Solar Photovoltaic Technology Production: Potential Environmental Impacts and Implications for Governance

ISBN-13: 9780128029534 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 116 str.

Sundaram, Senthilarasu

Opis

Solar Photovoltaic Technology Production: Potential Environmental Impacts and Implications for Governance provides an overview of the emerging industrial PV sector, its technologies, and the regulatory frameworks supporting them. This new book reviews and categorizes the potential environmental impacts of several main PV technologies, examining the extent to which current EU governance frameworks regulate such impacts. By identifying the gaps or regulatory mismatches and creating a basis for normative recommendations on governance change, this book analyzes potential governance implications and their impacts in relation to manufacturers upscaling PV production techniques.

• Fills the need for a coherent source of information on the potential impacts of different PV technologies
• Provides comprehensive coverage of lifecycle analysis (LCA) of PV technologies in a single reference
• Analyzes relevant governance arrangements for researchers and manufacturers

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Overview of the PV Industry and Different Technologies

Chapter 3: Potential Environmental Impacts From Solar Energy Technologies

Chapter 4: The Sustainability of Solar PV Governance: A Comparative International Perspective

Chapter 5: A Normative Perspective on Governing Solar PV Sustainability

Chapter 6: Future Issues and Recommendations

O autorze

Senthilarasu Sundaram is an Associate Professor in the School of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment. He completed his Ph.D. at Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, India, in 2006. He has worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Chonbuk National University, South Korea (From 2006 to 2008) and the National University of Singapore in 2009. Before join in Edinburgh Napier University, he was a senior lecturer at the University of Exeter, and he worked as a postdoctoral research associate at Loughborough University (201-2011) and Heriot-Watt University (2012). Prof. Sundaram is working on sustainable energy technologies to create environmentally sustainable materials for energy generation, storage, building integrated applications, thermal storage, water remediation, and low carbon heating applications. He is involved in various EPSRC, EU, and Innovate UK-funded projects. Published more than 150 journal articles and participated as an editorial member with different journals, including Nature Scientific Reports. David Benson is a Senior Lecturer based in the Environment and Sustainability Institute (ESI) at the University of Exeter, Penryn, Cornwall. His research encompasses a range of issue areas at the interface between political and environmental sciences, most notably EU environmental and energy policy, comparative environmental governance and public participation in environmental decision-making Prof. Tapas Kumar Mallick, PhD, is currently the Chair in Clean Technologies within the Environment and Sustainability Institute (ESI) and Academic Lead in Renewable Energy, University of Exeter, UK. He is also adjacent Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India. His research span over various aspect of solar photovoltaic technology, especially high efficiency and low cost device and integrated renewables. He has published over 180 research articles on solar technology and has given over 80 academic presentations in 13 countries. Prof. Mallick is the Editor-in-Chief of "Advances in Renewable Energy Journal” and Editor-in-Chief of Editorial Boards for Energy Sources in the Journal of 'Energies'.