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Renewable Energy Transition in Asia

Policies, Markets and Emerging Issues

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Overview

  • The book explores how transitioning to renewable energy helps minimise the dependency on conventional fossil fuels
  • Discusses the extent to which countries are able to ensure sustained growth of clean energy supply through the development of renewable sources
  • Shows to what extent the conflict between renewable energy development and environment have been effectively addressed by policy mechanisms in the Asian region

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Overview

  2. Technology and Politics

  3. Governance and Legal Aspects

  4. Energy Access

  5. Water-Energy Nexus

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About this book

This book covers critical debates on policies, markets and emerging issues that shape renewable energy transition in the Asian region, which is fast becoming an epicenter of the global energy consumption.

The chapters focus on domestic policies, geopolitics, technology landscape and governance structure pertaining to the development of renewable energy in different Asian countries ranging from China to the Middle East. The book presents an insightful view of the pace and magnitude of the energy transition. It presents critical steps countries are taking to promote affordable and clean energy (SDG 7) as well as strengthening climate mitigation actions (SDG 13).

In addition, this book introduces the concept of co-innovation---a collaborative and iterative approach to jointly innovate, manufacture and scale up low-carbon technologies---and its role in promoting energy transition in Asia. 

Chapter 8 (Renewable energy deployment to stimulate energy transition in the Gulf Cooperation Council) is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.


Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Hayama, Japan

    Nandakumar Janardhanan

  • Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW), New Delhi, India

    Vaibhav Chaturvedi

About the editors

Dr. Nandakumar Janardhanan is a Research Manager of Climate and Energy Division and the Regional Coordinator for South Asia operations at the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Japan. He specialises in energy and climate policy and has research interests in energy security and geopolitics, renewable energy, low-carbon development and nuclear power. He has also been associated with several policy think tanks, research organisations and universities of international repute.

Dr. Vaibhav Chaturvedi is a Research Fellow at the Council on Energy Environment and Water (CEEW) and leads the Council’s ’Low Carbon Pathways’ research. Prior to joining the Council, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Joint Global Change Research Institute/ Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA. His research focuses on Indian and global energy and climate change mitigation policy issues within the integrated assessment modelling framework ofthe Global Change Assessment Model (GCAM).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Renewable Energy Transition in Asia

  • Book Subtitle: Policies, Markets and Emerging Issues

  • Editors: Nandakumar Janardhanan, Vaibhav Chaturvedi

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8905-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Energy, Energy (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-8904-1Published: 13 February 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-8905-8Published: 12 February 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 292

  • Number of Illustrations: 26 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Asian Politics, Environmental Politics, Renewable and Green Energy

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