All Stories

  1. From sustainable to smart: Re-branding or re-assembling urban energy infrastructure?

    Article • Geoforum, March 2019, Elsevier

    Harald Rohracher

  2. Households as infrastructure junctions in urban sustainability transitions: The case of hot water metering

    Article • Urban Studies, February 2019, SAGE Publications

    Harald Rohracher

  3. Pathways to electricity for all: What makes village-scale solar power successful?

    Article • Energy Research & Social Science, October 2018, Elsevier

    Harald Rohracher

  4. Analyzing the Socio-Technical Transformation of Energy Systems

    Article • July 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Harald Rohracher

  5. Spatial transfer of innovations: South-South learning on village-scale solar power supply between India and Kenya

    Article • Energy Policy, March 2018, Elsevier

    Harald Rohracher

  6. Challenges Ahead: Understanding, Assessing, Anticipating and Governing Foreseeable Societal Tensions to Support Accelerated Low-Carbon Transitions in Europe

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Harald Rohracher

  7. Incumbent Actors as Niche Agents: The German Car Industry and the Taming of the “Stuttgart E-Mobility Region”

    Article • Sustainability, March 2016, MDPI AG

    Harald Rohracher

  8. Conflicting strategies towards sustainable heating at an urban junction of heat infrastructure and building standards

    Article • Energy Policy, March 2015, Elsevier

    Harald Rohracher

  9. Science and Technology Studies, History of

    Article • January 2015, Elsevier

    Harald Rohracher

  10. Village-level solar power in Africa: Accelerating access to electricity services through a socio-technical design in Kenya

    Article • Energy Research & Social Science, January 2015, Elsevier

    Harald Rohracher

  11. Of solar collectors, wind power, and car sharing: Comparing and understanding successful cases of grassroots innovations

    Article • Global Environmental Change, October 2013, Elsevier

    Harald Rohracher

  12. Informal institutions matter: Professional culture and the development of biogas technology

    Article • Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, September 2013, Elsevier

    Harald Rohracher

  13. The Interplay of Urban Energy Policy and Socio-technical Transitions: The Eco-cities of Graz and Freiburg in Retrospect

    Article • Urban Studies, August 2013, SAGE Publications

    Harald Rohracher

  14. Legitimizing research, technology and innovation policies for transformative change

    Article • Research Policy, July 2012, Elsevier

    Dr K. Matthias Weber, Harald Rohracher

  15. Local Demonstrations for Global Transitions—Dynamics across Governance Levels Fostering Socio-Technical Regime Change Towards Sustainability

    Article • European Planning Studies, March 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Philipp Späth, Harald Rohracher

  16. Towards a Sustainable Spatial Organization of the Energy System: Backcasting Experiences from Austria

    Article • Sustainability, February 2012, MDPI AG

    Harald Rohracher

  17. Sociotechnical scenarios for the Austrian energy system

    Article • EPJ Web of Conferences, January 2012, EDP Sciences

    Harald Rohracher

  18. The Solar Transitions research on solar mini-grids in India: Learning from local cases of innovative socio-technical systems

    Article • Energy for Sustainable Development, September 2011, Elsevier

    Harald Rohracher

  19. Einleitung

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Harald Rohracher

  20. Genomforschung – Politik – Gesellschaft

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Harald Rohracher

  21. Negotiating the local embedding of socio-technical experiments: a case study in fuel cell technology

    Article • Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, August 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Harald Rohracher

  22. Transforming the energy system: the role of institutions, interests and ideas

    Article • Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, August 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Harald Rohracher

  23. ‘Energy regions’: The transformative power of regional discourses on socio-technical futures

    Article • Research Policy, May 2010, Elsevier

    Harald Rohracher

  24. Biofuels and their publics: the need for differentiated analyses and strategies

    Article • Biofuels, January 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Harald Rohracher

  25. Intermediaries and the Governance of Choice: The Case of Green Electricity Labelling

    Article • Environment and Planning A Economy and Space, August 2009, SAGE Publications

    Harald Rohracher

  26. Energy systems in transition: contributions from social sciences

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Technology and Management, January 2008, Inderscience Publishers

    Harald Rohracher

  27. Sustainability as a matter of social context: information technologies and the environment

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Technology and Management, January 2006, Inderscience Publishers

    Harald Rohracher

  28. User-led innovations and participation processes: lessons from sustainable energy technologies

    Article • Energy Policy, January 2006, Elsevier

    Harald Rohracher

  29. The Role of Users in the Social Shaping of Environmental Technologies

    Article • Innovation The European Journal of Social Science Research, June 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Harald Rohracher

  30. A Sociotechnical Mapping of Domestic Biomass Heating Systems in Austria

    Article • Bulletin of Science Technology & Society, December 2002, SAGE Publications

    Harald Rohracher

  31. Introduction: Technology Studies and Sustainable Development

    Article • Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, March 2001, Taylor & Francis

    Harald Rohracher

  32. Managing the Technological Transition to Sustainable Construction of Buildings: A Socio-Technical Perspective

    Article • Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, March 2001, Taylor & Francis

    Harald Rohracher

  33. Technikgestaltung durch Intervention in Akteursnetzwerke

    Article • January 1997, Springer Science + Business Media

    Harald Rohracher

  34. System innovations in innovation systems

    Article • GSE Research Limited

    Dr K. Matthias Weber, Harald Rohracher