Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Biographies; Foreword; 1 A Battle of Modernities; 2 Green Energy Transition in the EU and the United States; 3 Energy Frontiers in China; 4 Growth versus Green Transition: Energy in Sub-Saharan Africa; 5 The Automotive Industry: Meandering Towards Green Transition in the European Union and the United States; 6 Driven to Change: The Chinese State-Led Development of a Car Culture and Economy; 7 Squaring Growth with Green Transition in Africa's Automobile Sector; 8 Towards Ecomodernity; Index
Summary
"This book breaks new ground in the studies of green transition. It frames the ongoing transformation in terms of a ""battle of modernities"" with the emerging vision of ecomodernity as the final destination. It also offers a systematic exploration of the potential for extensive transformation of carbon-intensive sectors - with a focus on energy and transport - towards a low or post-carbon economy. The book does so in a comparative perspective, by pointing to a diversity of techno-economic and institutional solutions in the mature Western economies, and in the rapidly growing East and developing South"--Page i
