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  • The Geopolitics of Renewables

    by David Criekemans, Thijs van de Graaf, Thomas Sattich, Susann Handke, Marloes Dignum, Rick Bosman, Antonella Battaglini, Duncan Freeman, Nadejda Komendantova, Kanika Chawla, Fritz Reusswig, Sagatom Saha, Varun Sivarum, Karen Smith Stegen ...
    Series Book 61 - Lecture Notes in Energy
    Renewables are a game changer for interstate energy relations. Their abundance and intermittency, possibilities for decentral generation and use of rare earth materials, and generally electric nature of transportation make them very different from fossil fuels. What do these geographic and technical characteristics of renewable energy systems imply for infrastructure topology and operations, ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

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    by Ugo Bardi ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    “The Limits to Growth” (Meadows, 1972) generated unprecedented controversy with its predictions of the eventual collapse of the world's economies. First hailed as a great advance in science, “The Limits to Growth” was subsequently rejected and demonized. However, with many national economies now at risk and global peak oil apparently a reality, the methods, scenarios, and predictions of “The ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Smart City – Future City?

    Smart City 2.0 as a Livable City and Future Market

    by Chirine Etezadzadeh ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    The concept of a livable smart city presented in this book highlights the relevance of the functionality and integrated resilience of viable cities of the future. It critically examines the progressive digitalization that is taking place and identifies the revolutionized energy sector as the basis of urban life. The concept is based on people and their natural environment, resulting in a broader ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Meeting the Challenge of Sustainable Mobility

    The Role of Technological Innovations

    by Harry Geerlings ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The author provides new insights into the relationship between transport and the environment, the role of technology and the meaning of the concept of sustainable development for the transport sector. Special attention is given to the relationship between technological progress and policy. The different theoretical approaches are combined to create a strategy for R&D and the implementation of mega ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • China’s Renewable Energy Revolution

    by John A. Mathews, Hao Tan ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The authors suggest that China's renewable energy system, the largest in the world, will quickly supersede the black energy system that has powered the country's rapid rise as workshop of the world and for reasons that have more to do with fixing environmental pollution and enhancing energy security than with curbing carbon emissions. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Southern Energy Corridor: Turkey's Role in European Energy Security

    by Ozay Mehmet, Vedat Yorucu ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This book highlights the importance of Turkey in diversifying supplies in future European energy security, focusing in particular on the rapidly emerging southern energy corridor. Turkey, by its location, occupies a key role in this corridor, fed by hydrocarbon supplies from Russian, Caspian, east Mediterranean and Arab sources.The book examines Turkey's role as a transit country (in addition to ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Smart Markets for Water Resources

    A Manual for Implementation

    by Mark W. Milke, John F. Raffensperger ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Why is trade in wholesale water so rare, when markets can actively trade bread, tractors, and electricity? This book shows that water markets fail because of high transaction costs, resulting in inefficient allocations and unpredictable environmental effects. To overcome these obstacles, this book proposes a trading mechanism called a smart market. A smart market is an auction cleared with ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • The Legal Status of the Caspian Sea

    Current Challenges and Prospects for Future Development

    by Barbara Janusz-Pawletta ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book analyzes the legal and economic situation concerning the removal and allocation of the natural resources in the Caspian Sea – the largest enclosed body of salt water in the world, which not only constitutes a fragile ecosystem with great fishery resources, but is also rich in oil and gas deposits. The economic advantages gained from the development of oil and gas are the basis for the ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Peeking at Peak Oil

    by Kjell Aleklett ...
    Translated by Michael Lardelli ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The term “Peak Oil” was born in January 2001 when Colin Campbell formed the Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas (ASPO). Now, Peak Oil is used thousands of times a day by journalists, politicians, industry leaders, economists, scientists and countless others around the globe. Peak Oil is not the end of oil but it tells us the end is in sight. Anyone interested in food production, economic ... Read more

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  • A Primer on Nonmarket Valuation

    Edited by Patricia A. Champ, Kevin J. Boyle, Thomas C. Brown ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This is a practical book with clear descriptions of the most commonly used nonmarket methods. The first chapters of the book provide the context and theoretical foundation of nonmarket valuation along with a discussion of data collection procedures. The middle chapters describe the major stated- and revealed-preference valuation methods. For each method, the steps involved in implementation are ... Read more

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  • Investing for Sustainability

    The Management of Mineral Wealth

    by Rognvaldur Hannesson ...
    Mineral deposits are non-renewable; they do not grow in the ground. Sustainable use of finite mineral wealth requires that revenues from mineral extraction be invested in renewable wealth, education and infrastructure, machines and other production equipment, or in financial assets. Different countries, states and provinces have done so with a varying degree of success. Investing for ... Read more

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  • Energy Relations and Policy Making in Asia

    Edited by Leo Lester ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This volume goes beyond a conventional analysis of Asia’s energy relationships and explores the premise that energy relations in Asia in the 21st century should reinforce mutual interdependence. Conventional analyses of international energy relations stress the asymmetric nature of the risks and costs of disruptions to energy flows. Energy suppliers (net exporters) are concerned with the cost of a ... Read more

    $89.09 USD