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EU Energy Security in the Gas Sector: Evolving Dynamics, Policy Dilemmas and Prospects

by Filippos Proedrou

This book fills an important gap in the literature on energy security in the gas sector in the European Union, shedding light on the state of EU energy security in the gas sector, its interdependence with external...


The Coal Question: Political Economy and Industrial Change from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day

by Ben Fine

The coal industry has always occupied a symbolic place in British economic and political life, inspiring debates and arousing passions throughout the last two centuries. This account of the economics of coal,...


Revisiting Public-Private Partnerships in the Power Sector

by Maria Vagliasindi

Given the chronic power shortages faced by numerous developing countries, and the need everywhere to keep pace with demand, understanding the drivers of public private partnerships (PPPs) in energy is critical....


Power Market Structure: Revisiting Policy Options

by Maria Vagliasindi & John Besant-Jones

The current distribution of power markets around intermediate structures between full integration and unbundling suggests that there has not been a linear path to reform in practice. Instead, many developing...


Eco-Innovation Management and Sustainability

by Bart Bossink

Sustainability is a phenomenon that must be pursued in a complex system of interrelated elements of business, society, and ecology. It is important to gain an understanding of these elements, the interplay between...


Global Energy Governance in a Multipolar World

by Dries Lesage & Thijs Van de Graaf

Investigating the relationship between the emergence of a multipolar world order and the enormous challenges of global energy governance that the world is facing in the 21st century, this volume reflects on...


Russian Renewable Energy: The Potential for International Cooperation

by Indra Øverland & Heidi Kjærnet

What is Russia's potential as a partner in the global race towards a low-carbon economy? This book provides a balanced analysis of Russia's impressive, understudied and sometimes surprising strengths in the...


The Bioregional Economy: Land, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness

by Molly Scott Cato

In a world of climate change and declining oil supplies, what is the plan for the provisioning of resources? Green economists suggest a need to replace the globalised economy, and its extended supply chains,...


Clean Tech Nation

by Ron Pernick & Clint Wilder

With other nations aggressively forging ahead in clean tech—including renewable energy, smart grid, electric vehicles, and green buildings—how can the United States position itself for success?

On its current...


Oil and Democracy in Iraq

by Robert Springborg

This is the first major study of the alternatives confronting Iraq as it seeks to rebuild its vital oil industry while simultaneously constructing a new political system. A key challenge facing the country is...


Renewable Energy - The Facts

by Walter Witzel & Dieter Seifried

Interest in renewable energy has never been greater, but much uncertainty remains as to the role the various technologies will play in the transition to a low-carbon future. This book sets out the facts - how...


Renewable Energy and the Public: From NIMBY to Participation

by Patrick Devine-Wright

Throughout the world, the threat of climate change is pressing governments to accelerate the deployment of technologies to generate low carbon electricity or heat. But this is frequently leading to controversy,...


Carbon Capture and Sequestration: Removing the Legal and Regulatory Barriers

by M. Granger Granger Morgan & Sean T. T. McCoy

The United States produces over seventy percent of all its electricity from fossil fuels and nearly fifty percent from coal alone. Worldwide, forty-one percent of all electricity is generated from coal, making...


Concentrating Solar Power in Developing Countries: Regulatory and Financial Incentives for Scaling Up

by Natalia Kulichenko & Jens Wirth

At present, different concentrating solar thermal technologies (CST) have reached varying degrees of commercial availability. This emerging nature of CST means that there are market and technical impediments...


Design and Performance of Policy Instruments to Promote the Development of Renewable Energy: Emerging Experience in Selected Developing Countries

by Gabriela Elizondo Azuela & Luiz Augusto Barroso

Renewable energy plays an important role in contributing to the transition toward low-carbon development growth, in enhancing technology diversification and hedging against fuel price volatility, in strengthening...


The Eskimo and The Oil Man: The Battle at the Top of the World for America's Future

by Bob Reiss

The Arctic century is upon us. A great jockeying for power and influence has erupted among nations in the high north. At stake are trillions of dollars in profit or loss, US security, geopolitical influence...


Carbon Capture and Storage in Developing Countries: A Perspective on Barriers to Deployment

by Natalya Kulichenko & Eleanor Ereira

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technology could provide a technological bridge for achieving near to midterm GHG emission reduction goals. Integrated CCS technology is still under development and has noteworthy...


Foundations for Indigenous Peoples in the Global Mining Boom

by Marcia Langton & Judy Longbottom

How are indigenous and local people faring in their dealings with mining and related industries in the first part of the 21st century? The unifying experience in all the resource-rich states covered in the book...


Reappraising State-Owned Enterprise: A Comparison of the UK and Italy

by Franco Amatori, Robert Millward & Pier Angelo Angelo Toninelli

After a quarter century of almost general condemnation and rebuttal of the entire nationalization experience, it appears that there are second thoughts about governmental direct intervention in the economy....


Biochar for Environmental Management: Science and Technology

by Johannes Lehmann & Stephen Joseph

Biochar is the carbon-rich product when biomass (such as wood, manure or crop residues) is heated in a closed container with little or no available air. It can be used to improve agriculture and the environment...