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 examines the energy footprints of various industrial sectors, including the bio- and hydrogen energy systems, and explores the scope for improvement, particularly in India.
This book takes the reader into some of the most intransigent social, economic, and political issues that impact achieving sustainable development in Asia and the Pacific.
This book aims to solve some key problems in the decision and optimization procedure for power market organizers and participants in data-driven approaches.
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.
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.
This book presents a critical review of the status of energy security in Asia and suggests how a country or a region collectively can achieve energy security in two broad aspects.
This book is the first comprehensive assessment of the state of low-carbon investments in Asia, analyzing the rationales, mandates and public-private financing activities.
This Pivot offers a comprehensive cross-country study of the effects of large-scale resource extraction in Asia Pacific, considering how large-scale extractive industries engender contentious social, political and economic questions.
This book focuses on value addition to various waste streams, which include industrial waste, agricultural waste, and municipal solid and liquid waste.
This book explores the opportunities and barriers within the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC) framework of the Paris Agreement for low-carbon technology diffusion.
This volume focuses on the topic of energy transitions in the coal mining industries of China and Japan by adopting a Sino-Japanese comparative approach in area studies to examine the experiences between the two major East Asian economies.
This volume goes beyond a conventional analysis of Asia's energy relationships and explores the premise that energy relations in Asia in the 21st century should reinforce mutual interdependence.
In this book, a number of long-term energy scenarios are developed for Nigeria considering the impact of vital factors that may influence energy policies in the country's future energy system.
De la conjugación entre el planeta y el mundo —aspecto físico versus aspecto social— es que nace este trabajo, que combina, de un lado, los elementos básicos del movimiento de electrones a través de un medio con-ductor y, por otro, la interacción de los mercados de energía dentro de un modelo regido por la libertad y la competencia, a la vez reglado por completo y centralmente controlado.
The book details the innovative TERM (The Enormous Regional Model) approach to regional and national economic modeling, and explains the conversion from a comparative-static to a dynamic model.
This book discusses, the issues with respect to consumption of water by the marginalised (poor) sections of the society and the efficacy of using pricing policy as a tool for overall demand management of household water.
River Flow 2024 features keynote lectures and contributed papers presented at the 12th International Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics, held from September 2nd to 6th, 2024, in Liverpool.
This publication proposes a new independent regulatory body for Indonesia's electricity sector, in particular for investment planning, procurement, tariff setting, and electrification.
Cambodia's transport sector plays a critical role in the country's economic development by supporting growth in key sectors such as agriculture, tourism, manufacturing, and construction.
This handbook serves as a guide to deploying battery energy storage technologies, specifically for distributed energy resources and flexibility resources.
This smart metering road map summarizes the proposed activities and plans for the Nepal Electricity Authority on the implementation of a smart electricity grid.
This study was conducted by the Asian Development Bank to assess the impact of projects involving the construction of dams on aquatic biodiversity in Nepal.
This energy sector assessment, strategy, and road map documents the status and strategic priorities of the Government of the Philippines in the energy sector.
The story of Lanka Electricity Company (Pvt) Limited (LECO) of Sri Lanka is how one of the earliest examples of electricity industry reforms in 1983 turned into a landmark example for South Asia and beyond.
Maldives has no proven fossil fuel reserves, but it has abundant renewable energy sources such as solar, wind, and ocean (tidal, wave, and ocean thermal), and has the potential to produce green hydrogen fuel using renewable energy.
This publication provides guidance on how governments and utilities in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) can develop sustainable power development plans based on current international best practices.
This publication evaluates water security in Mongolia and provides analyses based from other documents and studies for a multidimensional overview of the country's water resources system and management.