Beschreibung:
Atle Midttun is Professor at the Norwegian School of Management, Institute of Innovation and Economic Organisation, Director of the Centre for Corporate Responsibility, and Co-director of the Centre for Energy and Environment.
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.
1. A Battle of Modernities 2. Green Energy Tansition in the EU and 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. Towrds Ecomodernity