At a time when climate-change deniers hold the reins of power in the United States and international greenhouse gas negotiations continue at a slow crawl, what options are available to cities, companies, and consumers around the world who seek a cleaner future? Scott Victor Valentine, Marilyn A. Brown, and Benjamin K. Sovacool explore developments and strategies that will help fast-track the transition to renewable energy. 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 examines trends that suggest a transition away from carbon-intensive energy sources is inevitable—there are too many forces for change at work to stop a shift to clean energy. Yet under the status quo, change will be too slow to avert the worst consequences of climate change. Humanity is on a path to incur avoidable social, environmental, and economic costs. Valentine, Brown, and Sovacool argue that new policies and business models are needed to surmount the hurdles separating the current consumption model from a sustainable energy future. Empowering the Great Energy Transition shows that with well-placed efforts, 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.
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Preface
Acknowledgments
1. The Great Energy Transition
2. Sneak Preview of the Challenges to the Energy Transition
3. The Uncertainties of Climate Change
4. Managing Uncertainties While Promoting Technological Evolution
5. Fostering and Financing the Energy Infrastructure Transition
6. Policies for Driving Innovation and Expediting the Transition
7. Consumers as Agents of Change
8. Minimizing Governance Barriers and Creating Polycentric Networks
9. Faster, Further, Farther: Empowering the Great Energy Transition
Notes
Index
Об авторе
Marilyn Brown is a Professor in the School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech. Previously, she held anappointment 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).
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