Energy Policy in the Emerging Economies: Climate Change Mitigation under the Constraints of Path Dependence
Apr 2019 · Rowman & Littlefield
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Energy has always been essential to economics and politics. While global energy consumption increases, fossil fuels are depleting. The countries that will be hit hardest by declining energy resources are the emerging economies of the Global South, where the relevance of the industrial sector is only slightly declining (or, indeed, still on the rise) and where governments have subsidised energy consumption for decades. Climate change – a direct outcome of the increasing consumption of fossil fuels – hits these emerging economies hard. Against this backdrop, Energy Policy inthe Emerging Economies: Climate Change Mitigation under the Constraints of Path Dependence analyses energy policy in Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, South Africaand South Korea with particular regard to these countries’ contributions to climatechange mitigation. Advancing a new approach that expands on energy transition studies and the concept of path dependence, Sören Scholvin and Joachim Betzshed light on material conditions, energy demand and expansion plans, politico-economicconstellations, energy-related know-how and climate policy.
About the author
Sören Scholvin is research fellow at the Institute of Economic and Cultural Geography at the University of Hanover and associate researcher at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies.
Joachim Betz is associate researcher at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies and professor emeritus at the University of Hamburg.
Joachim Betz is associate researcher at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies and professor emeritus at the University of Hamburg.
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