Publications by Susan Marie Mühlemeier

Transforming knowledge systems for life on Earth: Visions of future systems and how to get there

Formalised knowledge systems, including universities and research institutes, are important for contemporary societies. They are, however, also arguably failing humanity when their impact is measured against the level of progress being made in stimulating ...

ELSEVIER2020

A Concept for Sustainability Transition Assessment (STA): A Dynamic Systems Perspective Informed by Resilience Thinking

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Romano Tobias Wyss, Susan Marie Mühlemeier, Thorsten Schilling

Cambridge University Press2020

Resilience and agency in mature sustainability transitions. Theoretical conceptualisation and empirical analysis of actor- & system-level dynamics in sociotechnical energy systems

Susan Marie Mühlemeier

In Switzerland, Germany and Austria, as in many European countries, the transition of the energy sector towards more sustainability is a long-term transition process, unfolding since decades. It however only reached the regime level in recent years and the ...

EPFL2019

An Indicator-Based Approach for Analysing the Resilience of Transitions for Energy Regions. Part II: Empirical Application to the Case of Weiz-Gleisdorf, Austria

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Romano Tobias Wyss, Susan Marie Mühlemeier

In this paper, we apply an indicator-based approach to measure the resilience of energy regions in transition to a case study region in Austria. The indicator-based approach allows to determine the resilience of the transition of regional energy systems to ...

2018

“A particular species” urban utility companies in Germany and Switzerland

Susan Marie Mühlemeier

This article presents the characteristics of urban utility companies in Germany and Switzerland and examines their challenges and strategic actions in the context of energy transition. In so doing, it explores a particular actor type in a communal infrastr ...

2018

Grosse Stadtwerke - theoretische und empirische Exploration eines besonderen Akteurs in der Energiewende Deutschlands und der Schweiz

Susan Marie Mühlemeier

Grosse Stadtwerke sind in Deutschland und der Schweiz fester Bestandteil der Akteurslandschaft des Energiesektors. Durch die föderal-subsidiäre Organisation der Energiesektoren dieser beiden Länder kommen ihnen systemrelevante Aufgaben wie das Management v ...

2018

“It’s an Endurance Race” An Indicator-Based Resilience Analysis of the Energy Transition in the Allgäu Region, Bavaria

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Romano Tobias Wyss, Susan Marie Mühlemeier

The energy transition currently taking place in Germany is recognised as being one of the most ambitious socio-technical transitions at the present time. Scholars have so far mostly studied the resilience of the current or future state of the energy system ...

Oekom Verlag2017

Und Aktion! Konzeptualisierung der Rolle individuellen Akteurshandelns in sozio-technischen Transitionen am Beispiel der regionalen Energiewende im bayerischen Allg\xe4u', u'And Action! \u2013 Role of Individual Agency in Socio-Technical Transitions \u2013 the Example of a Regional Energy Transition in the Allgäu Region, Bavaria']

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Romano Tobias Wyss, Susan Marie Mühlemeier

Die deutsche Energiewende gilt als einer der herausforderndsten gesamtgesellschaftlichen Veränderungsprozesse unserer Zeit. Sie zieht einen grundlegenden politischen und ökonomischen Wandel in Deutschland und ganz Europa nach sich. Die fundamentalen Veränd ...

2017

An Indicator-Based Approach for Analyzing the Resilience of Transitions for Energy Regions. Part I: Theoretical and Conceptual Considerations

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Romano Tobias Wyss, Susan Marie Mühlemeier

The transition of our current energy system from a fossil-based system to a system based on renewables is likely to be one of the most complex and long-term societal transitions in history. The need for a fundamental system transformation raises the questi ...

MDPI2017