Energy for the Future

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxii

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2. The Energy Policy Agenda

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introduction: Climate Policy is Energy Policy

      • Ivan Scrase, Tao Wang, Gordon MacKerron, Francis McGowan, Steve Sorrell

      Pages 3-19

   3. International Regimes for Energy: Finding the Right Level for Policy

      • Francis McGowan

      Pages 20-34

   4. Energy Issues: Framing and Policy Change

      • Ivan Scrase, David Ockwell

      Pages 35-53

   5. Energy Governance: The Challenges of Sustainability

      • Adrian Smith

      Pages 54-75

   6. Lessons from the UK on Urgency and Legitimacy in Energy Policymaking

      • Gordon MacKerron

      Pages 76-88

   7. Lock-In

      • Ivan Scrase, Gordon Mackerron

      Pages 89-100

3. Towards a New Agenda

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101

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   2. Deliberative Socio-Technical Transitions

      • Markku Lehtonen, Florian Kern

      Pages 103-122

   3. Technology Assessment and Innovation Policy

      • Jim Watson

      Pages 123-146

   4. Distributed Generation: Transforming the Electricity Network

      • Raphael Sauter, Dierk Bauknecht

      Pages 147-164

   5. Energy and the Citizen

      • Mari Martiskainen, Jim Watson

      Pages 165-182

   6. Carbon Trading

      • Steve Sorrell

      Pages 183-208

   7. Global Energy Solutions?

      • Francis McGowan, David Ockwell, Gordon MacKerron, Jim Watson, Markku Lehtonen, Ivan Scrase

      Pages 209-220

4. Conclusions and Policy Implications

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 221-221

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   2. Conclusions: Transitions, Governance and Appraisal

      • Ivan Scrase, Dierk Bauknecht, Florian Kern, Markku Lehtonen, Gordon Mackerron, Mari Martiskainen et al.

      Pages 223-238

   3. Energy Policy Implications

      • Ivan Scrase, Florian Kern, Markku Lehtonen, Gordon MacKerron, Mari Martiskainen, Francis McGowan et al.

      Pages 239-250

5. Back Matter

   Pages 251-298

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Cutting carbon emissions is urgent but very challenging in wealthy democracies. Energy for the Future analyzes the changing contexts, imperatives and fault lines, and proposes ways forwards. Greater public engagement and a new approach to markets are vital, but traditional concerns with energy security and economic efficiency cannot be set aside.

• Carbon emissions
• Carbon Trading
• Climate Policy
• energy policy
• Governance
• Policy
• sustainability

• Sussex Energy Group, SPRU — Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex, UK

  Ivan Scrase, Gordon MacKerron

IVAN SCRASE works on policy framings, appraisals and change in the areas of carbon abatement, energy efficiency, bioenergy and flood risk management. He trained at Oxford, UK (BA) and Imperial College London (MSc, PhD), and has worked in academia, the NGO sector and environmental consultancy.

GORDON MACKERRON is an economist who works on energy policy and economics, especially the trade-offs between policy objectives, as well as on electricity issues, especially nuclear power policy. He has worked in government and consultancy as well as academia and chaired the UK Government Committee on Radioactive Waste Management.

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