Energy for Development: Resources, Technologies, Environment

✍ Scribed by Ferenc L. Toth, Maria L. Videla (auth.), Ferenc L. Toth (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 253
• Series: Environment & Policy 54
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Energy for Development: A Key to Long-Term Sustainability....Pages 1-24
Front Matter....Pages 25-25
Rethinking Energy Aid Mechanisms: Three Premises....Pages 27-34
Energy: The Missing Millennium Development Goal....Pages 35-43
Multilateralism and Energy for Development....Pages 45-56
The Possible Role of the Energy Charter in Advancing Energy for Development in Africa....Pages 57-62
Resolving Mismatches in Energy Decision Making....Pages 63-78
Front Matter....Pages 79-79
Demography, Urbanisation and Energy Demand....Pages 81-94
Development, Infrastructure and Energy: Exploring the Linkages in Latin America....Pages 95-112
Energy Efficiency for Development....Pages 113-120
Externalities in the Global Energy System....Pages 121-138
Front Matter....Pages 139-139
Technology and Innovation....Pages 141-148
Energy Resources....Pages 149-160
Financing Power Sector Investments....Pages 161-170
Financing Renewable Energy....Pages 171-186
Fossil Fuels and Carbon Capture and Storage....Pages 187-203
Nuclear Energy....Pages 205-217
Energy and Food Security....Pages 219-233
Back Matter....Pages 235-239

✦ Subjects

Energy, general; Development Economics; Sustainable Development; Energy Policy, Economics and Management; Environmental Economics; Climate Change