Energy industries and utilities

This book explores the opportunities and barriers within the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC) framework of the Paris Agreement for low-carbon technology diffusion.

Stock market booms are cause for celebration.

This study presents a multi-disciplinary approach for investigating the interactions between groundwater and surface water in the semi-arid Hailiutu catchment in the Erdos Plateau, Northwest China.

Management Strategies for Water Use Efficiency and Micro Irrigated Crops presents new research and technologies for making better use of water resources for agricultural purposes.

Pipe failures in water distribution systems can have a serious impact and hence it's important to maintain the condition and integrity of the distribution system.

The last two decades have witnessed a dramatic expansion and intensification of mineral resource exploitation and development across the global south, especially in Latin America.

This handbook deals with various financial instruments, policies, and strategies in a policy-oriented approach for financing green energy projects.

The book is an edited collection of contributions by a distinguished international panel of academics on the main scientific, juridical, and economic aspects involved in the mitigation and adaptation processes imposed by climate change.

After the United Nations adopted the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to "e;end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity for all,"e; researchers and policy makers highlighted the importance of targeted investment in science, technology, and innovation (STI) to make tangible progress.

Wetlands are an important, and sadly diminishing, habitat in many parts of the world.

Since China has now become the world's largest energy consumer, its energy sector has understandably huge implications for the global economy.

This book sheds light on the topic of financial water risk by examining the modeling challenges associated with physical, regulatory, and reputational water risk in finance.

Corporate Governance and the Nuclear Industry explores the UK nuclear Legacy - governance issues associated with the decommissioning of a range of early-generation civil nuclear facilities.

This book contributes to a better understanding of the importance of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) principles for corporate value in the energy industry.

The Zambezi river is the fourth longest in Africa, crossing or bordering Zambia, Angola, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique.

Different physical or geophysical methods provide information about distinctive physical properties of the objects, e.

The book is based on experiences made by the author when participating in establishing operational solutions for E-Waste legislation in many countries across the globe.

Introduction to Fluid Mechanics, Sixth Edition, is intended to be used in a first course in Fluid Mechanics, taken by a range of engineering majors.

This book examines existing mineral fiscal policies covering income taxation, royalties, free carried and participative (community and government) interests and also highlights the impacts of these policies on the feasibility of mineral projects as well as on revenue and other benefits to the State.

Unser Ratgeber zu Steuern, Technik und Umsetzung!

Living with Water explores the perennial, dynamic relationship between water and the built environment in South Asia.

The books in this set, originally published between 1927 and 1996 discuss the oil industry and its impact on the world economy in the twentieth century.

Is the 'natural resource curse' destiny?

Along with windstorms, floods are the most common and widespread of all natural disasters.

Addressing the major issues arising from the power ascribed to the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), this book reflects the bredth, expertise and multifaceted viewpoints of the contributors: members of OPEC itself, industry representatives, and scholars and energy specialists from the USA, Europe and the Middle East.

Pollution of water sources with emerging contaminants (micropollutants) is a fact known worldwide.

This book discusses the balance of priorities within the Water-Energy-Food (WEF) nexus and its impact on policy development and implementation, highlighting innovative perspectives in adopting a holistic approach to identify, analyse and manage the nexus component interdependencies.

The Economic Development of the USSR (1982) examines the economic advances the Soviet Union made as the first major economy to adopt full-scale socialist planning.

This book is an unprecedented consideration of the challenges of what we can do for generations yet to come.

Using Africa as a context for research, new conceptual framing is proposed to make sense of the challenges of designing effective organizations to pursue socio-economic development.

A comprehensive overview of trading and risk management in the energy markets Energy Trading and Risk Management provides a comprehensive overview of global energy markets from one of the foremost authorities on energy derivatives and quantitative finance.

Wetlands are an important, and sadly diminishing, habitat in many parts of the world.

A food system comprises the entire range of actors and interlinked activities related to food production, processing, distribution, marketing and trade, preparation, consumption, and disposal.

This book is a useful guide to employing remote sensing data to explain and illustrate interactions between atmospheric, oceanic and hydrological processes, incorporating the latest developments in the field.

This comprehensive book presents the latest advances in chemical EOR, considered to be an efficient technique to recover bypassed oil and residual oil trapped in reservoirs.

This work traces the development of residential natural gas markets in the United States from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present.

Renewable hydrogen produced using solar energy to split water is the energy fuel of the future.

Two centuries after the original invention, the Stirling engine is now a commercial reality as the core component of domestic CHP (combined heat and power) - a technology offering substantial savings in raw energy utilization relative to centralized power generation.

This book aims to solve some key problems in the decision and optimization procedure for power market organizers and participants in data-driven approaches.

Meet Michael Skelly, the man boldly harnessing wind energy that could power America's future and break its fossil fuel dependence in this ';essential, compelling look into the future of the nation's power grid' (Bryan Burrough, author of The Big Rich).

This collection of papers examines water management in two of the worlds prominent, arid transboundary areas facing similar challenges.

This book answers the question: is Polish property tax legislation ready for the upcoming energy transformation?

Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging Mechanism for Oil Spills delivers the critical tool needed to understand the latest technology in radar imaging of oil spills, particularly microwave radar as a main source to understand analysis and applications in the field of marine pollution.

This report evaluates the energy impacts of the dramatic increase in the production of shale gas and light tight oil in the United States.

On February 22, 1895, a naval force laid siege to Brass, the chief city of the Ijo people of Nembe in Nigeria's Niger Delta.

Rising fuel prices during recent years and the threat of global warming have reinforced public and scientific interest in the issue of sustainable energy, with the term sustainability understood as having economic, environmental and social dimensions.

This is the only book series devoted to explaining the full range of specialized areas required of water and wastewater plant operators.

Using the water footprint concept, this impactful book aids our understanding of how we can reduce water consumption and pollution to sustainable levels.