Renewable Energy Governance Complexities and Challenges /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Michalena, Evanthie (Editor), Hills, Jeremy Maxwell (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Energy, 23
• Subjects: Energy.; Energy policy.; Energy and state.; Energy industries.; Energy Policy, Economics and Management.; Energy Economics.

This book focuses on Renewable Energy (RE) governance - the institutions, plans, policies and stakeholders that are involved in RE implementation - and the complexities and challenges associated with this much discussed energy area. Whilst RE technologies have advanced and become cheaper, governance...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - Renewable Energy Governance – Is it Blocking the Technically Feasible?
• Renewable and Conventional Electricity Generation Systems: Technologies and Diversity of Energy Systems
• Institutional Factors that Determine Energy Transitions: A Comparative Case Study Approach
• Renewable Energy: Urban Centres Lead the Dance in Australia?
• Endogenous Tourism Development Through Renewable Energy Governance: A Questionable Challenge
• Outliers or Frontrunners? Exploring the (Self-) Governance of Community-owned Sustainable Energy in Scotland and the Netherlands
• Renewable Energy Governance in Kenya: Plugging into the Grid, ‘Plugging into Progress’
• Renewable Energy in New Zealand: The Reluctance for Resilience
• The Development of Renewable Energy Governance in Greece. Examples of a Failed (?) Policy
• Lost in the National Labyrinths of Bureaucracy: The Case of Renewable Energy Governance in Cyprus .