The Global Energy Challenge: Environment, Development and Security

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-41010-8
Verlag: PALGRAVE

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 522 g

The supply and demand of energy, its security and environmental sustainability are increasingly central issues in the contemporary world. This broad-ranging new text provides an international and interdisciplinary introduction to today's political, economic, security, policy and technological challenges set in a clear historical context.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kuzemko, Caroline

Goldthau, Andreas

Keating, Michael

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Global Energy Challenge

1. Perspectives on the Global Energy Challenge

2. Evolution and Dynamics of the World Energy System
3. The Political Economy of Energy

4. Actors and Institutions

5. Energy, Climate Change and the Environment
6. Energy for Development

7. Energy Security
8. Transit and Infrastructure

9. Technology and Innovation

10. Conclusions: Synergies, Conflicts and Energy Futures

Über Autor(innen)

Caroline Kuzemko is Research Fellow at the Energy Policy Group, University of Exeter, and Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation (CSGR), University of Warwick, UK.

Michael F. Keating is Professor of International Political Economy at Richmond, the American International University in London, UK.

Andreas Goldthau is Professor of Public Policy at Central European University, Hungary, Associate with the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, USA and Fellow with the Global Public Policy Institute, Berlin, Germany.