A Unified Socio-Technical Design Framework for Equitable Energy Transition in Resource-Dependent Regions 2026

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🔬研究者:This paper provides a conceptual foundation for integrating social and technical design in energy transitions, useful for researchers designing socio-technical systems.

🏢実務担当者:Energy project developers can use this framework to incorporate social feasibility assessments upfront, potentially reducing project failure rates.

🏛政策担当者:Policymakers in resource-dependent regions can use this framework to design transition policies that address local social conditions while maintaining technical rigor.

This paper develops a conceptual framework for unified socio-technical design for energy transition that treats engineering innovation and socio-technical analysis as a single integrated design problem rather than as separate concerns addressed in sequence. The framework is motivated by a persistent pattern in which technically sound interventions falter in the field because the social and institutional conditions that govern their durability are neither measured nor designed for. In response, this paper articulates a model in which social variables, centrally a general method making the social dimension as tractable and optimizable as the engineering dimension, are rendered explicit and brought into the design problem on the same footing as technical parameters. The contribution is conceptual: this paper sets out the foundations of the framework, specifies its components and the relationships among them, illustrates its reasoning, and derives design and policy implications, with the aim of supporting energy systems that are simultaneously technically efficient, economically accessible, socially responsive, and adaptable to developing and resource-dependent regions

• openalex https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20670236first seen 2026-07-02 05:15:24 · last seen 2026-07-02 05:16:56