Global Challenges of Climate Change, Vol.2

ISBN-13: 9783031164798 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023

Opis

This two-volume book offers a broad range of discussions on the immense challenge of climate change, one confronting every country on the planet and forcing them to find a path towards a sustainable future that will not have disastrous consequences in relation to our chances of survival. It also presents a snapshot of the status quo, which reflects all the decisions and measures taken to date. Analyzing the consequences of the steps that will shape our future, the two volumes also reflect on important decisions at a global level that have already been taken. 

This second volume on risks assessment and the political and social dimension of the green energy transition is structured into 14 chapters. International renowned scholars discuss the inherent risks that arise in consequence of the transition to the intensive use of low carbon energy sources and global warming, risks related to food and water security, as well as risks of social and political conflicts. They further examine the dependence on individual countries' industrial structures and on their socio-economic development level as challenges to climate change solutions and to the global energy policy agenda.

This book is a must-read for scholars, researchers and students, as well as policymakers interested in a better understanding of climate change, present scenarios, and alternative solutions and measures.

Spis treści

Chapter 1. The Root Causes of Our Environmental Crises We Ignore.- Chapter 2. Risks From Transition to Low Carbon Energies and Global Warming for FSU Countries.- Chapter 3. The General Situation with Climate Change in the World and Risk Assessment for the Global Economy.- Chapter 4. Why the Ramsey-Koopmans-Cass Model Underlying Noticeable Integrated Assessment Models is Misleading in Economic and Climate Projections.- Chapter 5. The Ecological Consequences of the Rising Economic Power of the BRICS Economies in Global Capitalism: An Eco-socialist Perspective.- Chapter 6. The Trinomial Nature – Nurture – Culture and Some Social Justice Aspects Regarding Adaptation to Climate Change.- Chapter 7. Examining the Relationship Between Eco-efficiency and Energy Poverty: A Stochastic Frontier Models Approach.- Chapter 8. Revisiting the Nexus Between Renewable and Non–renewable Energy, CO2 Emissions and Economic Growth: An Empirical Application to Asian and African Economies.- Chapter 9. Impact of Eu’s CBAM on EAEU Countries: The Case of Russia.- Chapter 10. Optimal Environmental Policy for NPS Pollution Under Cournot Duopoly.- Chapter 11. Сhallenges and Risks of the "Green" Transformation of the Countries Participating in the Integration Blocks: The Case of the Eurasian Economic Union.- Chapter 12. Green Finance in Eurasian Union – Should We Expect a Common Solution?.- Chapter 13. Prospects for Low-carbon Industrial Policy: The Case of Russia.- Chapter 14. Green Fiscal Policy and Development: Reconciling Climate and Structural Change.

O autorze

Tessaleno Campos Devezas is an Associate Professor with Habilitation at the Engineering Faculty of the Atlântica – Instituto Universitário, Lisbon, Portugal, where he serves as the Director of Aeronautical Engineering and teaches and researches in the field of materials engineering, aeronautical engineering, energy systems, innovation and technology management, and technological forecasting. He is the author or co-author of various scientific papers published in peer-reviewed international scientific journals and the author or co-editor of 13 books.

João Carlos Correia Leitão is an Associate Professor with habilitation and the Director of the UBIExecutive, Business School at the University of Beira Interior (UBI), Portugal. He further is a research fellow at the NECE Research Center in Business Sciences at UBI, and an Associate Researcher at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais (ICS), University of Lisbon, Portugal. Leitão is an external research fellow of the Center for Young and Family Enterprise (CYFE), Università Degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy. He is a prolific author and a series editor of the Springer book series Studies in Entrepreneurship, Structural Change, and Industrial Dynamics. Leitão is also an editorial board member of several international journals.

Yuri Yegorov is the Chair of Industry, Energy and Environment at the University of Vienna, Austria. He holds a PhD in mathematical physics from St. Petersburg University, Russia, and in Economics from UPF, Barcelona, Spain. Previously, he was a Visiting Researcher at Santa Fe Institute, USA. Yegorov worked at the Department of Applied Mathematics at the Maritime University of St.Petersburg, Russia (1987-1992), as Assistant Professor of Economics at University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain (1996-98), at the Central European University, Vienna, Austria (1998-2002), and at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria (2002-2007). His research focuses on markets for natural gas and dynamic optimization models.

Dmitry Chistilin is the President of the Simon Kuznets Institute for Selforganization and Development, Kyiv, Ukraine, and a Supervisor at the Center for Strategical Analysis of the Institute for the Analysis and Expertise of the VEB RF, in Moscow, Russia. He holds a PhD in economics from the Institute for Economics and Forecasting of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and taught courses on socioeconomic development and macroeconomic cycle theory at the Moscow State University, Russia.