Overview
- Synthesizes research into the low-carbon energy transition
- Focusses attention on the need to manage the decline of fossil fuels
- Discusses the best options and policies for managing fossil fuels and the energy transition
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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.
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Keywords
- fossil fuels
- renewables
- energy transition
- low carbon energy
- decline of fossil fuels
- carbon capture and storage
- the reality of climate change
- Optimal carbon Reduction
- Long Goodbye
- nuclear energy
- European Electricity Markets
- China's energy policy
- UK MER Strategy
- decarbonisation in Australia
- India’s Energy Transition
- Low Carbon Economy
- Energiewende
- ‘Fracking’
- Sustainable Biofuels
- Energy Justice
Table of contents (24 chapters)
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Introduction
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Managing the Decline of Fossil Fuels
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Keith Baker is a researcher in Fuel Poverty and Energy Policy at the Built Environment Asset Management Centre, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK, Co-founder of the Energy Poverty Research initiative, and an active member of the Scottish ‘think and do’ tank, Common Weal.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Managing Fossil Fuels and Energy Transitions
Editors: Geoffrey Wood, Keith Baker
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28076-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Energy, Energy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28075-8Published: 22 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28078-9Published: 22 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-28076-5Published: 12 November 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: LI, 647
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 39 illustrations in colour
Topics: Renewable and Green Energy, Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Environmental Policy, Environmental Geography