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examines principal energy policy decisions and their lingering effects, by recounting the historical context surrounding the interplay of law, markets, and technology.

A comprehensive textbook that integrates tools from technology, economics, markets, and policy to approach energy issues using a dynamic systems and capital-centric perspective.

In May 2007, the National Academies Chemical Sciences Roundtable held a public workshop on the topic of Bioinspired Chemistry for Energy, where government, academic, and industry representatives discussed promising research developments in solar-generated fuels, hydrogen-processing enzymes, artificial photosynthetic systems, and biological-based fuel cells.

Topical Issues of Rational Use of Natural Resources 2019 contains the contributions presented at the XV International Forum-Contest of Students and Young Researchers under the auspices of UNESCO (St.

With South Asia's growing energy demand, governments in the region are facing the short-term pressures of facilitating energy access, while attempting to formulate long-term sustainable strategies.

A comprehensive, coherent strategy for modernizing America''s electricity infrastructure while ensuring affordable, reliable, secure, and environmentally sustainable electricity services.

This book presents the main conclusions reached by the academic project "e;Geopolitics of Gas and the Future of the Euro-Russian Relations (Geo4GER).

This book presents an analytic history of American energy policy, examining policy failures and how the policy process itself leads to failure.

Canada is one of many countries around the world that use nuclear reactors to generate electrical power, in part to reduce our carbon footprint.

This book acts as a reference that provides readers with the broadest available single volume coverage of leading edge advances in the development and optimization of clean energy technologies.

This book is a comprehensive and analytical perspective on the future of electricity demand in a low-carbon world.

In 2006 Abu Dhabi launched an ambitious project to construct the world's first zero-carbon city: Masdar City.

This book dispels common myths about electricity and electricity policy and reveals how government policies manipulate energy markets, create hidden costs, and may inflict a net harm on the American people and the environment.

This book, the result of a congressionally mandated study, examines the adequacy of the regulatory framework for mining of hardrock mineralssuch as gold, silver, copper, and uraniumon over 350 million acres of federal lands in the western United States.

Electricity is a basic requirement for a modern economy, and transmission grids at the center of transition to a low-carbon power system.

With large-format color photography, ENERGY features the writings of more than thirty leading thinkers on energy, society, and ecology.

This book presents an analytic history of American energy policy, examining policy failures and how the policy process itself leads to failure.

Through the study of Nepal, shows a successful alternative to dominant energy infrastructure development paradigms typically imposed on developing countries.

The economic and political aspects of energy subsidies, viewed both theoretically and empirically, with a focus on fossil fuel subsidies in developing nations.

A new focus on international diplomacy and cooperation as the race for polar resources escalates As the race for resources in distant parts of the planet gathers momentum, the Arctic and Antarctic have taken on a more prominent role in international relations.

The Energy Reader takes an unflinching look at the environmental devastation created by our thirst for energyincluding supposedly clean renewable sources.

An essential review of the history, benefits, limitations, failures, and politics of pipelines, with a core focus on potential harms to environmental and human health.

Since the beginning of the 21st century, China's energy diplomacy has been expanding rapidly and the country is searching for energy resources worldwide.

Originally published in 1977, this book concentrates on the period since nationalisation in the history of the coal industry.

What must we do to achieve a sustainable society?

This is the first handbook to provide a global policy perspective on energy, bringing together a diverse range of international energy issues in one volume.

This new International Version includes all material covered in the standard eighth edition, but numerical data and calculations are expressed in Systeme International (SI) units.

Methane hydrate is a natural form of clathrate - a chemical substance in which one molecule forms a lattice around a "e;guest"e; molecule with chemical bonding.

Die Klärung der Frage nach einer gemeinsamen Energieaußenpolitik der EU-Mitgliedsstaaten ist für die Europäische Union als Hochtechnologiestandort unerlässlich: Von der Warenproduktion bis hin zur alltäglichen Kommunikation ist jeder Bereich auf Elektrizität und damit auf den Import von Energieträgern wie Öl und Gas angewiesen.

To meet human energy needs, the use of fossil fuels is set to continue well into the second half of the 21st century.

An essential review of the history, benefits, limitations, failures, and politics of pipelines, with a core focus on potential harms to environmental and human health.

Best Available and Safest Technologies for Offshore Oil and Gas Operations: Options for Implementation explores a range of options for improving the implementation of the U.

Concerns about energy resources and the environmental impact of energy use will continue to be important globally.

Employing scientific explanations and hard data, this book shows why coal is such a problem, how the pro-coal forces got to be so powerful, and how those forces might be defeated through political activism.

In 2001, the National Research Council (NRC) completed a congressionally mandated assessment of the benefits and costs of DOE's fossil energy and energy efficiency R&D programs, Energy Research at DOE: Was It Worth It?

Die Widersprüche zwischen Ökonomie und Ökologie bringen unseren Planeten an den Rand einer Katastrophe, wenn wir es nicht lernen, Energie in einer Form zur Verfügung zu stellen, die schrittweise den Überschuss von Schadstoffen zu reduzieren hilft.

Despite ongoing efforts to find alternatives, oil is still one of the most critical-and valuable-commodities on earth.

Helium has long been the subject of public policy deliberation and management, largely because of its many strategic uses and its unusual source-it is a derived product of natural gas and its market has several anomalous characteristics.

Between 2009 and 2013 Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer conducted fieldwork in Mexico's Isthmus of Tehuantepec to examine the political, social, and ecological dimensions of moving from fossil fuels to wind power.

No two nations have exchanged natural resources, produced transborder environmental agreements, or cooperatively altered ecosystems on the same scale as Canada and the United States.

For over eighty years the Arab region has been deriving massive wealth from its natural resources.

A scarcity of natural resources.

Despite ongoing efforts to find alternatives, oil is still one of the most critical-and valuable-commodities on earth.

This study was undertaken in recognition of the critical role played by the Energy Resources Program (ERP) of the U.

First World Petro-Politics examines the vital yet understudied case of a first world petro-state facing related social, ecological, and economic crises in the context of recent critical work on fossil capitalism.

"e;Today, over two billion people in developing countries live without any electricity.

A must-read for anyone seeking to understand the complex issues surrounding energy generation and use, this one-of-a-kind resource clarifies everything from the basic structure of the industry to the potential-and risks-of new technologies.

Tremendous research is taking place to make photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting technology a reality.

With the inclusion of access to energy in the sustainable development goals, the role of energy to human existence was finally recognized.