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By Omran Al-Kuwari
January 14, 2025
This book analyses the role of liquified natural gas in a decarbonising world, and presents the most significant energy transition options and implications for the liquified natural gas industry. Major investments and developments in technology have been made in recent years in an attempt to ...
By Hassan Qudrat-Ullah
December 05, 2024
This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the role of fossil-based economies in the global energy transition towards sustainability. The book’s main themes include understanding the challenges and opportunities inherent in transitioning from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources, ...
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By Michael Kalis
November 22, 2024
The Energy Trilemma in the Baltic Sea Region provides insight into the energy trilemma in the Baltic Sea Region. Energy Trilemma in the Baltic Sea Region has undergone significant transformation in the last number of years. Energy actors in the region are struggling to reconcile new questions ...
By Ranjan Datta, Margot Hurlbert, William Marion
October 08, 2024
This book examines how current energy and water management processes affect Indigenous communities in North America, with a specific focus on Canada. Currently, there is no known Indigenous community-led strategic environmental assessment (ICSEA) tool for developing community-led solutions for ...
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By Ngozi Chinwa Ole, Eduardo G. Pereira, Peter Kayode Oniemola, Gustavo Kaercher Loureiro
October 08, 2024
This book investigates the role of law in enabling and addressing the barriers to the development of off-grid renewable electricity (OGRE). The limited development of OGRE is ascribed to a host of social, economic, and legal barriers, including the problem of initial capital costs, existing ...
By Lee Towers, Matthew Cotton
October 07, 2024
This book explores the interplay between intergenerational justice and intra-generational justice using nuclear waste management as a consistent case to explore these themes. Lee Towers and Matthew Cotton examine the issue of intergenerational justice from a social scientific perspective, drawing...
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By Gilles Debizet, Marta Pappalardo, Frédéric Wurtz
May 27, 2024
This book draws on social science analysis to understand the ongoing dynamics within and surrounding local energy communities in reliably electrified countries: Belgium, Canada, Colombia, France, Germany, India, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. It offers a comprehensive ...
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By Magali Dreyfus, Aki Suwa
January 29, 2024
Local Energy Governance: Opportunities and Challenges for Renewable and Decentralised Energy in France and Japan examines the extent of the energy transition taking place at a local level in France and Japan, two countries that share ambitious targets regarding the reduction of GHG emissions, their...
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By Paola Velasco Herrejón, Breffní Lennon, Niall P. Dunphy
December 01, 2023
Living with Energy Poverty: Perspectives from the Global North and South expands our collective understanding of energy poverty and deepens our recognition of the phenomenon by engaging with the lived experiences of energy-poor households across different contexts. Understanding the lived ...
By Bertug Ozarisoy, Hasim Altan
September 28, 2023
This book explores energy consumption and thermal comfort in the social housing sector in the Eastern Mediterranean basin. This book presents a novel methodological framework for the optimisation of post-war social housing developments in the Eastern Mediterranean climate. The authors draw on ...
By Elisabeth Marta Tómmerbakk
May 31, 2023
This book addresses some of the controversies and uncertainties associated with reducing the extensive exploitation of fossil fuels due to their role in global warming. Elisabeth Marta Tómmerbakk explores why a transition towards a post-carbon society is so difficult to accomplish by examining how...
By Avidan Kent
May 31, 2023
This book will discuss the legal tools offered by international law that can support foreign direct investment (FDI) in the renewable energy sector in the Global South. Promoting and increasing investment in the renewable energy sector is crucial for limiting global temperature rise to 1.5°C and ...