Energy for Development Resources, Technologies, Environment /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Toth, Ferenc L. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2012.
• Series: Environment & Policy, 54
• Subjects: Energy.; Energy policy.; Energy and state.; Climate change.; Sustainable development.; Development economics.; Environmental economics.; Energy, general.; Development Economics.; Sustainable Development.; Energy Policy, Economics and Management.; Environmental Economics.; Climate Change.

Global development brings with it a fast-rising demand for energy whose generation is a core environmental issue. Thus energy has become the prime focus of a plethora of research initiatives as well as being a central policy concern for governments the world over. This book demonstrates that access...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Energy for Development: A Key to Long-term Sustainability
• PART 1: International Institutions and National Decisions
• Rethinking Energy Aid Mechanisms: Three Premises
• Energy: The Missing Millennium Development Goal
• Multilateralism and Energy for Development
• The Possible Role of the Energy Charter in Advancing Energy for Development in Africa
• Resolving Mismatches in Energy Decision Making
• PART II: Energy Demand
• Demography, Urbanisation and Energy Demand
• Development, infrastructure and energy: Exploring the Linkages in Latin America
• Energy Efficiency for Development
• Externalities in the Global Energy System
• PART III: Energy Supply
• Technology and Innovation
• Energy Resources
• Financing Power Sector Investments
• Financing Renewable Energy
• Fossil Fuels and Carbon Capture and Storage
• Nuclear energy
• Energy and Food Security
• Index.