Narratives of Low-Carbon Transitions

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents empirical evidence reflecting the complex challenges and potential consequences of low-carbon pathways, enabling us to draw valuable lessons on the risks and uncertainties we face in choosing these pathways, as well as ways to manage them and ultimately enable their sustainable and lasting social and environmental effects. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures

List of tables

Notes on contributors

Preface and acknowledgements

Part I: Setting the stage

1. 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
Gonzßlez-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 

Autoreninfo

Susanne Hanger-Kopp is a researcher at the Institute for Environmental Decisions at ETH Zürich, Switzerland, and at the Risk and Resilience Program of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg, Austria.

Jenny Lieu is a research fellow at the University of Sussex, UK, and guest researcher at the Transdisciplinary Lap of the Department of Environmental Systems Science at ETH Zürich, Switzerland.

Alexandros Nikas is a researcher at the Management & Decision Support Systems Laboratory of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece.