Energy industries and utilities

The markets for electricity, gas and temperature have distinctive features, which provide the focus for countless studies.

This book examines the political and conceptual metamorphosis of China's oil industry from self-reliance to internationalization.

This book looks at the emergence of China as a major importer and consumer of energy as well as examines contemporary issues within the Chinese oil industry.

This book focuses solely on the issues of agriculture and forest productivity analysis with advanced modeling approaches to bring solutions to food-insecure regions of South and Southeast Asia.

Energy may be the most important factor that will influence the shape of society in the 21st century.

With Asia, - especially China and India, - leading world energy consumption, Asian energy trends are now of global interest, with deep implications for the world economy and geopolitics.

Energy consumption level is a significant indicator in measuring a nation's economic, scientific and technological progress.

This book sheds light on how global warming has caused the ongoing environmental disaster in the Arctic, namely its melting.

This book focuses mainly on strategic decision making at a global level, which is rarely considered in approaches to sustainability.

Modeling the dynamics of energy markets has become a challenging task.

'The author leavens his discussion of a transition to a sustainable energy mix with the views of three prominent energy experts; following this is an introduction to aGoldilocks policy and a detailed discussion of its obstacles.

This book is an introduction to oil and gas designed to be both accessible to absolute beginners who know nothing about the subject, and at the same time interesting to people who work in one area (such as drilling or seismic exploration) and would like to know about other areas (such as production offshore, or how oil and gas were formed, or what can go wrong).

Most scientists now believe that carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere are rapidly increasing, and that emissions from the burning of fossil fuels is a principal cause.

This book provides a concise but rigorous appraisal about the future of nuclear power and the presumed nuclear renaissance.

This easy-to-read book presents an elementary yet comprehensive introduction to modern energy economics.

This book addresses growing tensions in Northeast Asia, notably between North Korea and China.

This book introduces empirical methods for analyzing energy markets.

This book offers a new perspective about the Gulf Arab states entering a post-oil era by looking at the political factors behind the green transformation.

This volume is an energy-tailored sequel to the research on the Arctic carried out at MGIMO University.

This book evaluates China's energy diplomacy across the globe and how it transcends the barriers to maintain both its security and its Chinese characteristics.

This book is a compilation of selected papers from the Fourth International Technical Symposium on Deepwater Oil and Gas Engineering & The Third International Youth Forum on Gas Hydrate, held in Qingdao, China in December 2021.

This volume spotlights some of the most important economic issues confronting today's emerging developing countries.

This book unpacks the politics of climate change in Australia in the context of successive conservative Coalition governments resisting any moves to mitigate emissions and as local communities and transnational corporations struggle with each other to control the transition to a sustainable energy future.

This book focuses solely on the issues of agriculture and forest productivity analysis with advanced modeling approaches to bring solutions to food-insecure regions of South and Southeast Asia.

This book explores the Arctic as a rapidly evolving phenomenon in international affairs of a rising number of stakeholders.

This book provides a relatively whole view of data-driven decision-making methods for energy service innovation and energy system optimization.

This book has 11 chapters which systematically introduce the latest achievements in scientific research and technological application of the forage industry in China, and also cover the laws and polices related to forage production.

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

The book is a study of the cooperation of Brazil and India on renewable energy.

This volume analyses the process and structure of ecotaxes in India to bring forth its rationale, application and incidence on emerging environmental problems on the backdrop of the environmental issues confronted by the Indian economy.

This book provides several up-to-date empirical policy-oriented studies on assessing the impacts of climate change on various economic sectors and the role of renewable energy resources in mitigating pollution and climate change.

This book explores the interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary fields of energy systems, occupant behavior, thermal comfort, air quality and economic modelling across levels of building, communities and cities, through various data analytical approaches.

This book shows the push and pull effects between resources, human security and conflicts in Africa.

Water, Energy and Food are the very basic necessities of human life and all the three of them are interconnected with each other, this connection being called the Water-Energy-Food nexus.

This book discusses imaginary future generations and how current decision-making will influence those future generations.

Food systems involve a range of activities concerning food production, processing, distribution, marketing and trade, preparation, consumption and disposal.

This book gathers contributions from a multidisciplinary research team comprised of control engineering and economics researchers and formed to address a central interdisciplinary social issue, namely economically enabled energy management.

This book comprehensively and systematically introduces the principles, key technologies and main types of new energy utilization based on the analysis and prospect of global energy development trend and energy transformation law.

This book aims to make the best use of fine-grained smart meter data to process and translate them into actual information and incorporated into consumer behavior modeling and distribution system operations.

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 investigates the overall natural gas reform performance of Turkey, addressing both shortfalls and setbacks that have prevented Turkey from the fulfillment of the regulatory implementation since 2001, and how the prospectively liberalised natural gas market can effectively operate at all levels.

This book highlights the latest advances in waste management, resource recovery and resource circulation in various countries, with a special emphasis on India.

The book focuses on the challenges faced by urban areas in the context of handling waste in an environmentally and socially acceptable manner.

This book highlights Thailand's growing demand for clean energy from coal.

This book offers a multidisciplinary analysis of approach in the field of energy studies of Japan, examining post-closure coal mining towns in Japan and their gentrification.

This book covers a variety of topics regarding environmental practices in our day-to-day lives, as well as topics concerning sustainable development as a broader concept embracing ecological, social, and economic aspects to improve the quality of life for people around the world.

This book deals with the economic modelling of water at the global, national and sub-national levels.

This book highlights the Social Life Cycle Assessment (SLCA) of the energy and textile sectors.

This book addresses energy footprints in the food and textile sectors.

This book deals with the energy footprints of biorefineries and the hotel and buildings sector.