China's Energy Security: Analysis, Assessment and Improvement - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1786349213 ISBN 13 : 9781786349217

Editeur : World Scientific Europe Ltd, 2021

Synopsis

China is the second-largest economy in the world yet it faces serious energy security challenges due to the country's reliance on coal, a fuel with multiple environmental and social problems. Moreover, since 2017 China has become the world's largest crude oil importer, greatly increasing its reliance on imported energy.The International Energy Agency has defined energy security as 'the uninterrupted availability of energy sources at an affordable price, ' employing metrics in various dimensions such as availability, affordability, accessibility and acceptability to measure the energy security of different nations. Accordingly, the assessment, analysis and improvement of energy security is a complex problem. China's Energy Security aims to resolve this problem by answering three important questions:

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À propos de l'auteur

Jingzheng Ren is currently an Assistant Professor of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) and an Adjunct/Honorary Associate Professor of University of Southern Denmark (SDU).

His research focuses on Sustainability Science and Energy and Environmental Management. He has also authored/co-authored more than 140 papers in the leading refereed SCI indexed journals, edited 7 books and contributed more than 30 book chapters. Many of his papers have been selected as the Essential Science Indicators (ESI) top 1% highly cited papers or identified and highlighted as the Key Scientific Article contributing to the excellence in Energy research.

He has directed/co-directed many grants funded by Research Grants Council of Hong Kong SAR, Danish Agency for Research and Innovation (Styrelsen for Forsjning og Innovation) and the Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Science, etc.

He also serves as the editor, associate editor, specialty chief editor, or section chief editors of many journals belonging to Springer, Elsevier, AIP and other publishers. He works as a member of many international scientific societies and has served as the session chair, academic member and technical committee member of many international conferences.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: World Scientific Europe Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1786349213
• ISBN 13: 9781786349217
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 248
• Éditeur: Ren Jingzheng
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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