Governing the Energy Transition : Reality, Illusion or Necessity?.

The Energy Transition, the inevitable shift away from cheap, centralized, largely fossil-based energy systems, is one of the core challenges of our time. This book provides a coherent and novel insight into the nature of this challenge and possible strategies to accelerate and guide such transitions...

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Main Author: Verbong, Geert
Other Authors: Loorbach, Derk
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2012.
Series:Routledge studies in sustainability transitions.
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Summary:The Energy Transition, the inevitable shift away from cheap, centralized, largely fossil-based energy systems, is one of the core challenges of our time. This book provides a coherent and novel insight into the nature of this challenge and possible strategies to accelerate and guide such transitions. It brings together prominent European scholars and practitioners from the fields of energy transition research and governance to draw attention to the current complex dynamics in the energy domain, and offer elegant and provocative explanations for current crises and lock-ins. They identify multip.
Physical Description:1 online resource (386 pages)
ISBN:9780203126523
0203126521
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.