ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The active involvement of civil society groups may well help to speed up and intensify the transition towards renewable energy use. It also motivate civil society opponents of decentralized renewable energy projects to redouble their efforts to prevent the construction of regional wind farms, local geothermal power plants, large solar power plants, and similar energy facilities. Moreover, transition theory can also provide a helpful framework for studying current processes of sociotechnical change and for formulating plausible assumptions about possible outcomes. In his discussion of green nanotechnology, Colin Milburn has argued that successful cooperation between environmental policy makers and proponents of green nanopolitics may best be understood in terms of practicing science fiction in the real world. The age of renewable resources is very likely to still include energy from human and animal muscles and from plants and crops.
