Energy industries and utilities

Progressive increases in consumer demands along with aggressive industrial consumption led the world to proximate resource depletion, weather changes, soil and air degradation and water quality deterioration.

This book assesses recent developments in the analysis of agricultural policy and water resource management, and highlights the utility and theoretical rigor of quantitative methods for modeling agricultural production, market dynamics, and natural resource management.

This book addresses a question of importance for both theory and practice: Why are joint venture agreements preferred over other types of agreements such as concession agreements, service contracts, and production sharing agreements in the Qatari gas industry?

This book provides an up-to-date analysis of state-of-the-art concentrating solar power (CSP) generation.

This book develops new econometric models to analyze and forecast the world market price of oil.

This edited volume presents chapters on the dynamics of global climate change and global warming in the Middle East.

This book discusses the biorefinery of biomass feedstocks.

This book provides readers with cutting-edge techniques that can be applied to energy and environmental economics.

This book reveals key challenges to ensuring the secure and sustainable production and use of energy resources, and provides corresponding solutions.

This book documents the United States Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) shift from a rancher-dominated agency to an energy-dominated agency.

This book explores the timely topic of energy security and international relations between the European Union and the Russian Federation.

This book addresses the interactions between Germany's energy transition and the EU's energy policy framework.

This book introduces an analytic framework constructed upon the iterated Prisoners' Dilemma game to model and analyze transboundary water interactions along the Nile River.

After decades of stability, power systems are currently undergoing a rapid transition - demand patterns are evolving, while supply sources are shifting to renewable energies at an accelerated pace.

There is a strong need for further innovation and the development of viable renewable energy sources.

The Routledge Handbook of Consumer Protection and Behaviour in Energy Markets provides a comprehensive study of consumer protection and consumer behaviour in selected jurisdictions worldwide.

Scientists, regulators, and the general public are now more and more aware of the chemicals present in surface waters worldwide.

An investigation into the corruption of the electric industry and its role in polluting our planet.

This book examines the history, politics, and economics of alternative energy.

Ce livre dresse l’inventaire des atouts et des faiblesses du modèle énergétique français.

Discover the future of global finance!

This book discusses the requirements and preconditions for transforming the economy in order to achieve defined goals while maintaining and utilizing the efficiency of markets.

This book is a comprehensive assessment of the pivotal role that membrane technology plays in addressing ongoing environmental and sustainability challenges.

Material and Energy Recovery from Solid Waste for a Circular Economy describes solid waste to material and energy recovery to bridge the gap between theoretical possibilities and on-field criticalities.

This book contains selected papers from the 22nd World Renewable Energy Congress (WREC 2023) in Kuala Lumpur.

Despite the strong economic growth of the last decades, our modern global society is facing the existential threat of climate change.

Despite the strong economic growth of the last decades, our modern global society is facing the existential threat of climate change.

For fifty years, Australia has schemed to deny East Timor billions of dollars of oil and gas wealth.

Australias response to climate change must truly baffle outsiders.

The availability of low-cost energy from fossil fuels - in particular oil - has been the driving force behind postwar global economic growth, such that the petroleum industry has some of the world's largest companies.

This book comprehensively examines the development of Brazilian agriculture by focusing on the crops which evolved from national products to international commodities on a massive scale.

Britain was the first country to exploit atomic energy on a large scale, and at its peak in the mid-1960s, it had generated more electricity from nuclear power than the rest of the world combined.

Originally published in 1968 this important work covers a crucial period in Britain's economic history.

Working Guide to Drilling Equipment and Operations offers a practical guide to drilling technologies and procedures.

This analysis of decision-making in the energy field, especially electricity in the UK and Western Europe, provides a critique of the various claims that are made for different ways of approaching the critical need for vast amounts of new investment.

This comprehensive new dictionary comprises over 1300 definitions and brief articles to provide an extremely useful ready-reference work on solid, liquid and gaseous fuels, including information on the scenes of production of many fuels, such as major coal reserves and large oil and gas fields.

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

The impact of the oil and gas industry - paradoxically seen both as a blessing and a curse on socio-economic development - is a question at the heart of the comparative studies in this volume stretching from Northern Europe to the Caucasus, the Gulf of Guinea to Latin America.

This is a history of the abuses suffered by Africa through colonial, imperial and capitalistic scrambles for oil that have plagued the continent for centuries.

This is a history of the abuses suffered by Africa through colonial, imperial and capitalistic scrambles for oil that have plagued the continent for centuries.

With oil reaching $100 a barrel in January 2008 and the US facing challenges to dollar hegemony, few people would now deny that there is an energy crisis and that it is linked to economic uncertainty.

Are oil-rich countries prone to war?

This book explores business and governance solutions for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted by all UN member states in 2015.

This may be the most important book you or anyone else will read in the next fifty years.

Advances and Technology Development in Greenhouse Gases: Emission, Capture and Conversion is a comprehensive seven-volume set of books that discusses the composition and properties of greenhouse gases, and introduces different sources of greenhouse gases emission and the relation between greenhouse gases and global warming.

The recent escalation in the violent conflict in the Niger Delta has brought the region to the forefront of international energy and security concerns.