Global Energy Dilemmas: Energy Security, Globalization, and Climate Change

Bradshaw, Mike

ISBN 10: 0745650643 / ISBN 13: 9780745650647

Edité par Polity, 2013

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Global Energy Dilemmas: Energy Security, Globalization, and Climate Change
• Éditeur: Polity
• Date de parution: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0745650643
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780745650647
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• État de l'article: Good
• Poids: 500 grammes

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Synopsis

Today's global energy system faces two major challenges: how to secure the supply of reliable and affordable energy; and how to rapidly transform to a low-carbon, efficient and environmentally harmless energy supply. In this rigorous and illuminating book, Michael Bradshaw explores the key aspects of the current global energy dilemma and examines how it is playing out across the major regions and countries of the world.

The book begins by charting the development of the current global energy system - exploring its key characteristics with a focus upon energy security and the relationship between energy, economic development and climate change. The next four chapters offer in-depth analyses of four distinct global energy dilemmas in different parts of the world: the challenge of sustaining affluence and decarbonising energy services in the high-energy economies of the developed world; the legacies of the centrally planned economy and the consequences of liberalisation in the post-socialist world; growing energy demand and emissions growth associated with the emerging regions; and finally, the quest to provide universal access to modern energy services in the developing world in a manner that is both economically and environmentally sustainable.

Identifying the governance structures and policy options available to tackle the global energy dilemma, the book concludes that only an integrated approach - sensitive to regional issues - can reconcile the interests and needs of those facing differing energy challenges across the world today.

À propos de l?auteur

Michael Bradshaw is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Leicester. In 2014 he will take up the post of Professor of Global Energy at Warwick Business School.