Managing the Transition to Renewable Energy: Theory and Practice from Local, Regional and Macro Perspectives - Hardcover

 
9781847202291: Managing the Transition to Renewable Energy: Theory and Practice from Local, Regional and Macro Perspectives
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1847202292 ISBN 13: 9781847202291
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2008

Synopsis

This book addresses the problem of how to make a large-scale socio-technical transition to renewable energy, so as to realize an environmentally sustainable economy in the long run. Transition thinking has in a short time managed to occupy a central position in the policy debate on sustainable development. The transition approach offers an innovative view on the role and content of public policy, compared with traditional views from economic, administrative and political sciences. The main motivation for using this notion is that while it links up with the system-wide approach of sustainable development, it has the advantage of shifting the attention from a vague end goal (blueprint) to the processes leading towards this goal. These processes in turn provide a concrete basis for thinking about appropriate public policies, taking account of the complex relations between technologies, institutions and behaviours. This book offers perspectives from a wide range of disciplines, addressing macro, regional and local scales. Contributions come from mainstream economics, evolutionary economics, sociology, political sciences, innovation studies, spatial economics and decision theory. Important lessons are also drawn from historical transitions.

Managing the Transition to Renewable Energy will appeal to academics and researchers in environmental science and economics, environmental and technological policy advisors, evolutionary economists and researchers on technological innovation.

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About the Author

Edited by Jeroen C.J.M. van den Bergh, ICREA Professor, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain and Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Frank R. Bruinsma, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Publisher
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Publication date
2008
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1847202292
ISBN 13 
9781847202291
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
400
Editor
Van Den Bergh Jeroen C.J.M., Bruinsma Frank R.