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Author:   Sören Becker ,  Benno Fladvad
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
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9783032114969

ISBN 10:   3032114969
Pages:   246
Publication Date:   13 May 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction: Towards Geographies of Sociotechnical Imaginaries.- Chapter 2: Competing sociotechnical and spatial imaginaries in the national controversy over wind energy deployment in France.- Chapter 3: Beyond infrastructural populism: Rural energy infrastructures as emancipatory imaginaries of the rural.- Chapter 4: The EU’s green energy transition: contested imaginaries of fossil fuel futures.- Chapter 5: Envisioning the future of water in the UK: Exploring digital water, its imaginaries and spatial implications.- Chapter 6: Towards inclusionary future imaginaries: Extended reality technologies (XR) for marginalized groups.- Chapter 7: Tinkering with the planet: The contested imaginaries of a digital twin earth.- Chapter 8: Geoengineering in Germany and South Africa: Sociotechnical imaginaries between normalization and emancipative catastrophism.- Chapter 9: Greening earth through outer space: promises and contestations.

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Benno Fladvad is Assistant Professor of Natural Science Peace Research with a focus on Climate and Security at the University of Hamburg, Germany. His research centres on climate security in Arctic contexts, nuclear justice, and energy transitions. Previously, he received his doctorate from the University of Kiel, Germany, and held a postdoctoral position at Hamburg University. Sören Becker is Assistant Professor of Human Geographies of Sustainable Transformation at Marburg University, Germany. He specialises on the transformation of energy systems, climate adaptation and the underlying spatial development strategies. After his doctorate from the University of Hamburg, he held postdoctoral positions at Humboldt University Berlin and the University of Bonn, Germany.

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