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This book examines the paradox that resource-rich countries often struggle to manage their resources in a way that will help their economies thrive. It looks at how a country's political regime and quality of governance can determine the degree to which it benefits - or...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-02-20
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This book explores how African countries can convert their natural resources, particularly oil and gas, into sustainable development assets. Using Ghana, one of the continent’s newest oil-producing countries, as a lens, it examines the "resource curse" faced by other...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-02-02
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Against the backdrop of rapid advances in the energy sector, this book provides a concise overview of the complex challenges in the energy paradigm today, which revolve around the seemingly unsolvable energy equation. The author, an experienced energy professional,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-01-26
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This study traces the activities of the European Commission in the natural gas sector from 1990 to 2016, by concentrating on market liberalisation and infrastructure development as the main pillars of the European gas security architecture. By building on previous...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2017-01-23
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Das Stuttgarter Institut für Energieeffizienz in der Produktion (EEP) hat die zweite Auflage der Metastudie „Energieeffizienz in Deutschland“ erarbeitet. Sie liefert Zahlen, Daten und Fakten zum Entwicklungs- und Kenntnisstand der Energieeffizienz in Deutschland. Die...
Editeur :
Springer Vieweg
Parution :
2016-12-28
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This book examines the ways that oil economics will impact the rapidly changing global economy, and the oil industry itself, over the coming decades. The predictions of peak oil were both right and wrong. Oil production has been constrained in relation to demand for the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-12-26
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Energy
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This book is about engaging and empowering people through their own domestic resources, by using upstream energy to create larger downstream employment opportunities. Incorporating sustainability, resource enhancement, and energy responsibility can generate awareness...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-14
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This book offers a complete introduction for novices to understand key concepts of biocatalysis and how to produce in-house enzymes that can be used for low-cost biofuels production. The authors discuss the challenges involved in the commercialization of the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-12-08
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
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This book presents a socio-economic and livelihood analysis of agriculturally-dependent communities of Mizoram, the eastern extension of the Himalaya, using the sustainable livelihood approach. Such an approach to poverty reduction is inevitable, particularly, in areas...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-11-26
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science
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This book documents the socio-environmental context and early history of Hawaii's attempt to substitute renewable energy sources and energy efficiency measures for oil imports. It identifies areas of policy formulation where clean energy strategies were effective and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-11-21
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This book presents cutting-edge work on innovative planning methodologies, tools and experiences aimed at supporting the transition of our cities and regions towards a more smart and sustainable dimension.This book comprises a selection of the best papers presented at...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-11-03
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This book presents a succinct overview of research on China's Energy Efficiency as studied by the Center for Energy & Environmental Policy Research (CEEP), Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT). Energy efficiency, linking energy supply, demand and market, is...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-11-03
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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...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-31
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This book contributes to an ongoing debate about the EU as a global actor, the organization’s ability to speak with one voice in energy affairs, and the external dimension of the regulatory state. Investigating whether the Energy Union amounts to a fundamental shift...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-27
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This book gathers an in-depth collection of 45 selected papers presented at the Global Conference on Global Warming 2014 in Beijing, China, covering a broad variety of topics from the main principles of thermodynamics and their role in design, analysis, and the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-10-17
Collection :
Lecture Notes in Energy
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Dieses Buch zeigt am Beispiel des komplexen Themas Entsorgung radioaktiver Reststoffe die Herangehensweise für disziplinübergreifende Zusammenarbeit und die transdisziplinäre Verknüpfung von Wissenschaft und Öffentlichkeit. Es bietet Praxisbezogene Vorschläge aus einem...
Editeur :
Springer Vieweg
Parution :
2016-09-30
Collection :
Energie in Naturwissenschaft, Technik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft
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This book brings
together leading experts to assess how and whether the Nazis were successful in
fostering collaboration to secure the resources they required during World War
II. These studies of the occupation regimes in Norway and Western Europe reveal
that the Nazis...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-09-22
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Energy Positive Neighborhoods and SmartEnergy Districts: Methods, Tools, and Experiences from the Field is a comprehensive guide to this highly interdisciplinary topic. Monti et. al's combined experience make them the most qualified team of editors to explore the...
Editeur :
Academic Press
Parution :
2016-09-21
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This book outlines how Germans convinced their politicians to pass laws allowing citizens to make their own energy, even when it hurt utility companies to do so. It traces the origins of the Energiewende movement in Germany from the Power Rebels of Schönau to German...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-09-09
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This book describes the Exergy-based Input – Output (ExIO) framework, a comprehensive methodology for assessing the primary fossil fuels requirements for the production of goods and services within a given economy from a lifecycle perspective. In the ExIO approach,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-08-19
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
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