John / Rübbelke Sustainable Energy

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-1-136-89960-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 176 Seiten

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.

Renewable energy is seen as an effective means to address several problems simultaneously, including climate change, exploitation of non-renewable resources, the high volatility of energy prices on the global markets, dependency on fuels from politically unstable countries (energy-insecurity) and the transfer of wealth to these countries.

This book addresses these and related topics including the diffusion of renewable technologies. Policies to induce sustainable energy use and production are discussed by researchers from a range of different disciplines. The result is a use-oriented and multidisciplinary perspective concerning policies to support sustainable energy use and production, which will be of great use to researchers and academics alike.

Autoren/Hrsg.

John, Klaus D.

Rübbelke, Dirk T. G.

Rübbelke, Dirk

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Energie- & Versorgungswirtschaft
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Sustainable Energy: Challenges and Perspectives 2. Germany on the Way to a Full Supply on the Basis of Renewable Energy 3. The Supergrid: 100% Renewable Electricity Supply for Europe and its Neighbourhood 4. Promoting Renewable Energies: Incentives for Emission trading? 5. Command and Control or Market Based? 6. Explaining Environmental Significant Consumption

Über Autor(innen)

Klaus John is Professor of Economic Policy at Chemnitz
University of Technology.

Dirk Rübbelke is a Senior Research Fellow at CICERO, the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, Oslo, Norway