Shows that economic concerns about jobs, costs, and consumption, rather than climate change, are likely to drive energy transition in developing countries.

Kathryn Hochstetler is Professor of International Development at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her book Greening Brazil: Environmental Activism in State and Society (co-authored with Margaret E. Keck, 2007) received the Lynton Caldwell Prize from the Science, Technology, and Environmental Politics section of the American Political Science Association.  

1. Political economies of energy transition in Brazil and South Africa; 2. Wind and solar power in the transition to a low-carbon economy; 3. States, markets, and energy transition: good industrial policy?; 4. Electricity consumption in Brazil and South Africa: distribution and prices; 5. People and place: siting wind and solar plants in Brazil and South Africa; 6. Political economies of energy transition.