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Global development brings with it a fast-rising demand for energy whose generation is a core environmental issue. Thus energy has become the prime focus of a plethora of research initiatives as well as being a central policy concern for governments the world over. This book demonstrates that access...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Toth, Ferenc L. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
Edición:1st ed. 2012.
Colección:Environment & Policy, 54
Temas:
Energy policy.
Energy and state.
Electric power production.
Development economics.
Sustainability.
Environmental economics.
Energy Policy, Economics and Management.
Electrical Power Engineering.
Mechanical Power Engineering.
Development Economics.
Environmental Economics.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Energy for Development: A Key to Long-term Sustainability
  • PART 1: International Institutions and National Decisions
  • Rethinking Energy Aid Mechanisms: Three Premises
  • Energy: The Missing Millennium Development Goal
  • Multilateralism and Energy for Development
  • The Possible Role of the Energy Charter in Advancing Energy for Development in Africa
  • Resolving Mismatches in Energy Decision Making
  • PART II: Energy Demand
  • Demography, Urbanisation and Energy Demand
  • Development, infrastructure and energy: Exploring the Linkages in Latin America
  • Energy Efficiency for Development
  • Externalities in the Global Energy System
  • PART III: Energy Supply
  • Technology and Innovation
  • Energy Resources
  • Financing Power Sector Investments
  • Financing Renewable Energy
  • Fossil Fuels and Carbon Capture and Storage
  • Nuclear energy
  • Energy and Food Security
  • Index.

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