The Palgrave Handbook of Managing Fossil Fuels and Energy Transitions

Part I: INTRODUCTION.- 1Fossil Fuels in a Carbon-Constrained World; Geoffrey Wood.- 2Carbon Capture and Renewables: Strategic Conflicts or Tactical; David Elliott.- 3The Long Goodbye to the Nuclear Monument; Paul Dorfman.- 4The Impact of Intermittent Renewables on Conventional Thermal Generation: The Role of Capacity Remuneration Mechanisms in European Electricity Markets; Taner Sahin.- PART II: MANAGING THE DECLINE OF FOSSIL FUELS.- 5China's Efforts to Constrain its Fossil Fuel Consumption; Philip Andrews-Speed.- 6Managing the Decline of Fossil Fuels in a Fossil Fuel Intensive Economy: the Case of the Netherlands; Sem Oxenaar and Rick Bosman.- 7Fossil Fuels and Transitions: The UK MER Strategy and Low Carbon Energy Transitions; Gokce Mete, Wairimu Karanja and Nduta Njenga.- 8Enacted Inertia: Australian Fossil Fuel Incumbents' Strategies to Undermine Challengers; Marc Hudson.- 9Buffeted or Energised? India's Dynamic Energy Transition; Daniel Gilbert and Pooja Chatterjee.- 10Latin America: Using the Leverage of Fossil Fuels to Power Renewable Energy in the Developing World; Juan Felipe Neira Castro and Geoffrey Wood.- 11Transitioning to a Low Carbon Economy: Is Africa Ready to Bid Farewell to Fossil Fuels?; Victoria Nalule.- 12The Role of German Trade Unions in the Energy Transition: Agency and Power; Stefan Bössner.- 13Fossil Fuel Decline and the Rural Economy: The Case of Scotland; Bill Slee.- PART III: TOWARDS A NEW AGENDA?.- 14The Long Hello: Energy Governance, Public Participation and 'Fracking'; John Whitton and Ioan Charnley-Parry.- 15Ban Or Regulate? Critical Junctures in New York's Fossil Fuel Regulation; Ida Dokk Smith.- 16Regulation and Market reform: The essential foundations for a renewable future; Iain Wright.- 17Prolonging Fossil Fuels or Hastening the Low-Carbon Transition? The Diffusion of Biofuel Development: Motivations and Strategies; Jale Tosun and Trevelyan S. Wing.- 18Re-making the future: Transition movements and dismantling the

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.