The Palgrave Handbook of Managing Fossil Fuels and Energy Transitions

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Fossil Fuels in a Carbon-Constrained World

      • Geoffrey Wood

      Pages 3-23

   3. Carbon Capture and Renewables: Strategic Conflicts or Tactical Complementarities

      • David Elliott

      Pages 25-55

   4. The Long Goodbye to the Nuclear Monument

      • Paul Dorfman

      Pages 57-84

   5. Capacity Remuneration Mechanisms: Regulatory Tools for Sustaining Thermal Power Plants and the EU Energy Transition

      • Taner Şahin

      Pages 85-105

3. Managing the Decline of Fossil Fuels

   1. Front Matter

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   2. China’s Efforts to Constrain its Fossil Fuel Consumption

      • Philip Andrews-Speed

      Pages 109-137

   3. Managing the Decline of Fossil Fuels in a Fossil Fuel Intensive Economy: The Case of The Netherlands

      • Sem Oxenaar, Rick Bosman

      Pages 139-165

   4. Fossil Fuels and Transitions: The UK Maximising Economic Recovery Strategy and Low-Carbon Energy Transitions

      • Gokce Mete, Wairimu Karanja, Nduta Njenga

      Pages 167-194

   5. Enacted Inertia: Australian Fossil Fuel Incumbents’ Strategies to Undermine Challengers

      • Marc Hudson

      Pages 195-222

   6. Buffeted or Energized? India’s Dynamic Energy Transition

      • Daniel Gilbert, Pooja Chatterjee

      Pages 223-260

   7. Transitioning to a Low Carbon Economy: Is Africa Ready to Bid Farewell to Fossil Fuels?

      • Victoria R. Nalule

      Pages 261-286

   8. On the New Paradigm of International Energy Development: Risks and Challenges for Russia and the World on the Way to the Low-Carbon Future

      • Andrey Konoplyanik

      Pages 287-339

   9. The Role of German Regime Actors and Trade Unions in the Energy Transition: Agency and Power

      • Stefan Bößner

      Pages 341-369

   10. Fossil Fuel Decline and the Rural Economy: The Case of Scotland

       • Bill Slee

       Pages 371-401

4. Towards a New Agenda?

   1. Front Matter

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   2. The Long Hello: Energy Governance, Public Participation, and ‘Fracking’

      • John Whitton, Ioan Charnley-Parry

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   3. Ban or Regulate? A Critical Juncture in New York’s Fossil Fuel Regulation

      • Ida Dokk Smith

      Pages 427-452

   4. Regulation and Market Reform: The Essential Foundations for a Renewable Future

      • Iain Wright

      Pages 453-482

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.

• fossil fuels
• renewables
• energy transition
• low carbon energy
• decline of fossil fuels
• carbon capture and storage
• the reality of climate change
• Optimal carbon Reduction
• Long Goodbye
• nuclear energy
• European Electricity Markets
• China's energy policy
• UK MER Strategy
• decarbonisation in Australia
• India’s Energy Transition
• Low Carbon Economy
• Energiewende
• ‘Fracking’
• Sustainable Biofuels
• Energy Justice

• School of Law, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK

  Geoffrey Wood

• Built Environment Asset Management (BEAM) Centre, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, UK

  Keith Baker

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. 

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