This Handbook is the first volume to comprehensively analyse and problem-solve how to manage the decline of fossil fuels as the world tackles climate change and shifts towards a low-carbon energy transition. The overall findings are straight-forward and unsurprising: although fossil fuels have powered the industrialisation of many nations and improved the lives of hundreds of millions of people, another century dominated by fossil fuels would be disastrous. Fossil fuels and associated greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced to a level that avoids rising temperatures and rising risks in support of a just and sustainable energy transition.
Divided into four sections and 25 contributions from global leading experts, the chapters span a wide range of energy technologies and sources including fossil fuels, carbon mitigation options, renewables, low carbon energy, energy storage, electric vehicles and energy sectors (electricity, heat and transport). They cover varied legal jurisdictions and multiple governance approaches encompassing multi- and inter-disciplinary technological, environmental, social, economic, political, legal and policy perspectives with timely case studies from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, South America and the Pacific.
Providing an insightful contribution to the literature and a much-needed synthesis of the field as a whole, this book will have great appeal to decision makers, practitioners, students and scholars in the field of energy transition studies seeking a comprehensive understanding of the opportunities and challenges in managing the decline of fossil fuels.
Part I: INTRODUCTION.- 1 Fossil Fuels in a Carbon-Constrained World;
Geoffrey Wood.- 2 Carbon Capture and Renewables: Strategic Conflicts or
Tactical; David Elliott.- 3 The Long Goodbye to the Nuclear Monument; Paul
Dorfman.- 4 The Impact of Intermittent Renewables on Conventional Thermal
Generation: The Role of Capacity Remuneration Mechanisms in European
Electricity Markets; Taner ahin.- PART II: MANAGING THE DECLINE OF FOSSIL
FUELS.- 5 Chinas Efforts to Constrain its Fossil Fuel Consumption; Philip
Andrews-Speed.- 6 Managing the Decline of Fossil Fuels in a Fossil Fuel
Intensive Economy: the Case of the Netherlands; Sem Oxenaar and Rick Bosman.-
7 Fossil Fuels and Transitions: The UK MER Strategy and Low Carbon Energy
Transitions; Gokce Mete, Wairimu Karanja and Nduta Njenga.- 8 Enacted
Inertia: Australian Fossil Fuel Incumbents Strategies to Undermine
Challengers; Marc Hudson.- 9 Buffeted or Energised? Indias Dynamic Energy
Transition; Daniel Gilbert and Pooja Chatterjee.- 10 Latin America: Using the
Leverage of Fossil Fuels to Power Renewable Energy in the Developing World;
Juan Felipe Neira Castro and Geoffrey Wood.- 11 Transitioning to a Low Carbon
Economy: Is Africa Ready to Bid Farewell to Fossil Fuels?; Victoria Nalule.-
12 The Role of German Trade Unions in the Energy Transition: Agency and
Power; Stefan Bößner.- 13 Fossil Fuel Decline and the Rural Economy: The Case
of Scotland; Bill Slee.- PART III: TOWARDS A NEW AGENDA?.- 14 The Long Hello:
Energy Governance, Public Participation and Fracking; John Whitton and Ioan
Charnley-Parry.- 15 Ban Or Regulate? Critical Junctures in New Yorks Fossil
Fuel Regulation; Ida Dokk Smith.- 16 Regulation and Market reform: The
essential foundations for a renewable future; Iain Wright.- 17 Prolonging
Fossil Fuels or Hastening the Low-Carbon Transition? The Diffusion of Biofuel
Development: Motivations and Strategies; Jale Tosun and Trevelyan S. Wing.-
18 Re-making the future: Transition movements and dismantling the
environment-economy dichotomy; Cassandra Star.- 19 Is Energy Justice in the
Fossil Fuel Industry a Paradox?; Tedd Moya Mose and Mohammad Hazrati.-
20 Fossil Fuel Welfare versus the Climate; Alex Lenferna.- 21 Perspectives on
an energy system after a decline in fossil fuel use: Welcome to the
Store-Age; Andrew Crossland.- 22 Decarbonising Heat in Scotland The Perfect
Storm Revisited; Keith Baker.- PART V: EPILOGUE.- 23 Managing the Decline of
Fossil Fuels: A Long Goodbye?; Geoffrey Wood.- 24 Our Time is Up; Keith Baker
and Geoffrey Wood.
Geoffrey Wood is a teaching fellow in International Energy Law and Policy at Stirling University Law School, UK. Actively involved in research specialising in energy, multi-level governance and energy transitions, he has published over 40 articles, books, chapters and other publications. Geoff has previously held research, lecturing and consultancy positions at Dundee University, the Scottish Government and the Offshore Renewables Institute. Keith Baker is a researcher in Fuel Poverty and Energy Policy at the Built Environment Asset Management Centre, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK, Co-founder of the Energy Poverty Research initiative, and an active member of the Scottish think and do tank, Common Weal.
