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This book presents empirical evidence reflecting the complex challenges and potential consequences of low-carbon pathways, enabling us to draw valuable lessons on the risks and uncertainties we face in choosing these pathways, as well as ways to manage them and ultimately enable their sustainable and lasting social and environmental effects.
List of contents
List of figures
List of tables
Notes on contributors
Preface and acknowledgements
Part I: Setting the stage
1. Introduction
Susanne Hanger-Kopp, Jenny Lieu, and Alexandros Nikas
2. Framing risks and uncertainties associated with low-carbon pathways
Susanne Hanger-Kopp, Alexandros Nikas, Jenny Lieu
Part II: Pathways for incumbent large-scale technology systems
3. Austria: co-designing a low-carbon transition pathway focusing on energy supply for the iron and steel sector
Brigitte Wolkinger, Jakob Mayer, Andreas Tuerk, Gabriel Bachner, and Karl Steininger
4. Canada: finding common ground - the need for plural voices in lower-carbon futures of the Alberta oil sands
Luis D. Virla, Jenny Lieu, and Cecilia Fitzpatrick
5. United Kingdom: pathways towards a low-carbon electricity system – nuclear expansion versus nuclear phase out
Rocío Alvarez-Tinoco, Michele Stua, and Gordon MacKerron
Part III: Pathways towards renewable electricity systems
6. Chile: promoting renewable energy and the risk of energy poverty in Chile
Luis E. Gonzales Carrasco and Rodrigo Cerda
7. The Netherlands: expanding solar PV – risk and uncertainties associated with small- and large-scale options
Krisztina de Bruyn-Szendrei, Wytze van der Gaast, and Eise Spijker
8. Spain: on a rollercoaster of regulatory change - risks and uncertainties associated with a renewable energy transition
Alevgul H. Sorman, Cristina Pizarro-Irizar, Xaquín García-Muros, Mikel González-Eguino, and Iñaki Arto
9. Switzerland: risks associated with implementing a national energy strategy
Oscar van Vliet
Part IV: Pathways towards energy-efficient building sectors
10. China: risks and uncertainties in low-carbon pathways for the urban building sector
Lei Song, Jenny Lieu, and Ying Chen
11. Greece: from near-term actions to long-term pathways - risks and uncertainties associated with the national energy efficiency framework
Alexandros Nikas, Nikolaos Gkonis, Aikaterini Forouli, Eleftherios Siskos, Apostolos Arsenopoulos, Aikaterini Papapostolou, Eleni Kanellou, Charikleia Karakosta, and Haris Doukas
Part V: Pathways focusing on renewable energy technologies at household and community levels
12. Indonesia: risks and uncertainties associated with biogas for cooking and electricity
Mariana Silaen, Yudiandra Yuwono, Richard Taylor, Tahia Devisscher, Syamsidar Thamrin, Cynthia Ismail, and Takeshi Takama
13. Kenya: risks and uncertainties around low-carbon energy pathways
Oliver W. Johnson, Hannah Wanjiru, Mbeo Ogeya, and Francis X. Johnson
Part VI: Synthesis.
14. Transition pathways, risks, and uncertainties
Jenny Lieu, Susanne Hanger-Kopp, Wytze van der Gaast, Richard Taylor
About the author
Susanne Hanger-Kopp is a researcher at the Institute for Environmental Decisions at ETH Zürich, Switzerland, and at the Risk and Resilience Program of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg, Austria.
Jenny Lieu is a research fellow at the University of Sussex, UK, and guest researcher at the Transdisciplinary Lap of the Department of Environmental Systems Science at ETH Zürich, Switzerland.
Alexandros Nikas is a researcher at the Management & Decision Support Systems Laboratory of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece.
Summary
This book presents empirical evidence reflecting the complex challenges and potential consequences of low-carbon pathways, enabling us to draw valuable lessons on the risks and uncertainties we face in choosing these pathways, as well as ways to manage them and ultimately enable their sustainable and lasting social and environmental effects.
