Narratives of Low-Carbon Transitions : : understanding risks and uncertainties / / Edited by Susanne Hanger-Kopp, Jenny Lieu, Alexandros Nikas.

• Superior document: Routledge studies in energy transitions
• TeilnehmendeR: Hanger-Kopp, Susanne,; Nikas, Alexandros,; Lieu, Jenny,
• Place / Publishing House: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : : Taylor & Francis,, 2019.; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge studies in energy transitions.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (276 pages).

"The Open Access version of this book, available at https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429458781, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license." This book examines the uncertainties underlying various strategies for a low-carbon future. Most prominently, such strategies relate to transitions in the energy sector, on both the supply and the demand side. At the same time they interact with other sectors, such as industrial production, transport, and building, and ultimately require new behaviour patterns at household and individual levels. Currently, much research is available on the effectiveness of these strategies but, in order to successfully implement comprehensive transition pathways, it is crucial not only to understand the benefits but also the risks. Filling this gap, this volume provides an interdisciplinary, conceptual framework to assess risks and uncertainties associated with low-carbon policies and applies this consistently across 11 country cases from around the world, illustrating alternative transition pathways in various contexts. The cases are presented as narratives, drawing on stakeholder-drivenresearch efforts. They showcase diverse empirical evidence reflecting the complex challenges to and potential negative consequences of such pathways. Together, they enable the reader to draw valuable lessons on the risks and uncertainties associated with choosing the envisaged transition pathways, as well as ways to manage the implementation of these pathways and ultimately enable sustainable and lasting social and environmental effects. This book will be of great interest to students, scholars, and practitioners of environmental and energy policy, low-carbon transitions, renewable energy technologies, climate change action, and sustainability in general.

Table of Contents

List of figures -- List of tables -- Notes on contributors -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Part I: Setting the Introduction / Susanne Hanger-Kopp, Jenny Lieu, and Alexandros Nikas -- 2. Framing risks and uncertainties associated with low-carbon pathways / Susanne Hanger-Kopp, Alexandros Nikas, Jenny Lieu; -- Part II: Pathways for incumbent large-scale technology systems -- 3. Austria: co-designing a low-carbon transition pathway focusing on energy supply for the iron and steel sector / Brigitte Wolkinger, Jakob Mayer, Andreas Tuerk, Gabriel Bachner, and Karl Steininger -- 4. Canada: finding common ground the need for plural voices in lower-carbon futures of the Alberta oil sands / Luis D. Virla, Jenny Lieu, and Cecilia Fitzpatrick -- 5. United Kingdom: pathways towards a low-carbon electricity system nuclear expansion versus nuclear phase out / Rocío Alvarez-Tinoco, Michele Stua, and Gordon MacKerron; -- Part III: Pathways towards renewable electricity systems -- 6. Chile: promoting renewable energy and the risk of energy poverty in Chile / Luis E. Gonzales Carrasco and Rodrigo Cerda -- 7. The Netherlands: expanding solar PV risk and uncertainties associated with small- and large-scale options / Krisztina de Bruyn-Szendrei, Wytze van der Gaast, and Eise Spijker -- 8. Spain: on a rollercoaster of regulatory change risks and uncertainties associated with a renewable energy transition / Alevgul H. Sorman, Cristina Pizarro-Irizar, Xaquín García-Muros, Mikel González-Eguino, and Iñaki Arto 9. Switzerland: risks associated with implementing a national energy strategy / Oscar van Vliet -- Part IV: Pathways towards energy-efficient building sectors -- 10. China: risks and uncertainties in low-carbon pathways for the urban building sector / Lei Song, Jenny Lieu, and Ying Chen -- 11. Greece: from near-term actions to long-term pathways - risks and uncertainties associated with the national energy efficiency framework / Alexandros Nikas, Nikolaos Gkonis, Aikaterini Forouli, Eleftherios Siskos, Apostolos Arsenopoulos, Aikaterini Papapostolou, Eleni Kanellou, Charikleia Karakosta, and Haris Doukas -- Part V: Pathways focusing on renewable energy technologies at household and community levels: -- 12. Indonesia: risks and uncertainties associated with biogas for cooking and electricity / Mariana Silaen, Yudiandra Yuwono, Richard Taylor, Tahia Devisscher, Syamsidar Thamrin, Cynthia Ismail, and Takeshi Takama -- 13. Kenya: risks and uncertainties around low-carbon energy pathways / Oliver W. Johnson, Hannah Wanjiru, Mbeo Ogeya, and Francis X. Johnson -- Part VI: Synthesis. -- 14. Transition pathways, risks, and uncertainties / Jenny Lieu, Susanne Hanger-Kopp, Wytze van der Gaast, Richard Taylor and Ed Dearnley; Afterword: key insights on averarching risks across transition pathways -- Index.