Skills development in sustainable energy transitions: A systematic map and critical review of the drivers and barriers

No abstract is available for this paper.

• Publication year

  2026

• Venue

  Energy Research & Social Science

• Publication date

  2026-04-01

• Fields of study

  Not labeled

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.erss.2026.104576
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar

• No claims are published for this paper.

• No concepts are published for this paper.

• Exploring the nexus of gender and energy transitions: A systematic literature review

  2025cited by this paper
• Workforce development in low-carbon energy transitions: The case of horizontal governance in Schleswig-Holstein (Germany)

  2025cited by this paper
• Initiating social tipping dynamics in energy transitions: A novel analytical approach for exploring feedback loops and intervention points

  2025cited by this paper
• The acceleration of low-carbon transitions: Insights, concepts, challenges, and new directions for research

  2025cited by this paper
• Is our skills system ready for a sustainability transition?

  2024cited by this paper
• From Learning Ecologies to a Social Ecosystem Model for Learning and Skills

  2024cited by this paper
• The Threefold Role of the University in Fostering the Energy Transition: The Case of Bologna and Its Cesena Campus

  2024cited by this paper
• Challenges in modelling and measuring sustainability competencies crucial to successful sustainability transitions

  2024cited by this paper
• Concept of circular economy in technical and vocational education: a systematic literature review

  2024cited by this paper
• Collective sustainability competences of universities as a nested institutional space

  2024cited by this paper
• Promoting sustainability through competencies? An explorative case study on higher education in Norway

  2024cited by this paper
• “Green skills" and the emergent property of “greening”

  2024cited by this paper
• Assessing local capacity for community appropriate sustainable energy transitions in northern and remote Indigenous communities

  2024cited by this paper
• The failure to decarbonize the global energy education system: Carbon lock-in and stranded skill sets

  2024cited by this paper
• Upskilling trades for a low carbon future: a case study of gasfitting and hydrogen

  2024cited by this paper
• An energy justice index for the energy transition in the global South

  2024cited by this paper
• Job creation in a low carbon transition to renewables and energy efficiency: a review of international evidence

  2024cited by this paper
• Translanguaging for more-than-English sustainability transitions

  2024cited by this paper
• Green Skills for Sustainability Transitions

  2024cited by this paper
• Skills for the just energy transition: Is skills research ‘on track’?

  2024cited by this paper
• Can Social Impact Assessments (SIAs) be a sustainable strategy to address the skills development gap and community sustainability challenges in Just Energy Transition (JET) policy decision-making? Evidence from the South African mining communities of Kriel and Carolina in Mpumalanga

  2023cited by this paper
• Education Empowers Residential Energy Transition: Causal Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Reform in China

  2023cited by this paper
• Just Transition Policies, Power Plant Workers and Green Entrepreneurs in Greece, Cyprus and Bulgaria: Can Education and Retraining Meet the Challenge?

  2023cited by this paper
• Retraining investment for Alberta’s oil and gas workers for green jobs in the solar industry

  2023cited by this paper
• Can community based solar energy initiatives deliver on women's empowerment in India? Evidence from rural Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh

  2023cited by this paper
• What does the public know about technological solutions for achieving carbon neutrality? Citizens' knowledge of energy transition and the role of media

  2023cited by this paper
• Challenges to the low carbon energy transition: A systematic literature review and research agenda

  2023cited by this paper
• Career progression and skills in Smart Local Energy Systems

  2023cited by this paper
• The development of green skills for the informal sector of Ghana: towards sustainable futures

  2023cited by this paper
• Reframing skills ecosystems for sustainable and just futures

  2023cited by this paper
• A socio-technical transition perspective on positive tipping points in climate change mitigation: Analysing seven interacting feedback loops in offshore wind and electric vehicles acceleration

  2023cited by this paper
• Just Transitions’ Meanings: A Systematic Review

  2023cited by this paper
• Local Capacity for Energy Transition in Northern and Indigenous Communities: Analysis of Gwich’in Communities in Northwest Territories, Canada

  2023cited by this paper
• Skilling the green hydrogen economy: A case study from Australia

  2023cited by this paper
• Learning systems and learning paths in sustainability transitions

  2023cited by this paper
• Workers as actors at the micro-level of sustainability transitions: A systematic literature review

  2023cited by this paper
• Upskilling plumber gasfitters for hydrogen: An empirical study using the Theory of Planned Behavior

  2023cited by this paper
• Just Transition: A whole-systems approach to decarbonisation

  2022cited by this paper
• Natural gas as a barrier to sustainability transitions? A systematic mapping of the risks and challenges

  2022cited by this paper
• A green skills framework for climate action, climate empowerment, and climate justice

  2022cited by this paper
• Going Green Post COVID-19: Employer Perspectives on Skills Needs

  2022cited by this paper
• Higher Education Interdisciplinarity: Addressing the Complexity of Sustainable Energies and the Green Economy

  2022cited by this paper
• Knowledge and skills required to set up and operate clean energy communities

  2022cited by this paper
• Systematic Review of Education Sustainable Development in Higher Education Institutions

  2022cited by this paper
• Employment and Competencies of Employees in the Energy Sector in Poland

  2022cited by this paper
• Can Adult Education Boost Sustainability Transitions? Some Evidence from Farmers and Teachers

  2022cited by this paper
• South Africa's energy transition – Unraveling its political economy

  2022cited by this paper
• Building a ‘Fair and Fast’ Energy Transition? Renewable Energy Employment, Skill Shortages and Social Licence in Regional Areas

  2022cited by this paper
• Skills deployment for a ‘just’ net zero energy transition

  2022cited by this paper
• Climate Change, Social Work, and the Transition Away from Fossil Fuels: A Scoping Review

  2022cited by this paper
• A theoretical framework to address education for sustainability for an earlier transition to a just, low carbon and circular economy

  2022cited by this paper
• The Influence of Higher Education on Student Learning and Agency for Sustainability Transition

  2022cited by this paper
• Energy transitions from the cradle to the grave: A meta-theoretical framework integrating responsible innovation, social practices, and energy justice

  2021cited by this paper
• Definition of the Future Skills Needs of Job Profiles in the Renewable Energy Sector

  2021cited by this paper
• Innovative human capital management of energy enterprises and the role of shaping the environmental behavior of consumers of green energy based on the work of smart grids

  2021cited by this paper
• Strengthening Gender Justice in a Just Transition: A Research Agenda Based on a Systematic Map of Gender in Coal Transitions

  2021cited by this paper
• Handling climate change education at universities: an overview

  2021cited by this paper
• Ready for new business models?: Human and social capital in the management of renewable energy cooperatives in Germany

  2021cited by this paper
• Towards a theory of critical energy literacy: the Youth Strike for Climate, renewable energy and beyond

  2021cited by this paper
• Climate policy accelerates structural changes in energy employment

  2021cited by this paper
• A new framework for environmental education about energy transition: investment and the energy regulatory and industrial complex

  2021cited by this paper
• Social Learning for Energy Transition—A Literature Review

  2021cited by this paper
• Just energy transitions to low carbon economies: A review of the concept and its effects on labour and income

  2020cited by this paper
• Learning about learning in sustainability transitions

  2020cited by this paper
• Opening up the black box of learning-by-doing in sustainability transitions

  2020cited by this paper
• Adapt or Perish: A New Approach for Industry Needs-Driven Master’s Level Low-Carbon Energy Engineering Education in the UK

  2020cited by this paper
• Local Energy Transition and Technical Knowledge in the Southern Cone: A Sociological Approach

  2020cited by this paper
• Actors, objectives, context: A framework of the political economy of energy and climate policy applied to India, Indonesia, and Vietnam

  2020cited by this paper
• Corporate and entrepreneurial contributions to sustainability transitions

  2020cited by this paper
• Mapping the Landscape and Structure of Research on Education for Sustainable Development: A Bibliometric Review

  2020cited by this paper
• Transforming vocational education and training for nearly zero-energy building

  2020cited by this paper
• Promoting Women’s Entrepreneurship in Distribution of Energy Technologies: Lessons from ENERGIA’s WEE Programme

  2020cited by this paper
• Graduate and undergraduate university programs in wind energy in the United States

  2019cited by this paper
• Energy justice in the transition to low carbon energy systems: Exploring key themes in interdisciplinary research

  2019cited by this paper
• Identifying effective climate change education strategies: a systematic review of the research

  2019cited by this paper
• Policy mixes for sustainability transitions: New approaches and insights through bridging innovation and policy studies

  2019cited by this paper
• Emerging smart community concept and microgrid technology - a study of lagging skill development in Pakistan

  2019cited by this paper
• Theory and practice of European co-operative education and training for the support of energy transition

  2019cited by this paper
• Environmental education in transition: A critical review of recent research on climate change and energy education

  2019cited by this paper
• Lock-ins and opportunities for sustainability transition

  2019cited by this paper
• An agenda for sustainability transitions research: State of the art and future directions

  2019cited by this paper
• The co-evolution of policy mixes and socio-technical systems: Towards a conceptual framework of policy mix feedback in sustainability transitions

  2019cited by this paper
• Multi-level governance and power in climate change policy networks

  2019cited by this paper
• Just transition: Integrating climate, energy and environmental justice

  2018cited by this paper
• The role of reporting standards in producing robust literature reviews

  2018cited by this paper
• Deep transitions: Emergence, acceleration, stabilization and directionality

  2018cited by this paper
• Online tools supporting the conduct and reporting of systematic reviews and systematic maps: a case study on CADIMA and review of existing tools

  2018cited by this paper
• Knowledge transfer in the emerging solar energy sector in Ghana

  2018cited by this paper
• ROSES RepOrting standards for Systematic Evidence Syntheses: pro forma, flow-diagram and descriptive summary of the plan and conduct of environmental systematic reviews and systematic maps

  2018cited by this paper
• Education and training gaps in the renewable energy sector

  2018cited by this paper
• The next phase of the energy transition and its implications for research and policy

  2018cited by this paper
• Disciplinary Perspectives on Skill

  2017cited by this paper
• Policy Integration and Multi-Level Governance: Dealing with the Vertical Dimension of Policy Mix Designs

  2017cited by this paper
• What kind of expertise is needed for low energy construction?

  2017cited by this paper
• Politicizing energy justice and energy system transitions: Fossil fuel divestment and a “just transition”

  2017cited by this paper
• Higher education in Central European countries – Critical factors for sustainability transition

  2017cited by this paper
• Training and integrating rural women into technology: a study of Renewable Energy Technology in Bangladesh

  2017cited by this paper
• Postgraduate geothermal energy education worldwide and the New Zealand experience

  2017cited by this paper
• Disruption and low-carbon system transformation: Progress and new challenges in socio-technical transitions research and the Multi-Level Perspective

  2017cited by this paper
• Critical challenges and capacity building needs for renewable energy deployment in Pacific Small Island Developing States (Pacific SIDS)

  2017cited by this paper

• No citing papers are available for this paper.