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Investigação em energias renováveis em Portugal : instituições, práticas e redes
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As energias renováveis têm vindo a assumir um destaque sociopolítico particular, enquanto prioridade estratégica na redução do consumo de combustíveis fósseis, com o duplo objetivo de combate às alterações climáticas e de diminuir a dependência energética face ao exterior. A relevância socioeconómica das tecnologias de energia levou a que ao longo da última década as energias renováveis se tenham tornado um tópico de investigação de relevo em certas áreas das ciências sociais, em particular nos estudos de ciência e tecnologia e sociologia do ambiente. Esta literatura sobre a transição energética tem analisado sobretudo os instrumentos políticos de promoção da implementação da tecnologia e os seus efeitos na transformação dos sistemas de energia. Contudo, a produção sobre o enquadramento da investigação e da política científica na transição energética é bastante limitada, apesar do destaque que as rúbricas de energia adquiriram nos mecanismos europeus de financiamento de ciência. Este trabalho tem por objetivo caracterizar a organização da investigação científica e desenvolvimento tecnológico em energias renováveis em Portugal. Pretende-se compreender os processos de emergência e consolidação esta área científica, os modelos de organização da investigação e os processos de ligação entre ciência e sociedade numa área de produção de conhecimento que está enquadrada num programa central de transformação das economias contemporâneas - o desenvolvimento sustentável com base em fontes de energia inesgotáveis, menos poluentes e endógenas. A investigação recorre a métodos extensivos e intensivos de forma a construir uma imagem abrangente do objeto – análise de redes sociais com base em dados bibliométricos, análise documental, entrevistas com investigadores e um estudo de caso sobre a Lógica, uma empresa de I&D em energias renováveis criada pela Município de Moura.
Renewable energies have been given a particular socio-political focus as a strategic priority in reducing fossil fuel consumption, with the dual objective of combating climate prospects and reducing energy dependence on the outside world. The socio-economic relevance of energy technologies has led renewable energies to become a prominent research topic in certain areas of the social sciences, particularly in science and technology studies and sociology of the environment. This literature on the energy transition has analysed above all the policy instruments to promote the implementation of technology and its effects on the transformation of the energy systems. However, production on the role of scientific research in the energy transition is rather limited, despite the emphasis that has been given to energy research on European science funding schemes. This work aims to characterize the organization of scientific research and technological development in renewable energies in Portugal. The processes of organization and administration and processes of organization of research and processes of connection between science and society in the area of knowledge production, which is part of a central program of transformation of contemporary economies - sustainable development based on less polluting and endogenous of sources of energy. The research uses extensive and intensive methods in order to construct a comprehensive image of the object - social network analysis based on bibliometric data, document analysis, interviews with researchers and a case study on Lógica, a renewable energy R&D firm created by the municipality of Moura.
Renewable energies have been given a particular socio-political focus as a strategic priority in reducing fossil fuel consumption, with the dual objective of combating climate prospects and reducing energy dependence on the outside world. The socio-economic relevance of energy technologies has led renewable energies to become a prominent research topic in certain areas of the social sciences, particularly in science and technology studies and sociology of the environment. This literature on the energy transition has analysed above all the policy instruments to promote the implementation of technology and its effects on the transformation of the energy systems. However, production on the role of scientific research in the energy transition is rather limited, despite the emphasis that has been given to energy research on European science funding schemes. This work aims to characterize the organization of scientific research and technological development in renewable energies in Portugal. The processes of organization and administration and processes of organization of research and processes of connection between science and society in the area of knowledge production, which is part of a central program of transformation of contemporary economies - sustainable development based on less polluting and endogenous of sources of energy. The research uses extensive and intensive methods in order to construct a comprehensive image of the object - social network analysis based on bibliometric data, document analysis, interviews with researchers and a case study on Lógica, a renewable energy R&D firm created by the municipality of Moura.
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Tese de doutoramento, Sociologia (Sociologia da Ciência e Tecnologia), Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, 2018
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Teses de doutoramento - 2018