full title
Resilience and agency in mature sustainability transitions: Theoretical conceptualisation and empirical analysis of actor- & system-level dynamics in socio-technical energy systems
Supervisor: Prof. Claudia R. Binder
Jury members: Dr. Florence Graezer-Bideau, Prof. Matthias Finger, Prof. Derk Loorbach, Dr. Ivo Schillig
 
For more detail, follow the links to the key publications of the dissertation:
 
Resilience of energy systems in transition
Binder, Wyss & Mühlemeier (2017): An Indicator-Based Approach for Analyzing the Resilience of Transitions for Energy Regions. Part I: Theoretical and Conceptual Considerations
Wyss, Mühlemeier & Binder (2018): An Indicator-Based Approach for Analysing the Resilience of Transitions for Energy Regions. Part II: Empirical Application to the Case of Weiz-Gleisdorf, Austria
 
Urban utility companies in Switzerland and Germany
Mühlemeier (2018): Dinosaurs in transition? A conceptual exploration of local incumbents in the Swiss and German energy transition (open access via researchgate)

For catering matters, please indicate if you will attend the defence on site (via this link) until 05. February 2019