Global Energy - Issues, Potentials, and Policy Implications

This grad text is about energy and other resources, and the technologies that have been and are being developed to exploit them; to understand how the global energy system is developing, and how it might in the future.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Jim Skea: The Global Energy Context


• 2: Jim Watson, Xinxin Wang, Florian Kern: Energy Systems and Innovation


• 3: Gavin Bridge and Michael Bradshaw: Deepening Globalization: Economies, Trade, and Energy Systems


• 4: Joanna Depledge: The Global Climate Change Regime


• 5: Katy Roelich, John Barrett, and Anne Owen: The Implications of Indirect Emissions for Climate and Energy Policy


• 6: Robert Holland, Kate Scott, Tina Wegg, Nicola Beaumont, Eleni Papathanasopoulou, and Pete Smith: Energy production and Ecosystem Services


• 7: Charlie Wilson, Kathryn Janda, Françoise Bartiaux, and Mithra Moezzi: Technical, Economic, Social, and Cultural Perspectives on Energy Demand


• 8: Xavier Lemaire: Energy Access and Development in the 21st Century


• 9: Kathryn B. Janda, Charlie Wilson, Mithra Moezzi, and Françoise Bartiaux: Improving Efficiency in Buildings: Conventional and Alternative Approaches


• 10: Hannah Daly, Paul Dodds, and Will McDowall: Challenges and Options for Sustainable Travel: Mobility, Motorisation, and Vehicle Technologies


• 11: Antony Evans and Tristan Smith: Shipping and Aviation


• 12: Jim Watson and Cameron Jones: Carbon Capture and Storage


• 13: Michael Bradshaw, Antony Froggatt, Christophe McGlade, and Jamie Speirs: Fossil Fuels: Reserves, Costs Curves, Production, and Consumption


• 14: Michael Bradshaw, Murtala Chindo, Joseph Dutton, and Kärg Kama: Unconventional Fossil Fuels and Technological Change


• 15: Michael Bradshaw, Joseph Dutton, and Gavin Bridge: The Geopolitical Economy of a Globalizing Gas Market


• 16: Markku Lehtonen and Mari Martiskainen: Nuclear Power after Fukushima: Prospects and Implications


• 17: Raphael Slade and Ausilio Bauen: Bioenergy Resources


• 18: Solar Energy: An Untapped Growing Potential?


• 19: Laura Finlay, Henry Jeffrey, Andy MacGillivray, and George Aggidis: Water: Ocean Energy and Hydro


• 20: Will McDowall and Andrew ZP Smith: Global Wind Power Developments and Prospects


• 21: Paul E. Dodds and Birgit Fais: Network Infrastructure and Energy Storage for Low-Carbon Energy Systems


• 22: Jamie Speirs and Katy Roelich: Metals for the Low-Carbon Energy System


• 23: Catherine Mitchell: Electricity Markets and their Regulatory Systems for a Sustainable Future


• 24: Christophe McGlade, Olivier Dessens, Gabrial Anandarajah, and Paul Ekins: Global Scenarios of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction


• 25: Eleni Papathanasopoulou, Robert Holland, Trudie Dockerty, Kate Scott, Tina Wegg, Nicola Beaumont, Gail Taylor, Gilla Sünnenberg, Andrew Lovett, Pete Smith, and Melanie Austen: Energy and Ecosystem Service Impacts


• 26: Paul Ekins: Policies and Conclusions

About the author

Paul Ekins has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of London and is Professor of Resources and Environmental Policy and Director of the UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources, University College London. He is also Deputy Director of the UK Energy Research Centre, in charge of its Energy Resources and Vectors theme. He was a Member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution from 2002-2008. Paul Ekins' academic work focuses on the conditions and policies for achieving an environmentally sustainable economy, concerning which he has written numerous books, papers and articles, including Global Warming and Energy Demand (co-Ed., Routledge, 1995), Economic Growth and Environmental Sustainability: the Prospects for Green Growth (Routledge, London, 2000), Carbon-Energy Taxation: Lessons from Europe (co-Ed, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009), and Energy 2050: the Transition to a Secure, Low-Carbon Energy System for the UK (co-Ed, Earthscan, London, 2011).

Mike Bradshaw joined Warwick Business as Professor of Global Energy in January 2014, where he teaches a course on their Global Energy MBA entitled Energy in Global Politics. Prior to that he spent 13 years at the University of Leicester as Professor of Human Geography. He has a PhD in Human Geography from the University of British Columbia, Canada. His research deals with the geopolitical economy of oil and gas, with a particular emphasis on developments in Russia. He has recently completed a project funded by the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) that examined the Geopolitical Economy of Global Gas Security and Governance and its implications for the UK. He is also involved in both UK-based and EU-wide research programmes on the social science aspects of shale gas development. In 2014 Polity Press published his book: Global Energy Dilemmas. He is currently writing a book on the geopolitics of natural gas.

Jim Watson is Research Director of the UK Energy Research Centre and Professor of Energy Policy at the University of Sussex. He was Director of the Sussex Energy Group at Sussex from Dec 2008 to Jan 2013. He has 20 years of research experience on climate change, energy and innovation policies. His recent outputs include a co-edited book: New Challenges in Energy Security: The UK in a multipolar world (Palgrave, 2013). He has advised several UK government departments, and has been a specialist adviser to two House of Commons select committees. He also has extensive international experience, particularly in China. He is a Council Member of the British Institute for Energy Economics, and a member of the advisory boards of several research and policy organisations.

Summary

This grad text is about energy and other resources, and the technologies that have been and are being developed to exploit them; to understand how the global energy system is developing, and how it might in the future.

Foreword

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Product details

• Authors: Paul Bradshaw Ekins
• Assisted by: Mike Bradshaw (Editor), Bradshaw Mike (Editor), Paul Ekins (Editor), Ekins Paul (Editor), Jim Watson (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.09.2015
• EAN: 9780198719526
• ISBN: 978-0-19-871952-6
• No. of pages: 624
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; NATURE / Natural Resources, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Environmental Economics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Energy, Environmental Economics, Energy industries & utilities, Energy resources, Energy industries and utilities