Siddharth Sareen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3704112 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Siddharth Sareen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Siddharth |
| FAMILY NAME | Sareen |
| SIGNATURE | SAREEN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Lysaker, Norway |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The pathways to net-zero
Industrial decarbonization strategies include transitioning to cleaner energy sources, optimizing production processes, and recovering waste heat in energy-intensive sectors. Manufacturing industries with high energy demands are experiencing structural transformation to facilitate net-zero transitions. Despite these developments, there is limited research on how individual firms implement decarbonization strategies within distinct regulatory and …
Take a hike
A special connection between people and their environment is legally recognized in Norway as Allemannsretten, the right to enjoy a large part of Norwegian nature. Scholarship on leisure mobility, spatial planning, and transport geography recognizes the intrinsic value of this spatial connection. As people travel for outdoor recreation, equitable access to recreation is a goal for just transport systems and must be achieved as these systems are di…
Framing spatiotemporalities of sustainability in new mobility practices and imaginaries
Transport scholars have treated policy processes, social practices, and systemic changes in transport somewhat separately, whereas these phenomena have complex spatiotemporal relationships. The special issue of Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift–Norwegian Journal of Geography conceptualises transitions to sustainable transport systems in spatiotemporal terms – analytically, empirically, and ontologically. It addresses the integration of these domains in…
Watt sense of community? A human geography agenda on energy communities
Energy communities can potentially advance just transitions towards low-carbon systems by devolving energy production and consumption to local scales. During vibrant debates on evolving energy geographies for more than a decade, human geographers have engaged with conceptualization and emergent models of energy communities in generative ways. We argue for a research agenda where these understandings of space, place and scale enhance research on e…
Solidaric solarities
Solar energy has become the world's cheapest and fastest scaling electricity source. Multiple societal sectors are electrifying, and the scale and pace of change give some hope of near-future rapid climate mitigation through solar rollouts despite the bleak record to date. Critiques of utility-scale solar development foreground injustices like displacing marginalised groups and perpetuating resource inequity. Governance scholars argue for stringe…
Drivers of Scalar Biases
Studying the dynamics of solar photovoltaic (PV) rollout can generate insights on how policies enable and constrain energy transitions. This energy source has low carbon emissions, and has rapidly become economically competitive. This combination makes it one of the fastest growing energy technologies globally. Yet its rollout is spatially uneven, and slowed down by drivers other than cost and environmental impact, namely energy infrastructure, r…
Accountability and sustainability transitions
E-scooter regulation
Micro-mobility market-making represents an under-studied but important aspect of urban transport sustainability transitions. Micro-mobility roll-out combines several critical elements: decarbonisation, digitalisation and public space interventions. We theorise the emergence of a micro-mobility market, drawing on innovation studies, micro-politics scholarship and commoning mobility literature, and critically discuss the relationship between innova…
Digitalization as a driver of transformative environmental innovation
This viewpoint argues for an explicit focus on digitalization as a key driver of transformative environmental change and innovation in the next decade. We hold that digitalization is more than a landscape concern. Our piece suggests three elements of a critical approach to digitalization: to examine its ubiquitous unfolding, to study it as a real socio-material phenomenon 'on the ground', and to analyse how it enables new forms of coordination ac…
Validity of energy social research during and after Covid-19
What sticks? Ephemerality, permanence and local transition pathways
Climate change is increasingly governed through local configurations that are characterised by voluntary action, weak institutions and uncoordinated efforts. The impermanent and iterative nature of such initiatives makes it difficult to determine their enduring and potentially transformative impact. This review systematises how the sustainability transitions field has approached temporary initiatives. It finds broad agreement on the difficulty of…
Engaging Rural Indian Interventions
Smart gridlock? Challenging hegemonic framings of mitigation solutions and scalability
Urban energy transitions are key components of urgently requisite climate change mitigation. Promissory discourse accords smart grids pride of place within them. We employ a living lab to study smart grids as a solution geared towards upscaling and systematisation, investigate their limits as a climate change mitigation solution, and assess them rigorously as urban energy transitions. Our 18 month living lab simulates a household energy managemen…
Under What Conditions Can Local Government Nurture Indigenous People’s Democratic Practice? A Case Study of Two Ho Village Assemblies in Jharkhand
This paper asks whether and under what conditions participatory local government can best nurture indigenous peoples’ democratic practice. Based on fieldwork in two similar Ho communities in the Indian state Jharkhand, we show that their village assemblies function differently with regard to meetings, wood access regulation, development projects, and participation. Neither prevents exclusion and co- option. This supports the argument that while l…
Seeing Development as Security
This article examines governmental development interventions and their local-level implications for access to and authority over resources, using a framework of assemblage practices (Li 2007) as an analytical strategy in a mixed-methods study in Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum. This insurgency-affected district, populated by the Ho tribe, has India’s largest iron deposits. It hosts the Saranda Action Plan (SAP), a controversial intervention that exemp…
What sticks? Ephemerality, permanence and local transition pathways
Climate change is increasingly governed through local configurations that are characterised by voluntary action, weak institutions and uncoordinated efforts. The impermanent and iterative nature of such initiatives makes it difficult to determine their enduring and potentially transformative impact. This review systematises how the sustainability transitions field has approached temporary initiatives. It finds broad agreement on the difficulty of…
Digitalization as a driver of transformative environmental innovation
This viewpoint argues for an explicit focus on digitalization as a key driver of transformative environmental change and innovation in the next decade. We hold that digitalization is more than a landscape concern. Our piece suggests three elements of a critical approach to digitalization: to examine its ubiquitous unfolding, to study it as a real socio-material phenomenon 'on the ground', and to analyse how it enables new forms of coordination ac…
Solidaric solarities
Solar energy has become the world's cheapest and fastest scaling electricity source. Multiple societal sectors are electrifying, and the scale and pace of change give some hope of near-future rapid climate mitigation through solar rollouts despite the bleak record to date. Critiques of utility-scale solar development foreground injustices like displacing marginalised groups and perpetuating resource inequity. Governance scholars argue for stringe…
E-scooter regulation
Micro-mobility market-making represents an under-studied but important aspect of urban transport sustainability transitions. Micro-mobility roll-out combines several critical elements: decarbonisation, digitalisation and public space interventions. We theorise the emergence of a micro-mobility market, drawing on innovation studies, micro-politics scholarship and commoning mobility literature, and critically discuss the relationship between innova…
Watt sense of community? A human geography agenda on energy communities
Energy communities can potentially advance just transitions towards low-carbon systems by devolving energy production and consumption to local scales. During vibrant debates on evolving energy geographies for more than a decade, human geographers have engaged with conceptualization and emergent models of energy communities in generative ways. We argue for a research agenda where these understandings of space, place and scale enhance research on e…
Under What Conditions Can Local Government Nurture Indigenous People’s Democratic Practice? A Case Study of Two Ho Village Assemblies in Jharkhand
This paper asks whether and under what conditions participatory local government can best nurture indigenous peoples’ democratic practice. Based on fieldwork in two similar Ho communities in the Indian state Jharkhand, we show that their village assemblies function differently with regard to meetings, wood access regulation, development projects, and participation. Neither prevents exclusion and co- option. This supports the argument that while l…
Seeing Development as Security
This article examines governmental development interventions and their local-level implications for access to and authority over resources, using a framework of assemblage practices (Li 2007) as an analytical strategy in a mixed-methods study in Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum. This insurgency-affected district, populated by the Ho tribe, has India’s largest iron deposits. It hosts the Saranda Action Plan (SAP), a controversial intervention that exemp…
Under What Conditions Can Local Government Nurture Indigenous People’s Democratic Practice? A Case Study of Two Ho Village Assemblies in Jharkhand
This paper asks whether and under what conditions participatory local government can best nurture indigenous peoples’ democratic practice. Based on fieldwork in two similar Ho communities in the Indian state Jharkhand, we show that their village assemblies function differently with regard to meetings, wood access regulation, development projects, and participation. Neither prevents exclusion and co- option. This supports the argument that while l…
Engaging Rural Indian Interventions
Smart gridlock? Challenging hegemonic framings of mitigation solutions and scalability
Urban energy transitions are key components of urgently requisite climate change mitigation. Promissory discourse accords smart grids pride of place within them. We employ a living lab to study smart grids as a solution geared towards upscaling and systematisation, investigate their limits as a climate change mitigation solution, and assess them rigorously as urban energy transitions. Our 18 month living lab simulates a household energy managemen…
Validity of energy social research during and after Covid-19
What sticks? Ephemerality, permanence and local transition pathways
Climate change is increasingly governed through local configurations that are characterised by voluntary action, weak institutions and uncoordinated efforts. The impermanent and iterative nature of such initiatives makes it difficult to determine their enduring and potentially transformative impact. This review systematises how the sustainability transitions field has approached temporary initiatives. It finds broad agreement on the difficulty of…
Drivers of Scalar Biases
Studying the dynamics of solar photovoltaic (PV) rollout can generate insights on how policies enable and constrain energy transitions. This energy source has low carbon emissions, and has rapidly become economically competitive. This combination makes it one of the fastest growing energy technologies globally. Yet its rollout is spatially uneven, and slowed down by drivers other than cost and environmental impact, namely energy infrastructure, r…
Accountability and sustainability transitions
E-scooter regulation
Micro-mobility market-making represents an under-studied but important aspect of urban transport sustainability transitions. Micro-mobility roll-out combines several critical elements: decarbonisation, digitalisation and public space interventions. We theorise the emergence of a micro-mobility market, drawing on innovation studies, micro-politics scholarship and commoning mobility literature, and critically discuss the relationship between innova…
Digitalization as a driver of transformative environmental innovation
This viewpoint argues for an explicit focus on digitalization as a key driver of transformative environmental change and innovation in the next decade. We hold that digitalization is more than a landscape concern. Our piece suggests three elements of a critical approach to digitalization: to examine its ubiquitous unfolding, to study it as a real socio-material phenomenon 'on the ground', and to analyse how it enables new forms of coordination ac…
Solidaric solarities
Solar energy has become the world's cheapest and fastest scaling electricity source. Multiple societal sectors are electrifying, and the scale and pace of change give some hope of near-future rapid climate mitigation through solar rollouts despite the bleak record to date. Critiques of utility-scale solar development foreground injustices like displacing marginalised groups and perpetuating resource inequity. Governance scholars argue for stringe…
Take a hike
A special connection between people and their environment is legally recognized in Norway as Allemannsretten, the right to enjoy a large part of Norwegian nature. Scholarship on leisure mobility, spatial planning, and transport geography recognizes the intrinsic value of this spatial connection. As people travel for outdoor recreation, equitable access to recreation is a goal for just transport systems and must be achieved as these systems are di…
Framing spatiotemporalities of sustainability in new mobility practices and imaginaries
Transport scholars have treated policy processes, social practices, and systemic changes in transport somewhat separately, whereas these phenomena have complex spatiotemporal relationships. The special issue of Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift–Norwegian Journal of Geography conceptualises transitions to sustainable transport systems in spatiotemporal terms – analytically, empirically, and ontologically. It addresses the integration of these domains in…
Watt sense of community? A human geography agenda on energy communities
Energy communities can potentially advance just transitions towards low-carbon systems by devolving energy production and consumption to local scales. During vibrant debates on evolving energy geographies for more than a decade, human geographers have engaged with conceptualization and emergent models of energy communities in generative ways. We argue for a research agenda where these understandings of space, place and scale enhance research on e…
The pathways to net-zero
Industrial decarbonization strategies include transitioning to cleaner energy sources, optimizing production processes, and recovering waste heat in energy-intensive sectors. Manufacturing industries with high energy demands are experiencing structural transformation to facilitate net-zero transitions. Despite these developments, there is limited research on how individual firms implement decarbonization strategies within distinct regulatory and …
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (5 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Energy and Environment Impacts (4 works) · Geography (4 works)