Energy as a Sociotechnical Problem offers an innovative approach to equip interdisciplinary research on sociotechnical transitions with coherence and focus. The book emphasizes sociotechnical problems in three analytical dimensions: - In the control dimension, contributing authors examine how control can be maintained despite increasing complexity and uncertainty, e.g., in power grid operations or on energy markets; - In the change dimension, the authors explore if and how change is possible despite the need for stable orientation, e.g., regarding discourses, real-world labs and learning; - Finally, in the action dimension, the authors analyze how the ability to act on a permanent basis is sustained despite opaqueness and ignorance, exemplified by the work on trust, capabilities or individual motives. Drawing on contributions from engineering, economics, philosophy, political science, psychology and sociology, the book assembles a range of classic and current themes including innovation, resilience, institutional economics, design or education. Energy as a Sociotechnical Problem presents the ongoing transformation of the energy complex as a multidimensional process, in which the analytical dimensions interact with each other in shaping the energy future. As such, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of energy transitions, energy science and environmental social science more generally, as well as to practitioners working within the field of energy policy.

Energy as a Sociotechnical Problem offers an innovative approach to equip interdisciplinary research on sociotechnical transitions with coherence and focus. The book emphasizes sociotechnical problems in three analytical dimensions: - In the control dimension, contributing authors examine how control can be maintained despite increasing complexity and uncertainty, e.g., in power grid operations or on energy markets; - In the change dimension, the authors explore if and how change is possible despite the need for stable orientation, e.g., regarding discourses, real-world labs and learning; - Finally, in the action dimension, the authors analyze how the ability to act on a permanent basis is sustained despite opaqueness and ignorance, exemplified by the work on trust, capabilities or individual motives. Drawing on contributions from engineering, economics, philosophy, political science, psychology and sociology, the book assembles a range of classic and current themes including innovation, resilience, institutional economics, design or education. Energy as a Sociotechnical Problem presents the ongoing transformation of the energy complex as a multidimensional process, in which the analytical dimensions interact with each other in shaping the energy future. As such, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of energy transitions, energy science and environmental social science more generally, as well as to practitioners working within the field of energy policy.

In most countries, only very limited time resources are available for statistics education within mathematics education. Thus, statistics education research needs to develop teaching-learning arrangements that are compact and applicable to classrooms. Christian Buscher designs and investigates a compact teaching-learning arrangement which aims at mathematical and reflective knowledge about statistics. Central results include the specification of the learning content of statistical measures, an empirical reconstruction of students' learning processes towards statistical measures, and the identification of students' situated reflections about mathematics within their learning processes.

Die Frage, weshalb sich die Gesellschaft nur langsam auf eine oekologische Krise und damit auf eine moegliche Selbstgefahrdung einstellt, ist aktueller denn je. Vor 25 Jahren hat Niklas Luhmann die Studie "OEkologische Kommunikation" vorgelegt. Es war der systematische Versuch, die Moeglichkeiten der modernen Gesellschaft, auf oekologische Probleme zu reagieren, mit Hilfe einer "Theorie der Gesellschaft" zu bestimmen. Aus der Pramisse, dass die Gesellschaft einem Primat funktionaler Differenzierung unterliegt, folgt Luhmanns Beobachtung: Funktionssysteme koennen nur auf der Ebene ihrer Programme unter Einbeziehung ihres je spezifischen Codes Resonanz auf oekologische Probleme erzeugen. Die Autorinnen und Autoren dieses Bandes nehmen den 25. Jahrestag der "OEkologischen Kommunikation" zum Anlass, Niklas Luhmanns Thesen mit Blick auf die aktuellen Entwicklungen auf ihre Plausibilitat hin zu diskutieren. Die Beitrage beleuchten unter anderem die Resonanz unterschiedlicher Funktionssysteme wie der Wirtschaft, des Rechts, der Wissenschaft, Politik und Erziehung auf oekologische Probleme.

Christian Buscher analysiert den Umgang mit einem technischen Risiko aus soziologischer Perspektive. Auf der Basis der systemtheoretischen Risiko- und Organisationstheorie Niklas Luhmanns prasentiert er unterschiedliche Situationsbeschreibungen betroffener Organisationen und zeigt auf, warum sie die Problematik sehr unterschiedlich bearbeiteten und wie sie mit den Unsicherheiten hinsichtlich einer "angemessenen" Herangehensweise umgingen.