ABSTRACT
The transition to a low carbon Scotland can be helpfully understood in the dynamic interplay of three sets of issues. First, there are the specific institutional, infrastructural and physical resource characteristics of Scotland. These include the possibilities afforded by the governance powers devolved to the Scottish Parliament and Executive in 1999, the existing organisation of and pressures upon key socio-technical infrastructures, and the low carbon potential afforded by Scotland's physical geography. Second are the ways in which political power, in both Scotland and at a UK national level, is being mobilised and the sets of ‘low carbon’ priorities, targets and legislation that follow. Third are the different strategies and responses that constitute the low carbon Scotland that is being made and how that is organised.
