Energy for Development: Resources, Technologies, Environment

ISBN-13: 9789401779647 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 239 str.

Ferenc L. Toth

Opis

This book offers a unique and multifaceted collection of essays and studies about the role of energy in socioeconomic development. It provides a comprehensive overview of key issues at the nexus of energy, development, and the environment.

Spis treści

Preface

 

Energy for Development: A Key to Long-term Sustainability

 

 

PART I: 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

Blurb

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 to, and the affordability of, energy are key components in global and national efforts to alleviate poverty and foster social equity. It traces the wide array of concerns attendant on today’s global system of energy supply, ranging from resource depletion and technological development to environmental impacts.

 

Worldwide cooperation and coordination is essential if we are to foster economic development that is lasting and sustainable, and which avoids the environmental catastrophes that could arise from phenomena such as climate change. This collection of contributions from a diverse group of prominent international scientists and policy makers brings together their in-depth analyses and innovative ideas about how to resolve the ‘energy for development’ predicament. It includes studies quantifying the role of energy in socioeconomic development, analysis of the interplay between supranational and national institutions in policy implementation, the energy implications of demographic trends such as urbanisation, and exploration of supply-side issues such as the potential role of nuclear energy and ‘cleaning’ fossil fuel energy generation through carbon capture. It could be argued that there are no more important issues facing mankind in the 21st century, and that this publication is an essential contribution to an urgent and complex debate.