Energy industries and utilities

This book explores the implementation of the EU climate goals at the local and regional level.

This book explores the linkages among economic development, energy, and environment.

In recent years, developing countries have seen the emergence of successful and innovative firms, albeit often with state support.

As improving energy efficiency and increasing energy R&D investment may be the main means for China's industrial sector to achieve sustainable growth, this book attempts to unify energy use efficiency and energy R&D inputs into a standardized economic analysis framework.

The field of resources and environmental research has seen a surge in interest and development.

Under the contraction of global energy supply brought on by geopolitical situation, this timely book addresses how resource-scarce developing countries respond to challenges in energy security.

The global oil market is no longer solely influenced by the supply and demand of physical oil barrels.

This book combines the fundamentals of industrial organization theories based on microeconomic foundations, applied econometrics and environmental and natural resource economics in undertaking a comprehensive review of reforms of the power sector and its impact on industrial and socio-economic performance.

The rapid pace of economic development and urbanization in Asia have led to several major problems such as greenhouse gas emissions, mass consumption, and depletion of natural resources.

This edited volume delves into Sierra Leone's complex post-conflict landscape.

This book examines three fundamental factors that influence the economic growth and development of the world's 93 smallest economies, which together produced 1% of global GDP.

Water has become increasingly central to addressing multiple development and environmental objectives in the course of climate change.

This volume discusses the political economy of energy transition in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region.

This volume illustrates the relationship between environmental factors and economic development of countries from various angles.

Without any doubt, the current prevailing Linear Economy principle of take-make-dispose is inherently unsustainable: Raw materials are extracted, transformed into products, and discarded as waste after use.

This book systematically discusses the operational stages with high risk of CO2-induced corrosion in CCUS projects, and related measures for corrosion control.

This book argues that law has a vital role in shaping the electricity system to enable a more active role for consumers in liberalizsed electricity industries.

Providing a reliable and resilient supply of electric power to communities across the United States has always posed a complex challenge.

The Green Banking Transition Manual sets the green banking standard for academic and professional audiences.

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This book introduces ethnoeconomics, explaining how cultural, social, and historical factors influence economic behavior and decision-making.

Electric power is essential for the lives and livelihoods of all Americans, and the need for electricity that is safe, clean, affordable, and reliable will only grow in the decades to come.

The tropical zones are dominated by developing countries, which mainly face problematic environmental issues.

This book focuses on understanding Earth's geology, its mineral resources, their exploration, and management of the environment.

This book focuses on the evaluation, coordination, and effects of China's natural resource utilization.

This book makes a structural analysis of the neoliberal restructuring in the global electricity industry.

This book combines energy economics and big data modeling analysis in energy conversion and management and comprehensively introduces the relevant theories, key technologies, and application examples of the smart energy economy.

This book systematically investigates the depositional process and reservoir characteristics of organic-rich shales, including (1) The types and development mechanisms of organic-rich shales under ancient ocean and climatic backgrounds.

This book presents a detailed analysis of sustainable utilization of natural gas for low-carbon energy production.

This second volume is devoted to the disclosure of the peculiarities of sustainable development of business 4.

This book examines the background of fourth-generation biofuel production, use of genetically modified microalgae for production of fourth-generation biofuels; cultivation and harvesting of genetically modified microalgae; residue from biofuel extraction; health and environmental concerns of fourth-generation biofuels; regulations on cultivation and processing of the genetically modified algae; carbon dioxide sequestration; water footprint and current status and key challenges.

The undamming and restoration of rivers is a major component of our broader environmental movement.

This book is a compass for resource rich-developing countries, taking Mongolia as a case study.

This book presents artificial photosynthesis (AP) that facilitates the capture and storage of solar energy in order to meet our energy needs.

This book explores the vital role industrial hubs play in the economic catch-up of developing and emerging economies.

This book introduces ethnoeconomics, explaining how cultural, social, and historical factors influence economic behavior and decision-making.

The oil industry is set to change dramatically over the next decade with oil consumption needing to drop substantially to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement.

This textbook addresses the complexities associated with the practice of corporate finance in the transition to a Net-Zero world.

This book examines the role of trust in European-Russian energy relations and how some European countries have become dependent on Russia for energy.

This book highlights recent progress on the advancements toward optimization of major biorefinery processes, including biomass pretreatment and fractionation, saccharification of sugars, and conversion of sugars and lignin into fuels and chemical precursors.

The book titled "e;Energy Efficiency Improvements with Emission Abatement for Energy Sustainability"e; targets primarily academicians and policy-makers who are involved and practiced in the energy and environment field.

This book presents an in-depthempirical analysis of consumer response to alternative policies for energyconservation.

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.

Access to energy is essential for our daily lives, economic growth, environment, and sustainability.

This book provides an accurate evaluation of re-integration of Eurasia in the context of India's energy security and diplomacy which requires a normative shift as in the current Eurasian geopolitical and geo-economic matrix, the growing role of transit countries and their proximity with the Energy Complex Zone negates the fact that great powers or strong states control the Eurasian Heartland.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the legal and regulatory framework for the nuclear industry from an Asian perspective.

Wetlands are, by their very nature, ephemeral and transitional, which makes them challenging to characterize.

This book compiles peer-reviewed papers from 2024 6th International Conference on Resources and Environmental Research (ICRER 2024), which was held in Hong Kong, China, from 6 to 8 December.