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This book is intended for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners interested in the dynamics and governance of low-carbon transitions. Drawing on the Multi-Level Perspective, it develops a whole system reconfiguration approach that explains how the incorporation of multiple innovations can cumulatively reconfigure existing systems. The book focuses on UK electricity, heat, and mobility systems, and it systematically analyses interactions between radical niche-innovations and existing (sub)systems across techno-economic, policy, and actor dimensions in the past three decades. Comparative analysis explains why the unfolding low-carbon transitions in these three systems vary in speed, scope, and depth. It evaluates to what degree these transitions qualify as Great Reconfigurations and assesses the future potential for, and barriers to, deeper low-carbon system transitions. Generalising across these systems, broader lessons are developed about the roles of incumbent firms, governance and politics, user engagement, wider public, and civil society organisations. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

After the perceived failure of global approaches to tackling climate change, enthusiasm for local climate initiatives has blossomed world-wide, suggesting a more experimental approach to climate governance. Innovating Climate Governance: Moving Beyond Experiments looks critically at climate governance experimentation, focusing on how experimental outcomes become embedded in practices, rules and norms. Policy which encourages local action on climate change, rather than global burden-sharing, suggests a radically different approach to tackling climate issues. This book reflects on what climate governance experiments achieve, as well as what happens after and beyond these experiments. A bottom-up, polycentric approach is analyzed, exploring the outcomes of climate experiments and how they can have broader, transformative effects in society. Contributions offer a wide range of approaches and cover more than fifty empirical cases internationally, making this an ideal resource for academics and practitioners involved in studying, developing and evaluating climate governance

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: The relevance of technologies in decline -- PART I: Conceptual explorations -- 2. Dynamics of technological decline as socio-material unravelling -- 3. Destabilisation, decline and phase-out in transitions research -- 4. Conceptual aspects of discontinuation governance: An exploration -- PART II: Empirical explorations -- 5. Discourses around decline: Comparing the debates on coal phase-out in the UK, Germany and Finland -- 6. Mapping the territorial adaptation of technological trajectories: The phase-out of the internal combustion engine -- 7. The role of alternative technologies in the enactment of (dis)continuities -- 8. Caring for decline: The case of 16mm film artworks of Tacita Dean -- PART III: Governance explorations -- 9. Implementing exnovation?: Ambitions and governance complexity in the case of the Brussels Low Emission Zone -- 10. Phase-out as a policy approach to address sustainability challenges: A systematic revie -- 11. The end of the world's leaded petrol era: Reflections on the final four decades of a century-long campaign -- 12. Conclusions and continuations: Horizons for studying technologies in decline -- Index.