Auke Pols
Auke Pols is a lecturer in responsible innovation and the ethics of technology at the Knowledge, Technology and Innovation (KTI) group at Wageningen University. As lecturer, he specialises in teaching critical reflection and ethics to students from the engineering, life and social sciences; as PhD coordinator, he is responsible for organising PhD skills training sessions.
Auke’s overarching research field is the organisation of responsibility in socio-technical systems. Specifically, his research interests include:
• Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) and how it can be institutionalised. Auke has developed this topic in the context of the Horizon 2020 project RRI Practice, investigating Wageningen University & Research as a case study;
• Innovation models for economic paradigms not oriented at sustained growth;
• The responsibility of technology and engineers for eliciting human behaviour. Auke has developed this topic in his PhD research;
• Responsibility in energy systems and energy transitions, particularly in the global South. Auke has developed this topic in NWO MVI projects on biofuel production in Tanzania, and on developing and implementing smart grids in India.
Auke’s overarching research field is the organisation of responsibility in socio-technical systems. Specifically, his research interests include:
• Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) and how it can be institutionalised. Auke has developed this topic in the context of the Horizon 2020 project RRI Practice, investigating Wageningen University & Research as a case study;
• Innovation models for economic paradigms not oriented at sustained growth;
• The responsibility of technology and engineers for eliciting human behaviour. Auke has developed this topic in his PhD research;
• Responsibility in energy systems and energy transitions, particularly in the global South. Auke has developed this topic in NWO MVI projects on biofuel production in Tanzania, and on developing and implementing smart grids in India.
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Dilemmas of Energy Transitions in the Global South brings together theoretical and empirical contributions focused on rethinking energy transitions conceptually from and for the global South, and highlights issues of justice and inclusivity. It argues that while urgency is critical for energy transitions in a climate-changed world, we must be wary of conflating goals and processes, and enquire what urgency means for due process. Drawing from a range of authors with expertise spanning environmental justice, design theory, ethics of technology, conflict and gender, it examines case studies from countries including Bolivia, Sri Lanka, India, The Gambia and Lebanon in order to expand our understanding of what energy transitions are, and how just energy transitions can be done in different parts of the world. Overall, driven by a postcolonial and decolonial sensibility, this book brings to the fore new concepts and ideas to help balance the demands of justice and urgency, to flag relevant but often overlooked issues, and to provide new pathways forward.
This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of energy transitions, environmental justice, climate change and developing countries.
The Open Access version of this book, available at https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367486457 has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.