1st Edition
Low Carbon Development Key Issues
Part 1: Introduction 1. Low Carbon Development: Origins, Concepts and Key Issues Frauke Urban and Johan Nordensvärd Part 2: The Politics of Low Carbon Development 2. The Political Economy of Low Carbon Development Matthew Lockwood 3. The Climate Change Policy Process and Low Carbon Development Merylyn Hedger Part 3: The Social Dimensions of Low Carbon Development 4. Social Justice and Low Carbon Development Thomas Tanner and Blane Harvey 5. Social Policy and Low Carbon Development Johan Nordensvärd Part 4: The Economics of Low Carbon Development 6. Climate Change Economics: Financing Low Carbon Development Frauke Urban and Johan Nordensvärd 7. The Future of Carbon Markets: Carbon Trading, the Clean Development Mechanism and beyond Markus Lederer Part 5: Technology and Innovation for Low Carbon Development 8. Low Carbon Innovation and Technology Transfer David Ockwell and Alexandra Mallet Part 6: Key Issues for Low Carbon Development in Policy and Practice 9. Renewable Energy and Energy Access in Developing Countries Ewan Bloomfield and Annabel Yadoo 10. Revolutionising the Electricity Sector: Renewable Energy and Low Carbon Grid Infrastructure Letha Tawney 11. Forestry and Low Carbon Development Rocio Hiraldo 12. Agriculture and Low Carbon Development Rocio Hiraldo 13. Transportation and Low Carbon Development David Tyfield 14. Triple Win? The Case of Climate Compatible Development Frauke Urban Part 7: Key Issues for Low Carbon Development in Low, Middle and High Income Countries: Case Studies 15. Approaches to Low Carbon Development in Low, Middle and High Income Countries: A Conceptual Framework Frauke Urban 16. Poverty Reduction and Economic Growth in a Carbon Constrained World: The Case of Ethiopia Frauke Urban and Hilawe Lakew 17. Low Carbon Development in Tanzania: Lessons from its Solar Home System Market Rob Byrne 18. Ride the Wind: Wind Energy in China Frauke Urban 19. Low Carbon City Planning in China Andreas Oberheitmann and Ruan Xiaodong 20. From Outsider to World Leader: Bioethanol in Brazil Napoleao Dequech Neto and Eva Heiss 21. Carbon Capture and Storage (CSS) in the US Jennie Stephens 22. Energy Efficiency Policy in Germany and the UK Jan Rosenow Final Thoughts Frauke Urban and Johan Nordensvärd
Biography
Frauke Urban is Lecturer in Environment and Development at the Centre for Development, Environment and Policy (CeDEP) at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), UK. She specializes in the linkages between energy, climate change and development, especially low carbon development, climate change mitigation and energy policy.
Johan Nordensvärd is a Researcher specializing in the field of social policy and low carbon development, globalization, global climate governance and energy policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK.
'In this student-friendly edited volume Urban and Nordensvärd have produced the first comprehensive introduction to low carbon development. In this one volume there is an impressive focus on the economic, political and social prospects for low carbon strategies across a range of policy areas in both the rich and poor worlds.' – Michael Cahill, University of Brighton, UK
