Energy for the future : a new agenda /
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| Imprint: | Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. |
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| Description: | xxii, 298 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Energy, climate, and the environment series |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7631484 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Figures
- List of Tables and Boxes
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Series Editor's Preface
- Part I. The Energy Policy Agenda
- 1. Introduction: Climate Policy is Energy Policy
- 1.1. Energy policy in context
- 1.2. Energy security and energy 'shocks'
- 1.3. Climate change in a global perspective
- 1.4. Energy for the future: An overview of the new agenda
- 2. International Regimes for Energy: Finding the Right Level for Policy
- 2.1. Governing energy at the global level
- 2.2. Regional governance: A better fit?
- 2.3. Making energy and climate policy: A multilevel challenge
- 3. Energy Issues: Framing and Policy Change
- 3.1. A discourse perspective
- 3.2. Energy policy goals, positions and debates
- 3.3. Reframing energy policy?
- 4. Energy Governance: The Challenges of Sustainability
- 4.1. Today's problems, yesterday's governance
- 4.2. Inherited energy systems, sustainable transformations
- 4.3. Generic challenges for sustainable energy governance
- 4.4. Empowering energy policy
- 5. Lessons from the UK on Urgency and Legitimacy in Energy Policymaking
- 5.1. Energy policy in the UK, 1945-2000
- 5.2. The new energy debate after 2000
- 5.3. Reconciling urgency and legitimacy
- 6. Lock-In
- 6.1. An evolutionary perspective: Evidence and theory
- 6.2. 'Free' market ideology and practice as a barrier to transitions
- 6.3. Competition is not everything
- Part II. Towards a New Agenda
- 7. Deliberative Socio-Technical Transitions
- 7.1. Technocracy in energy policy: A critique
- 7.2. Promoting transitions through deliberation, scenarios and learning
- 7.3. Deliberative energy policymaking for transitions
- 8. Technology Assessment and Innovation Policy
- 8.1. Not picking winners?
- 8.2. Setting future priorities
- 8.3. Playing to national strengths: The UK example
- 9. Distributed Generation: Transforming the Electricity Network
- 9.1. Distributed generation
- 9.2. The infrastructure and governance challenges
- 9.3. Network transformation
- 9.4. Politics, policy and regulation
- 10. Energy and the Citizen
- 10.1. Home energy: A green future?
- 10.2. Individual and community action: Removing barriers
- 10.3. Limits to choice?
- 10.4. Energy efficiency and energy services
- 10.5. From rhetoric to action
- 11. Carbon Trading
- 11.1. The role of carbon trading
- 11.2. The EU Emissions Trading Scheme
- 11.3. Economic, social and environmental considerations
- 11.4. Carbon trading in the UK
- 11.5. Making carbon trading effective
- 12. Global Energy Solutions?
- 12.1. The potential for global technical fixes
- 12.2. Technology transfer
- 12.3. From competition to cooperation
- Part III. Conclusions and Policy Implications
- 13. Conclusions: Transitions, Governance and Appraisal
- 13.1. Transitions
- 13.2. Governance
- 13.3. Appraisal
- 14. Energy Policy Implications
- 14.1. New principles and approaches
- 14.2. Stimulating infrastructure and technology change
- 14.3. Reforming institutions and markets
- 14.4. Building authority and legitimacy in government
- 14.5. The new agenda
- Afterword: Sustainable Energy-The Challenge of Choice
- References
- Index
