Sustainable Energy (Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 041556686X ISBN 13: 9780415566865

Publisher: Routledge, 2010

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

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

Dirk Rübbelke is Ikerbasque Research Professor at the Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) and IKERBASQUE, the Basque Foundation for Science

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 041556686X
• ISBN 13: 9780415566865
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: John Klaus D., Rübbelke Dirk