Energy Democracy Germany’s Energiewende to Renewables /

Energy Democracy Germany’s Energiewende to Renewables /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Morris, Craig (Author), Jungjohann, Arne (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Summary:	XXIII, 437 p. 1 illus. in color. text
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Edition:	1st ed. 2016.
Subjects:	Environmental sciences > Social aspects. Renewable energy sources. Environment. Energy policy. Energy and state. Environmental Law. Environmental Social Sciences. Renewable Energy. Environmental Sciences. Energy Policy, Economics and Management.
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31891-2
Format:	Electronic Book

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: Energiewende – the solution to more problems than climate change
Chapter 2: The birth of a movement: 1970s protests for democracy in Wyhl
Chapter 3: Fledgling wind power – the folly of innovation without deployment
Chapter 4: German wind pioneers fighting power monopolies in the 1980s
Chapter 5: The Power Rebels of Schönau
Chapter 6: Renewable energy in conservative communities
Chapter 7: The 1990s: laying the foundations for the Energiewende
Chapter 8: Green capitalism made in Germany
Chapter 9: The Red-Green revolution (1998-2005)
Chapter 10: Healthy democracy: key to the Energiewende’s success
Chapter 11: Utilities bet on gas and coal and renewables boom (2005-2011)
Chapter 12: From Meitner to Merkel: a history of German nuclear power
Chapter 13: Merkel takes ownership of the Energiewende (2011-today)
Chapter 14: Will the Energiewende succeed?
Chapter 15: Act now or be left out.