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Energy Awareness and Education: Needs and Challenges of Developing Low-Carbon Societies

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World’s growing energy demands have exacerbated the problem of rising carbon footprints around the globe. There has been a growing consensus that carbon emission can be contained and treated through socio-technical transitions. However, the prime challenge which is faced, at large, is to frame a vision beyond the approach of simply being satiated with containing the carbon levels and role reversals. Educating and making people aware about benefits of post-carbon societies both at the individual as well as global level in terms of wealth and job creations with an added accrual achieving sustainability can help to build integrated techno-societal low-carbon transition. Engaging the societies in the restructuring of energy can be combed out by rejuvenation of the prevalent societal heuristics. Education and awareness have an undoubted pivotal role in inducing behavioral changes, within the various level of stakeholders, in the society. To develop targeted energy-literate and empathized community, the idea should be engraved in designs which are focused upon proliferating awareness and also converting that awareness into societal practice. Conceptual schemata of societal entities can be trained and made energy transition-ready state by addressing and initiating an interaction within societies.

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Mishra, S. (2018). Energy Awareness and Education: Needs and Challenges of Developing Low-Carbon Societies. In: Sharma, A., Shukla, A., Aye, L. (eds) Low Carbon Energy Supply. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7326-7_20

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