Energy Efficiency and Climate Change: Conserving Power for a Sustainable Future - Couverture rigide

Reddy, B. Sudhakara; Assenza, Gaudenz B.; Assenza, Dora; Hasselmann, Franziska

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 8132102282 ISBN 13 : 9788132102281

Editeur : SAGE, 2009

Synopsis

This book deals with a gamut of issues related to energy efficiency, development, and environment with a view to provide a systematic framework for the efficient utilization of energy. While analyzing the barriers and drivers for energy-efficiency investments, it focuses on mobilization of private capital and the commercialization of energy-efficiency technologies. It also links the issue with the climate debate in terms of its causes, outcomes, policy initiatives, mitigation, and adaptation methodologies.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

B. Sudhakara Reddy is a Professor at Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai. He has an experience of 24 years. He has been actively involved in a number of projects and has been member of prestigious bodies such as Research Advisory Committee, Institute for Global Environmental Change; Indo-China Economic Forum; Planning Board, Government of Maharashtra (1997–98); Expert Committee, Andhra Pradesh State Higher Education; Expert Group, National Hydrogen Energy Board, Ministry of Power; World Renewable Energy Congress, and so on. He has worked as consultant in United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Environment Programme, Ministry of Power, Government of India, Maharashtra State Electricity Board, Canadian International Development Agency, Swidish International Development Agency, United States Agency for Industrial Development, and so on.

Professor Reddy’s authored works include Urban Energy Systems (1998), Barriers to the Diffusion of Renewable Energy Technologies (2002). He has co-edited Planning for Demand Side Management in the Electricity Sector (1994), Sustainable Regeneration of Degraded Lands (1997), Energy, Environment and Development: A Technological Perspective (2005), Ecology and Human Well Being (2006).

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Deals with a gamut of issues related to energy efficiency, development and environment with a view to provide a systematic framework for the efficient utilization of energy. Analysing the barriers for energy-efficiency investments, this book focuses on mobilization of private capital and the commercialization of energy-efficiency technologies.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: SAGE
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 8132102282
• ISBN 13: 9788132102281
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 349
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible