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Applying Roadmapping and Conceptual Modeling to the Energy Transition: A Local Case Study

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  • Gerrit Muller

    (Faculty of Technology, Natural Sciences and Maritime Sciences, Campus Kongsberg, University of South-Eastern Norway, Kongsberg 3616, Norway)

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The climate crisis requires a global transition toward sustainable practices. In this transition, policy makers face the challenge to take along a wide variety of stakeholders with own interests, needs, and concerns. This research explores the combined use of conceptual models and roadmapping to facilitate understanding, communication, reasoning, and decision-making between a large heterogeneous set of stakeholders. We apply these methods, in the form of action research, in several smaller research projects at a small town in the Netherlands. We find that the combination of conceptual modeling and roadmapping facilitates discussions between heterogeneous stakeholders on complex transition problems, such as the energy transition, at a local scale. However, we see a significant gap in the way of thinking and communicating between experts and decision-makers, which requires additional means to connect them.

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  • Gerrit Muller, 2021. "Applying Roadmapping and Conceptual Modeling to the Energy Transition: A Local Case Study," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(7), pages 1-16, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:13:y:2021:i:7:p:3683-:d:524445
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    1. Cecilia Haskins, 2021. "Systems Engineering for Sustainable Development Goals," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(18), pages 1-3, September.

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