Includes bibliographical references and index.

"The Energy Transition, the inevitable shift away from cheap, centra lized, largely fossil-based energy systems, is one of the core challeng es of our time. This book provides a coherent and novel insight into th e nature of this challenge and possible strategies to accelerate and gu ide such transitions. It brings together prominent European scholars an d practitioners from the fields of energy transition research and gover nance to draw attention to the current complex dynamics in the energy d omain, and offer elegant and provocative explanations for current crise s and lock-ins. They identify multiple energy transition pathways that emerge and increasingly compete, and emphasize the need and possibiliti es for novel governance. By analysing the complexity of energy transiti on processes and the difficulties in shifting to sustainable pathways, this text questions the extent to which actually governing energy trans itions is already reality, just an illusion, or a bare necessity."-- Provided by publisher.