Valentine, S: Empowering the Great Energy Transition

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-231-18596-7
Verlag: Columbia Univers. Press

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

At a time when climate-change deniers hold the reins of power in the United States, what options are available to cities, companies, and consumers around the world who seek a cleaner future? In this book, Scott Victor Valentine, Marilyn A. Brown, and Benjamin K. Sovacool explore the many developments that give reason for optimism. They provide an expert analysis of the achievable steps that citizens, organizational leaders, and policy makers can take to put their commitments to sustainability into practice.

Empowering the Great Energy Transition demonstrates that a transition away from carbon-intensive energy sources is inevitable—if we can overcome the forces supporting incumbent technologies. Valentine, Brown, and Sovacool offer ways to expedite the transition, showing that low-carbon renewable-energy technologies have advanced and solutions for improving energy efficiency are becoming cost-competitive. However, new policies and business models are needed to surmount the hurdles between the current consumption model and cleaner energy. The book emphasizes the need to center energy around climate justice, with special consideration of the effects on public resources and vulnerable groups. Empowering the Great Energy Transition shows that with just a few adjustments, we can set humanity on a course that supports entrepreneurs and communities in mitigating the environmental harm caused by technologies whose time has come and gone.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Valentine, Scott

Sovacool, Benjamin

Brown, Marilyn

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Umweltökonomie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltmanagement, Umweltökonomie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Industrie- und Technologiepolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Kultur-, Wissenschafts- & Technologiepolitik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll

Über Autor(innen)

Sovacool, Benjamin
Benjamin Sovacool is a Professor of Energy Policy at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the School of Business, Management, and Economics, at the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom, where he is also the Director of the Center on Innovation and Energy Demand. He is the author of The Political Economy of Climate Change Adaptation (Palgrave, 2015), Energy Poverty (Oxford University Press, 2015), Global Energy Justice (Cambridge, 2014), The National Politics of Nuclear Power (Routledge, 2012 - co-authored with Scott Valentine), and Climate Change and Global Energy Security (MIT Press, 2011).

Valentine, Scott
Scott Valentine is an Associate Professor of Environmental Policy at Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. He previously served as founding Associate Director of the International Masters of Public Policy Program at the Graduate School of Public Policy,
University of Tokyo. Valentine's recent publications include Wind Power Politics and Policy (Oxford University Press, 2014), and The National Politics of Nuclear Power (Routledge, 2012 - co-authored with Benjamin Sovacool).

Brown, Marilyn
Marilyn Brown is a Professor in the School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech. Previously, she held an
appointment at the U.S Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and is serving her second term as a Presidential appointee to the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority and on the DOE's Electricity Advisory Committee. She is the author of Green Savings: How Policies and Markets Drive Energy Efficiency (Praeger, 2015), and Climate Change and Global Energy Security (MIT Press, 2011).

Scott Victor Valentine is professor and associate dean of sustainability and urban planning at RMIT University. His books include Wind Power Politics and Policies (2014) and, also with Brown and Sovacool, Fact and Fiction in Global Energy Policy: Fifteen Contentious Questions (2016).

Marilyn A. Brown is a Regents’ and Brook Byers Professor in the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she directs the Climate and Energy Policy Lab. A former utility regulator, she is a corecipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for the IPCC Report on Mitigation of Climate Change.

Benjamin K. Sovacool is professor of energy policy at the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex, where he serves as director of the Sussex Energy Group and of the Center on Innovation and Energy Demand. His publications include Global Energy Justice: Problems, Principles, and Practices (2014).