C. Ortiz-Garcia

University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez | UPRM · Departamento de Ciencias Sociales

Puerto Rico’s fossil fuel-dependent electricity system was crippled by an unprecedented socio-technical landscape shock: the passage of its worst hurricane. In this paper, an overview of post-Hurricane María regime-niche dynamics and developments in the Puerto Rican energy transition is provided to assess the prospect of a window of opportunity ope...

Transitioning to an infrastructure that integrates a more substantial portion of renewable energy sources into the larger energy portfolio is not effortless or without sacrifice; it has economic, technical as well as social challenges related to the decisions, choices and consequences in trying to establish new energy systems. Those decisions, choi...

The World's dependence on fossil fuels and the need to move to more beneficial energy alternatives pose daunting challenges to humanity. Historically, economic and political rationality has driven the exploration, development and management of natural resources in the search for stable energy supplies. The insistence on continuing the unsustainable...

Many of the problems the World faces are managed from a mostly technical or economical perspective, even though problems also have social and environmental dimensions and could be better managed with a more integrative, global perspective. A common trait of these global issues is their interdisciplinary nature, which makes them complex problems dif...