This Handbook is the first volume to comprehensively analyse and problem-solve how to manage the decline of fossil fuels as the world tackles climate change and shifts towards a low-carbon energy transition. The overall findings are straight-forward and unsurprising: although fossil fuels have powered the industrialisation of many nations and improved the lives of hundreds of millions of people, another century dominated by fossil fuels would be disastrous. Fossil fuels and associated greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced to a level that avoids rising temperatures and rising risks in support of a just and sustainable energy transition.
Divided into four sections and 25 contributions from global leading experts, the chapters span a wide range of energy technologies and sources including fossil fuels, carbon mitigation options, renewables, low carbon energy, energy storage, electric vehicles and energy sectors (electricity, heat and transport). They cover varied legal jurisdictions and multiple governance approaches encompassing multi- and inter-disciplinary technological, environmental, social, economic, political, legal and policy perspectives with timely case studies from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, South America and the Pacific.
Providing an insightful contribution to the literature and a much-needed synthesis of the field as a whole, this book will have great appeal to decision makers, practitioners, students and scholars in the field of energy transition studies seeking a comprehensive understanding of the opportunities and challenges in managing the decline of fossil fuels.
Author(s): Geoffrey Wood, Keith Baker
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 671
Tags: Renewable And Green Energy, Fossil Fuel, Energy Transitions
Front Matter ....Pages i-li
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
Fossil Fuels in a Carbon-Constrained World (Geoffrey Wood)....Pages 3-23
Carbon Capture and Renewables: Strategic Conflicts or Tactical Complementarities (David Elliott)....Pages 25-55
The Long Goodbye to the Nuclear Monument (Paul Dorfman)....Pages 57-84
Capacity Remuneration Mechanisms: Regulatory Tools for Sustaining Thermal Power Plants and the EU Energy Transition (Taner Şahin)....Pages 85-105
Front Matter ....Pages 107-107
China’s Efforts to Constrain its Fossil Fuel Consumption (Philip Andrews-Speed)....Pages 109-137
Managing the Decline of Fossil Fuels in a Fossil Fuel Intensive Economy: The Case of The Netherlands (Sem Oxenaar, Rick Bosman)....Pages 139-165
Fossil Fuels and Transitions: The UK Maximising Economic Recovery Strategy and Low-Carbon Energy Transitions (Gokce Mete, Wairimu Karanja, Nduta Njenga)....Pages 167-194
Enacted Inertia: Australian Fossil Fuel Incumbents’ Strategies to Undermine Challengers (Marc Hudson)....Pages 195-222
Buffeted or Energized? India’s Dynamic Energy Transition (Daniel Gilbert, Pooja Chatterjee)....Pages 223-260
Transitioning to a Low Carbon Economy: Is Africa Ready to Bid Farewell to Fossil Fuels? (Victoria R. Nalule)....Pages 261-286
On the New Paradigm of International Energy Development: Risks and Challenges for Russia and the World on the Way to the Low-Carbon Future (Andrey Konoplyanik)....Pages 287-339
The Role of German Regime Actors and Trade Unions in the Energy Transition: Agency and Power (Stefan Bößner)....Pages 341-369
Fossil Fuel Decline and the Rural Economy: The Case of Scotland (Bill Slee)....Pages 371-401
Front Matter ....Pages 403-403
The Long Hello: Energy Governance, Public Participation, and ‘Fracking’ (John Whitton, Ioan Charnley-Parry)....Pages 405-425
Ban or Regulate? A Critical Juncture in New York’s Fossil Fuel Regulation (Ida Dokk Smith)....Pages 427-452
Regulation and Market Reform: The Essential Foundations for a Renewable Future (Iain Wright)....Pages 453-482
Prolonging Fossil Fuels or Hastening the Low-Carbon Transition? The Diffusion of Biofuel Development: Motivations and Strategies (Jale Tosun, Trevelyan S. Wing)....Pages 483-504
Re-making the Future: Transition Movements and Dismantling the Environment-Economy Dichotomy (Cassandra Star)....Pages 505-527
Is Energy Justice in the Fossil Fuel Industry a Paradox? (Tedd Moya Mose, Mohammad Hazrati)....Pages 529-549
Fossil Fuel Welfare Versus the Climate (Alex Lenferna)....Pages 551-567
Perspectives on an Energy System After a Decline in Fossil Fuel Use: Welcome to the Store-Age (Andrew Fredrick Crossland)....Pages 569-587
Decarbonising Heat in Scotland: The Perfect Storm Revisited (Keith Baker)....Pages 589-607
Front Matter ....Pages 609-609
Managing the Decline of Fossil Fuels: A Long Goodbye? (Geoffrey Wood)....Pages 611-615
Our Time Is Up (Keith Baker, Geoffrey Wood)....Pages 617-620
Back Matter ....Pages 621-647
