Junqueira, Luis2021-01-272021-01-272021Junqueira, L. (2021). Science-Society Relations in a Context of Technological Change: How Scientists Working on Renewable Energy Technologies Perceive Their Role in the Energy Transition. In Ana Delicado, Fabienne Crettaz Von Roten, Katarina Prpić H285-(Eds.), Communicating Science and Technology in Society: Issues of Public Accountability and Engagement, pp. 79-94. Cham: Springerhttp://hdl.handle.net/10451/45957Renewable energies development has become a concern in European policy due to the need to combat climate change, to reduce energy dependency, and to address the issue of depletion of fossil fuels. Transitioning to a post-carbon society is a highly complex process due to the way energy and its supply permeate all of human activity, from the privacy of domestic everyday life to shared practices in the workplace, and including features as central to contemporary life as mobility, security, and communication. In this sense, the promotion of the energy transition is necessarily based on a pluralistic intervention that includes both developing new technological solutions and fostering profound changes in the organization of economic activity and socio-cultural practices.engbook part10.1007/978-3-030-52885-0