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100 1  Michalena, Evanthie.|eeditor. 
245 10 Renewable Energy Governance|h[electronic resource] :
       |bComplexities and Challenges /|cedited by Evanthie 
       Michalena, Jeremy Maxwell Hills. 
260    London :|bSpringer London :|bImprint: Springer,|c2013. 
300    IX, 397 p. 40 illus.|bonline resource. 
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490 1  Lecture Notes in Energy,|x2195-1284 ;|v57 
500    IT Carlow ebook 
500    springer ebooks 
505 0  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 . 
520    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 schemes rarely support those 
       technologies in an efficient and cost-effective way. To 
       illustrate the problem, global case-studies delicately 
       demonstrate successes and failures of renewable energy 
       governance. RE here is considered from a number of 
       perspectives: as a regional geopolitical agent, as a tool 
       to meet national RE targets and as a promoter of local 
       development. The book considers daring insights on RE 
       transitions, governmental policies as well as financial 
       tools, such as Feed-in-Tariffs; along with their 
       inefficiencies and costs. This comprehensive probing of RE
       concludes with a treatment of what we call the Mega-What 
       question - who is benefitting the most from RE and how 
       society can get the best deal? After reading this book, 
       the reader will have been in contact with all aspects of 
       RE governance and be closer to the pulse of RE mechanisms.
       The reader should also be able to contribute more 
       critically to the dialogue about RE rather than just 
       reinforce the well-worn adage that RE is a good thing to 
       happen. 
650  0 Engineering economy. 
700 1  Hills, Jeremy Maxwell.|eeditor. 
710 2  SpringerLink (Online service) 
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