Empowering the Great Energy Transition: Policy for a Low-Carbon Future
ISBN: 9780231546423
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter



Empowering the Great Energy Transition demonstrates that a transition away from carbon-intensive energy sources is inevitable--if we can overcome the forces supporting incumbent technologies. It provides an expert analysis of the achievable steps that citizens, organizational leaders, and policy makers can take.
Valentine Scott :

Scott Valentine is an Associate Professor of Environmental Policy at Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. He previously served as founding Associate Director of the International Masters of Public Policy Program at the Graduate School of Public Policy,
University of Tokyo. Valentine's recent publications include Wind Power Politics and Policy (Oxford University Press, 2014), and The National Politics of Nuclear Power (Routledge, 2012 - co-authored with Benjamin Sovacool).Sovacool Benjamin :

Benjamin Sovacool is a Professor of Energy Policy at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the School of Business, Management, and Economics, at the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom, where he is also the Director of the Center on Innovation and Energy Demand. He is the author of The Political Economy of Climate Change Adaptation (Palgrave, 2015), Energy Poverty (Oxford University Press, 2015), Global Energy Justice (Cambridge, 2014), The National Politics of Nuclear Power (Routledge, 2012 - co-authored with Scott Valentine), and Climate Change and Global Energy Security (MIT Press, 2011).Brown Marilyn :

Marilyn Brown is a Professor in the School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech. Previously, she held an
appointment at the U.S Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and is serving her second term as a Presidential appointee to the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority and on the DOE's Electricity Advisory Committee. She is the author of Green Savings: How Policies and Markets Drive Energy Efficiency (Praeger, 2015), and Climate Change and Global Energy Security (MIT Press, 2011).Scott Victor Valentine is professor and associate dean of sustainability and urban planning at RMIT University. His books include Wind Power Politics and Policies (2014) and, also with Brown and Sovacool, Fact and Fiction in Global Energy Policy: Fifteen Contentious Questions (2016).

Marilyn A. Brown is a Regents' and Brook Byers Professor in the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she directs the Climate and Energy Policy Lab. A former utility regulator, she is a corecipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for the IPCC Report on Mitigation of Climate Change.

Benjamin K. Sovacool is professor of energy policy at the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex, where he serves as director of the Sussex Energy Group and of the Center on Innovation and Energy Demand. His publications include Global Energy Justice: Problems, Principles, and Practices (2014).


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